[toddlintown]

The jig is up!”

That was a really, really unfortunate choice of words.
*******

Really? Explain it to me.

[Candor7]

"The jig is up!”>>>>>>>>>> Noun: any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping, a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it, a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water, music in three-four time for dancing a jig.

Political correctness. It is insidious.

One way that liberal fascism works it's black magic.

LOL.

[sinanju]

Apparently, in the bad old days “jig” was interchangeable with the n-word.

How do I know this? 1989’s “Harlem Nights” set in the thirties used it liberally.

I also recall “jigaboo” being spat out by one of the baddies in 1984’s “Police Academy” (Bubba Smith then proceeds to tear him a new one).

And they say Hollywood can’t teach history.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Really? Explain it to me.”

jig is an often used shorthand for jigaboo, a terribly insulting word to blacks.