WHITE MISSISSIPPI ANCHOR TERMINATED FOR USING SNOOP DOGG'S 'FO SHIZZLE, MY NIZZLE' PHRASE ON AIR
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Source: Black Enterprise
According to Mississippi Clarion Ledger, a white Mississippi news anchor for WLBT may have been terminated for referencing a Snoop Dogg line. While speaking to a colleague on air while reporting on a story regarding the entertainer’s wine, Snoop Cali Blanc, she said, “Fo’ shizzle, my nizzle.” For those who aren’t necessarily hip-hop fans or as in tune with Snoop Dogg, that’s slang for “For sure, my n**ga.”
Barbie Bassett is the news anchor who uttered the phrase to another anchor during the televised program. This took place earlier this month on March 8, and she hasn’t been on air since, and her name is no longer listed on the news station’s website.
Bassett and WLBT anchor Wilson Stribling were reporting on Snoop’s latest entry to his Cali Wine Collection. At the end of the news report, Wilson jokingly stated that Bassett would be getting a Snoop Dogg tattoo on her shoulder. To which she responded, “Fo’ shizzle, my nizzle.”
Read more: https://www.blackenterprise.com/white-anchors-use-of-snoop-doggs-fo-shizzle-my-nizzle-gets-her-fired/
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The picture is kind of blurry, so it's hard to tell, but she looks more Gen X to me.
For reference, the baby boom was 1946-1964, so the very youngest boomers are nearly 60 now.
EDITED TO ADD: Okay, I just watched the video, and she does look older than I thought. Could be either an older Gen Xer or a tail end boomer. No reason to assume she's a boomer, though. Boomer is not a synonym for older person. It literally means someone born within a specific range of dates.
If the black dude is shaking his head it's really not because he's deeply offended, he just thinks it's stupid/trite.
Given the subject was Snoop's wine collection, this is just an attempt at a joke using his own lyrics.
Most people don't even know it means anything but 'for sure' and that Snoop said it.
Weak-ass justification for firing, if that's why it happened.
When the other side complains about cancel culture ... here's a perfect example for them to use.
MHO.
