News anchor taken off air after calling Lady Gaga song "jigaboo music".

[ShootSpeeders]

If she had called rock and roll "cracker music" would she be disciplined?

Ohio anchor taken off air after Lady Gaga jiga--- comment - NY Daily News

feb 25 2015
The Ohio news anchor who used a racial slur while discussing Lady Gaga's Oscars performance has been temporarily taken off the air.

Fox 8 Cleveland news anchor Kristi Capel "will not be anchoring 'Fox 8 News in the Morning' for the remainder of the week," the station said in a statement Wednesday. She will be back behind the desk March 2.

Capel came under fire after calling Lady Gaga songs "jiga--- music" on the air Monday morning, referring to a racist term for African Americans.

Capel, a former Miss Missouri USA, apologized on Twitter and during Tuesday's broadcast. She said she did not even know it was a word.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

Have to admit it wasn't very smart of her to say that. You wonder what people are thinking sometimes.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Is it possible she didn't understand the term's definition and simply used it onomatopoetically?

 

[Roadrunner]

Is it possible she didn't understand the term's definition and simply used it onomatopoetically?

The first time I saw the video I thought she was a light African-American.

She looks lighter in this one.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

If she had called rock and roll "cracker music" would she be disciplined?

Ohio anchor taken off air after Lady Gaga jiga--- comment - NY Daily News

feb 25 2015
The Ohio news anchor who used a racial slur while discussing Lady Gaga's Oscars performance has been temporarily taken off the air.

Fox 8 Cleveland news anchor Kristi Capel "will not be anchoring 'Fox 8 News in the Morning' for the remainder of the week," the station said in a statement Wednesday. She will be back behind the desk March 2.

Capel came under fire after calling Lady Gaga songs "jiga--- music" on the air Monday morning, referring to a racist term for African Americans.

Capel, a former Miss Missouri USA, apologized on Twitter and during Tuesday's broadcast. She said she did not even know it was a word.

Rock and roll isn't cracker music.

But, its a fox affiliate and they have very low standards. She'll be back.

 

[Rozman]

Sounds like something one of my Uncles would have said back around 1958

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Worth mentioning in the interest of simple fairness, if blacks are gonna popularize "******" or "nigga" and other racist terms, you can't be surprised when they start popping up in popular usage. My thought is as obscure as jigaboo is, chances are she heard it from some movie like Spike Lee's "School Daze." If you popularize a word, you can't then raise hell when someone uses it.

Jiggaboo, a really dark skinned black person with strong negroid features (ie. big lips, wide nose, nappy hair)
1. in the spike lee movie "school daze" the light skinned sorority sisters refer to the darker sisters of a different sorority as ugly "jiggaboos"
Urban Dictionary jiggaboo

 

[Moonglow]

Sound like something one of my Uncles would have said back around 1958

Or spearchunker....

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Spearchucker adn such are obviously racist. Jiggaboo though is really rare and obscure. There's a related word I've heard sung by some Latin salsa sorta dancer on old Bugs Bunny cartoons where she goes "Chikka boo chikka boo" or something like that. So calling Lady Gaga's music jiggaboo thinking it means whatever sort of music she was refering to isn't like beyond the pale or saying it's "nigga music" or something more overtly racist.

From a business pov I can see their decision having logic and merit. From everyone else's though it's much ado about nothing. Lady Gaga's obviously white, calling her a racist anti-black name wouldn't make any sense.

Plus her co-anchor was black. Think she's gonna hurl racist epithets sitting next to a black guy?

 

[Silhouette]

And the witch-hunt on free speech continues...

 

[Rozman]

Sound like something one of my Uncles would have said back around 1958

Or spearchunker....

That would have been one of my Aunt's.... they were pretty feisty.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

This oversensitivity to words has to stop. If people know you're gonna stop doing everythign else to have a hissy fit because you used a naughty word, guess what they're gonna do A LOT more?

 

[Nutz]

And the witch-hunt on free speech continues...

How so? An anchor doesn't represent the values of their employer?

 

[aaronleland]

When I was a kid my stepdad used to call Nirvana jigaboo music. We showed him a picture of the band members, and asked him which one he thought was black.

 

[Roadrunner]

This oversensitivity to words has to stop. If people know you're gonna stop doing everythign else to have a hissy fit because you used a naughty word, guess what they're gonna do A LOT more?

All this PC bullshit needs to stop.

People are just too fuckin' sensitive, and, in most cases, hypocritical too.

 

[rightwinger]

Coming from Fox, it was probably on a cue card

 

[Silhouette]

And the witch-hunt on free speech continues...

How so? An anchor doesn't represent the values of their employer?

Your avatar says it all bro. Eric Cartman: when he was drunk with power and clamping down on everyone and every little thing he saw as a challenge to "ra-spect mah authoritah!"

 

[Mad Scientist]

Lady Gaga is Jiggaboo music.

I've been forced to listen to her "music" a few times and all I can say is that it sucks. There's nothing she's done as Gaga that makes me wanna' listen twice. She used to have talent before she stole the whole "Missing Persons" act from Dale Bozzio.

 

[bodecea]

And the witch-hunt on free speech continues...

The woman got arrested?

 

[Rozman]

Coming from Fox, it was probably on a cue card

As Bret Baier says on his broadcast every night....
"Thanks for joining us tonight on FOX...Fair,balanced and unafraid"...