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To: jessduntno

Isn’t “mumbo jumbo” racist?


3 posted on 01/13/2009 4:11:06 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Racist like Obama’s typical white person Grandmother?


4 posted on 01/13/2009 4:12:06 PM PST by exist
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“Isn’t “mumbo jumbo” racist?”

Couldn’t use Voodoo Economics”


5 posted on 01/13/2009 4:12:06 PM PST by jessduntno (Barack - Kenyan for "High Wind, Big Thunder, No Rain")
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To: A_Former_Democrat
I was just wondering what the reaction would have been if a House Republican had used the phrase.

You decide. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia:
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According to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary:

Mumbo Jumbo is a noun and is the name of a grotesque idol said to have been worshipped by some tribes. In its figurative sense, Mumbo Jumbo is an object of senseless veneration or a meaningless ritual.

“Black Mumbo” and “Black Jumbo” are also used as names for the parents of Little Black Sambo. [3]

8 posted on 01/13/2009 4:14:12 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: A_Former_Democrat

You beat me.


11 posted on 01/13/2009 4:17:02 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“Isn’t “mumbo jumbo” racist?”

No.

But ‘Jumbo Gumbo’ might be...

:0)


17 posted on 01/13/2009 4:36:00 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

“Isn’t “mumbo jumbo” racist?”
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Only if you order it at Denny’s.


28 posted on 01/13/2009 6:20:01 PM PST by Canedawg (I look at the country as it is today and...I am scunnered. -G. M. FRASER)
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