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...your tank. The next: BANG! A gun in your face. Your response to being violently blindsided is not anger but a debilitating sense of violation and helplessness. If Imus is fired tomorrow, I won't feel any better. I'll still be wondering who else sees a "jigaboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Makes Me Wanna Holler | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...campus is further divided between "Wannabees," who wear colored contact lenses and hair weaves and are supposedly trying to look like whites, and the so-called "Jigaboos" who are proud of their Blackness-they take pride in their heritage and the women let their hair grow naturally. Most of this conflict is acted out in a series of catfights between the Gamma Phi women, the Gamma Rays, led by the blond-haired, green-eyed Jane Toussaint (Tisha Campbell) and the Jigaboo women, led by Dap's girfriend Rachel Meadows (Kyme...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Sophomore Slump | 2/26/1988 | See Source »

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