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My wife basically did this to her racist grandpa one time. I think they were having dinner with friends and she goes "Gwampa, I have a question, is a 'Jive-Ass Jigaboo' the same thing as a 'Jungle Bunny'?"
It did not go over well with her grandpa's friends lmao.
Edit: My wife wanted me to add because I didn't mention it originally that she was 15 when she did this. So she was 100% aware of the live grenade she was lobbing into this conversation. I was also misremembering a little of the context these people weren't friends they were people related to her grandpa's labor union basically he was trying to impress and really laying it on thick. One of whom was a black man. Hence it being this particular live grenade.
There are many things I didn't understand about this. And that's okay.
Short version, Wife's granddad was an old racist. Old racist granddad made wife mad. Old racist granddad wanted to impress some people. Wife casually asked old racist granddad about some super old super racist terms he said to her in front of said people to embarrass him in front of them.
What's "Jive-ass Jigaboo"?
“Jive” is an older term for what you might call less offensively call Ebonics or AAVE. Popular in the 80’s, I remember my mom talking about having a computer program that would “translate” things into jive (while also talking about doing black face for Halloween….)
“Jigaboo” is a slur for a black person.
I remember the scene you referenced, and i recall that i hadn't understood the jive reference then and i just assumed that it was just funny gibberish.
In the police academy movie, its what the white asshole called the black lady who ran over his foot... which made hightower fucking pissed at him and flipped the car he was hiding in.
So its probably a bad slur.
From what I can gather it's like a super old racist term for a black person. idk if I'd call it a full on slur, but definitely in that ballpark. But either way we're talking like 1920s old. Like this term was at least 75 when my wife did this to her grandfather in 2000.
Good to know, I just remembered this scene from the movie Airplane now: it makes sense what the white lady says now, lol
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g0j2dVuhr6s