Observations on African Americans and other people of color and the significance of "race" in a (purportedly) colorblind world
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Shucking And Jiving
Last week New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo made the following statement in a radio interview in which he discussed primary campaigning: "You have to sit down with 10 people in a living room. You can't shuck and jive at a news conference; you can't put off reporters, because you have real people looking at you, saying 'answer the question.'" Cuomo's spokesperson, Jeffrey Lerner, later explained that Cuomo "meant no offense to either candidate because he was praising both in the interview. 'Bob and weave' would have been a better phrase . . ." You think?
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