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.
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.
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.
What’s “Jive-ass Jigaboo”?
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.
“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.
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