Sacramento Bee
Armando Acuna initially didn't see a problem with this line in the Bee's De La Hoya/Mayweather fight story: "Mayweather boxed his style -- he shucked and jived and danced and threw counterpunches with aplomb." The ombud writes: "However, several black readers complained, some vehemently, and I see their objections as valid. The phrase 'shucked and jived' is a racial slur, some said. It is slang and traces its roots to American slaves being deceitful, evasive and falsely sincere."
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