Posted on 02/25/2015 1:24:12 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Cleveland TV anchor Kristi Capel has been temporarily taken off the air in the wake of using a racial slur during a live broadcast on Monday.
Cleveland.com reported that Capel did not appear on the Fox 8 morning show on Wednesday, and would not appear on Thursday or Friday of this week either. She will return to the broadcast on Monday, March 2.
While praising Lady Gaga's performance of a "Sound of Music" medley at the 2015 Oscars on Sunday, Capel said during the Monday broadcast, "It's hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music... She has a gorgeous voice."
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Or just for being redundant :)
I kinda did too. I wondered where she even heard it before.
She looks like she is half white-——kinda like the President.
Send me a link. I’ll check it out for you.
My father uses it, but then he’s going to be 85 years old in May. Plus, he only uses it in private conversation with me, certainly not in front of a microphone.
My guess is the anchor has had or does now have an older black boyfriend who she has heard use that while in the company of other blacks. So she listened, and she learned what to say, but not when to say it.
I’m a non-native speaker, and I have NO idea what it means. I didn’t even know it was offensive. I like that combination of consonants and vowels (ji-ga-boo) the same way I like words like dingaling and bupkis. Is there somewhere I can get a list of terms and the minority that is likely to be offended by them?
30 years ago, I went to a record store. A young black man came in wearing a shirt that said “jigaboo” on the front, and “spearchucker” on the back..We were both looking at Jazz records. I finally couldn’t contain myself! I started laughing, and asked him where he’d gotten the shirt. He started laughing too. We talked, and I found he was studying Mechanical Engineering at Case, as my Father had. Nice young man!
I’m betting she blond.
Guess she just didn’t take a shine to it.
- Kristi Capel -
I believe her.
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Jiggaboo Jones be proud!
Lord, I have not heard that term in years. American slang can be so descriptive.
LOL! The black co-anchor sitting there with her knew what it meant.
Not to be confused with Juggalo.
was that Tina P??? weather girl? just curious.
Bttt
She most likely meant to say “Lady Gaga was gettin’ jiggy with it”.
That’s Wayne Dawson.
He’s been around a long time, I remember him from when I lived there and it’s been 33 yrs since I moved away.
That is a racial slur? Please you got to do better than that.
Do you know the slang meaning of the word "dingaling?" Answer
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