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Difference between Jim Crow someone and Jump Jim Crow

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Jim Crow someone—(U.S. dated sl.) practice racial discrimination against Black people:

  • The Government has opened the door to dozens of prominent Blacks and ensured that they were not Jim Crowed.

jump Jim Crow—(U.S. dated sl.) change one’s political convictions; desert one’s party:

  • Not much balance about us. We just run about and jump Jim Crow.