Understand that this is a term used BY blacks to describe the pretense of others, and that is exactly how Palin used the term.
Washinton Post:
Like many conservative pundits, Sarah Palin is criticizing President
Obama for his administration’s inconsistent statements on the Benghazi, Libya,
attack. Unlike many conservative pundits, Palin used the term “shuck and jive”
to describe Obama’s behavior.
In a Facebook post today, Palin wrote: “Obama’s Shuck and Jive
Ends With Benghazi Lies.” She also used the term in the text of the post, which
concludes, “President Obama’s shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies
must end.”
The phrase “shuck and jive” popped up in the last presidential
election cycle too, when New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said, “You
can’t shuck and jive at a press conference. All those moves you can make with
the press don’t work when you’re in someone’s living room.” At the time, Cuomo
was supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton in her primary race against Barack Obama
and others.
CNN commentator Roland Martin responded by issuing a
tutorial on the racially loaded nature of those words:
“Shucking and jiving” have long been words used as a negative
assessment of African Americans, along the lines of a “foot shufflin’ Negro.”
In fact, I don’t recall ever hearing the phrase used in reference to anyone
white.
According to a story in Newsday, “The 1994 book ‘Juba to Jive, a
Dictionary of African-American Slang,’ says ‘shuck and jive’ dates back to the
1870s and was an ‘originally southern ‘Negro’ expression for clowning, lying,
pretense.’”
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