A reporter from Cleveland named Kristi
Capel that works, at the moment, as an anchor on Fox 8 News in the
Morning is in some deep shit after using the term “jigaboo” to
describe the singer Lady Gaga's music. While reporting on the Academy
Awards with another anchor, Wayne Dawson, she watched the highlights
of the show and let this sentence leave her lips. “It's hard to
really hear her voice with all that jigaboo music that she does, or
whatever you want to call it.” Then she paused for a moment and
said it again. “Jigaboo. She has a gorgeous voice. I never knew.
Very nice.” For anyone that doesn't know what that term means, here
ya go.
Jigaboo: noun, plural jigaboos. Slang:
extremely disparaging and offensive; a contemptuous term used to
refer to a black person; used as a disparaging term for a black
person. Jiggaboo or jigabo is from a Bantu verb tshikabo, meaning
meek or servile.
Capel grew up in Northern Kentucky and
was born in 1983 and is a former beauty pageant queen that went to
some religious schools, studied public relations, meteorology, and
broadcasting. After she realized that, oopsy, she said something
offensive, she went on Twitter and said “I do apologize if I
offended you, I didn't know the meaning behind it or that it was even
a word” adding “Thank you for watching.” The same message was
sent to multiple people. As someone that got a degree in public
relations you'd think she would be able to whip up a better apology.
