Michael Zak at Grand Old Partisan caught a TIME Magazine stunner:
Time rag sent this out after it was published:
This headline is still posted on Yahoo.
Unbelievable!!
Jig– a racist term.
From Websters Dictionary:
Main Entry: 3jig
Function: noun
Etymology: short for jigaboo black person
Date: 1927
Oops!… It looks like TIME Magazine just swapped the headline:
Glenn Reynolds calls it an unfortunate turn of phrase.
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