bedlin88
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/palin-accuses-president-of-shuck-and-jive-on-libya/2012/10/24/cd0616b4-1df6-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html
Personally I'm not really sure if she knew it was considered racist when she used it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/palin-accuses-president-of-shuck-and-jive-on-libya/2012/10/24/cd0616b4-1df6-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html
CNN commentator Roland Martin responded by issuing a tutorial on the racially loaded nature of those words:
“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.
According to a story in Newsday, “The 1994 book ‘Juba to Jive, a Dictionary of African-American Slang,’ says ‘shuck and jive’ dates back to the 1870s and was an ‘originally southern ‘Negro’ expression for clowning, lying, pretense.’”
Personally I'm not really sure if she knew it was considered racist when she used it.