Fox anchor uses J-word about Lady Gaga's music

Would anyone under 60 or 70 years of age - who isn't a language nerd - know that?

I wouldn't expect them to.

but ... Ms. Capel seems to know the word and its meaning. It's perfect for the context - properly offensive to everyone.

I'd love to (NOT) know what she's claiming she thought the meaning was.

I'm guessing she's from the southern US - and, yes, that is my own bias showing.

Sho' nuff! According to Wikipedia, she "is a native of Florence, Kentucky who later moved to Missouri".

Have things improved so much in Dixie that people of her age have never heard of the word "jigaboo"? (or "even that it is a word"?)

My guess (again) is that if the word is still used anywhere, it's in the southern US.

From what I see on FB, similar language is still in regular use in some populations there (and Kentucky is an area that spawns some comments that make me blink when it comes to casual racism).

I don't think you have to be a language nerd. I have seen it in plenty of American novels of various vintages, and I heard a school friend's father say it in 1969 approx, all the way over here in England.

A quick Google:

1. Memoirs of a Winner by Gary Ward Scott (2007)

"Some time later it was disparagingly called "jigaboo" music. Kids seven or eight years my junior were already tuning in to the Negro radio stations late at ..."

2. Blacks in the Army Air Forces During World War II: The Problems of Race by Alan M. Osur (1986)

"... the use of uncomplimentary names such as "jigaboo" and "nigger" instilled resentment; there was a great emotional conflict over interracial dating; ..."

There's Colorado hip-hop artists Jeff Campbell's one-man show, Who Killed Jigaboo Jones?

yeah but you're a word nerd

seriously

Some people have such limited vocabularies and so little interest in language that it's becomes boring to speak with them.

I am intrigued by her assertion that "she didn't even know it was a word".

You're much nicer than I am.

I'd just call it a lie.

hopefully someone IRL has rolled their eyes at her

I can honestly say that although I have a very vague recollection of hearing or reading the word before (yeeeears ago) I had not a clue as to its origins.

Had never heard the word before.
Did Capel know that it was offensive? Unless something shows up to prove otherwise we are left with her being taken upon her own word.

Deeper search found her background traces back to Cleveland Ohio: http://www.fox8.com/author/kristi-capel/
"Kristi is excited to be at Fox 8! She co-anchors with Wayne Dawson and Stefani Schaefer on 'Fox 8 News In the Morning.'

Kristi grew up in Northern Kentucky, graduating from Heritage Academy; but, she does have some roots here in Cleveland. Her father grew up in Bedford and graduated from Bedford High School. Kristi's grandparents owned a store in Bedford called, 'Capel's Country Corner,' which some of you may remember."


As to Florence Kentucky it's a short distance southwest of Cincinnati, not quite the deep deep south, although I'm sure there may be some down there, as just about anywhere, who exhibit racist language, attitude and behavior.



As for other parts...I find the thread title sort of misleading. Yeah, she is a Fox anchor, however being an anchor on a local station (Cleveland, Ohio) does not mean the station in general is following the same weirdities of the Fox News Network thing.

Apparently she was once known as America's Hottest Weather Anchor: http://www.bustedcoverage.com/2008/01/24/kristi-capel-is-americas-hottest-weather-anchor/

I'm familiar with the word, but have no idea if she did. It seems odd that she would suddenly create such a word out of thin air.

I've known that word all my life. And I think Archie Bunker used it at least once. I would not employ a person who talks like that.

what a fine young lady

educated at a Christian academy and attending Evangel University on a volleyball scholarship

http://heritageacademy.hfcus.com/alumni/



she knows it's a word

she's got no excuse, unless she admits that her mom made a deal with satan to give her daughter extreme hotness in exchange for any measurable intelligence.
Don't kid yourelf, it was scripted as a test to find out how much **** hotness can get away -with

I didn't even know who this goofy ditz is, so i had to go look her up. More proof, which was not needed, that one can make a career in broadcast "journalism" without a brain or a clue.

The latest trend is to buy up all these really great looking girls and then give them pundit responsibilities based upon a series of transparent chops.
They look great on camera so they can say any stupid thing they wish and still have people believe them. Both Fox and CNN have their "chickies" and their numbers seem to be getting like clots of partisan lemmings.
Weather girls even have "uniforms". Is it jut me, but I see the "broadcast meteorologists" seem to be dressed in the wrap around costumes that could, if it were still on the air, be used as Enterprise Uniforms all you needed was a Starfleet badge at the cleavage.

Ive been on the road a bit and the Southern female meteorologists on TV look more like Daisy Dukes .

I don't mind the look but Jeez-Loueez, how bout some searches for talent that doesn't involve only a swim suit competition.
Are they stamping em out in some lab in Dubuque?

I noticed the same thing in Houston. That's why I was surprised when one station demoted one of these Daisys to put on a very heavy middle aged man. But Daisy went to the station next door and got the same work, so everybody is happy.

I've heard the word before. It's deeply racist. I know someone who brought back a tape of racist songs from America in the early 80s just to let us know what it was like over there.

One of the songs was called N**** hating me.

It uses the word a lot and says MLK has a 'baboon mouth,' which basically sums up the whole song. It's inconceivable that anyone could use that word and not know what it means. This is the same Fox News that employed an "expert" to say Birmingham was 100% Moslem, a no go area for non Moslems and practiced Sharia Law, as did Tottenham.

Fox anchor uses J-word about Lady Gaga's music

Jackass?

Jackoff?

Jugalo?

Jingoistic?