{"id":809,"date":"2010-10-25T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:12:00","slug":"republicans-intimidate-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/politics\/republicans-intimidate-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Intimidate Minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, told state Republican leaders last week about his plan to send “voter integrity” squads to two predominately African-American neighborhoods of Chicago and two other urban areas of Illinois with significant minority populations “where the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers somewhat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/10\/mark_kirk_sends_poll_watchers_to_vulnerable_largel.php<\/p>\n

\u201cIntimidation\u201d is my word based on this:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201c”Voter fraud” has been the rally cry for conservative groups seeking to make it more difficult to cast ballots and suppress minority voter turnout.\u201d Quoted From the Above Article<\/li>\n
  2. The video recorded the alderman from the south side of Chicago stating the remarks were an \u201cinsult\u201d and \u201coffensive\u201d.<\/li>\n
  3. Moreover, the Urban Dictionary defines it this way, \u201cA jew who tries to act black.\u201d\u00a0 This is offensive to Jews and African-American.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=jigger<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Additionally, I can\u2019t speak about Chicago but in Louisiana where I come from the white folks used the word \u201cjig\u201d as an offense to African-Americans.\u00a0 Occasionally, they would extend that use to \u201cjigger\u201d to refer to the actions of a \u201cjig\u201d as in jigger rigging.\u00a0 A lexicon is a record of how regular people use words.\u00a0 In the South, I would not say it was a common usage but just about everyone I knew knew\u00a0what it meant.\u00a0 If others have heard “jigger” used in this context, before the the Republican candidate’s comment, the comment\u00a0would be heard\u00a0 as an insult, offensive and intimidating.\u00a0 This may not be how the Senator meant it but I think it is certainly how some might take it as was mentioned in the article.\u00a0 Here is proof of this statement:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u201cJigaboo, jiggabo, jigarooni, jijjiboo, zigabo, jig, jigg, jigga, jigger <\/strong><\/p>\n

    (U.S. and UK) a black person (JB) with stereotypical Black features (e.g. dark skin, wide nose, and big lips).[110] Jiggaboo or jigabo is from a Bantu verb tshikabo, meaning meek or servile.[111] There might also be a historical connotation with peek-a-boo, boo boo, boogie and boogie man.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_ethnic_slurs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Mark Kirk, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois, told state Republican leaders last week about his plan to send “voter integrity” squads to two predominately African-American neighborhoods of Chicago and two other urban areas of Illinois with significant minority populations “where the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers somewhat. http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/10\/mark_kirk_sends_poll_watchers_to_vulnerable_largel.php \u201cIntimidation\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[140,240,223],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-republicans","tag-minorities","tag-republicans","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}