*Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin released a statement on her Facebook page accusing President Obama of engaging in “shuck and jive shtick” regarding last month’s attack in Benghazi, Libya.
“Why the lies? Why the cover up? Why the dissembling about the cause of the murder of our ambassador on the anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil? We deserve answers to this. President Obama’s shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end,” Palin wrote.
“Shuck and jive” is historically a racially-tinged expression. According to the user-submitted Urban Dictionary, the term “originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards.”
As Politico points out, this isn’t the first time the phrase has come up and inspired controversy. Several years ago, Andrew Cuomo, then New York’s Attorney General, used the expression while campaigning for Hillary Rodham Clinton. “You can’t shuck and jive at a press conference,” Cuomo said. “All those moves you can make with the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.”
Cuomo was promptly blasted by CNN’s Roland Martin, who wrote: “‘Shucking and jiving’ have long been words used as a negative assessment of African Americans, along the lines of a ‘foot shufflin’ Negro.’ In fact, I don’t recall ever hearing the phrase used in reference to anyone white.”
Earlier this week, conservative pundit Ann Coulter inspired outrage when she called President Obama a “retard” following his Florida debate with GOP challenger Mitt Romney. An athlete with Down Syndrome wrote an open letter to Coulter in response. “Come on Ms. Coulter,” he wrote. “You aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?”
Another stupid ignorant hoecake with nothing to add to any conversation trying to be relevent Sarah you are now and always have been a NON factor Please go away. Go back to backwoods hillbilly poor white trash hole you crawled out of tramp
That’s what “wanna be’s’ do, they don’t have the intelligence or talents to be what others inspire and succeed in, they can’t stand in the spotlight on their own merits, so they hate and commiserate in the peanut gallery and throw shells at the one’s who do! In this case, she couldn’t be the dancer or the teacher, she couldn’t be the police officer or security, she couldn’t be the president OR the vice president so she’s peeling peanuts!!!
sarsh palin sit your a—- down, you had one black man in colloge you can’t have Obama has a respectful wife not poor white trash like you. now go fu—- and shuck and jive that you white folk are nothing but devil’s and on sunday in church playing church because God can not be in you people, you white’s are mad because God have made a Black Man Smart. and his name is OBAMA,Now How You Like That sarah or should i say stupid.
Caribou Barbie needs to shut up!!! she knows DAM WELL! she could not handle any foreign afairs for the USA, trying to clown Pres Obama!! this coming from a dummy who said she can see Russia from her house!!! REALLY NOW?????? I did not ahve tos ee the HBO movie Game Change to know this twit has the brain cell of a gnat( sorry to offend all gnats everywhere- LOL!!! )
The next thing I expect from Sarah Palin is a nudie shot. She has done everything else to get attention.
notice Reds-neck and musbwhitey to be rightey, never comment on anything that is blatantly damaging toward people of color, never say something like “this bytch is crazy”. the are very quite. yet, when it has anything to do with all that is good for people of color, they gotz all manner of white rhetoric spewing from their mouths…punk bythches
This is as inconsequential as Trump’s silly announcement.
She certainly knows the racial connotations but when we can have a VPOTUS talking about “putting ya’ll back in chains” and having “clean and articulate” black president, I can’t make much of her commentary.
Get the fuck off of our messageboard trick! Your kind is not welcomed here.
i knew i could lure your bitchacidness out of your fucn sludge pile u piece of dog shty….
I never knew the history behind the expression (and never really gave a rat’s hairy gray ass about it either, since I do not use it.).
Why can’t this ignorant woman just go away?! She proved that she was an idiot 4 years ago when she opened her mouth. I see that she still hasn’t learned.
Sarah is enjoying this attention. It keeps her relevant in the world, I guess.
Benghazi,Ambassador,Cover up..ok..open up the files of JFK !! thats the real cover up!!