The Wisconsin State Fair had allowed Tianda Hildebrandt, who is White to exhibit her award winning 3-year-old cow named Milgene Tatoo Jigaboo, which Blacks consider Jigaboo a racial slur, extremely equivalent to calling an African-American a "Nigger".
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
August 12, 2023
West Allis, Wisconsin - Multiple racial slur complaints from the Black community outed a cow exhibitor at the Wisconsin State Fair for naming her cow Milgene Tatoo Jigaboo. Jigaboo is considered an extremely racial slur equivalent to naming a Black person, "nigger, coon, nigra or spade". The 3-year-old cow named Milgene Tatoo Jigaboo was exhibited in the Junior Show at the Wisconsin State Fair by Tianda "Tia" Hildebrandt, 17, from Hustisford in Dodge County.
Since, the racial slur name outing at the Wisconsin State Fair 2023, the cow's name was changed to Milgene Tatoo Puzzle, and is no longer exhibited at the State Fair. Officials at the State Fair say that they don't tolerate or condone this behavior and took swift and deliberate action to rectify this situation, and the exhibitor is no longer at the State Fair.
Black community activist Vaun I. Mayes posted several images showing the racial slur name of the cow on his Facebook account.
Mayes criticized Wisconsin State Fair 2023 officials for allowing Hildebrandt to register her cow with a racial slur name and not catching it until members of the Black community began to complain about it in social media and tagged the Wisconsin State Fair Facebook page.
The Hildebrandt family released a statement apologizing to the Black community, Wisconsin State Fair and dairy farmers for using the racially insensitive term and once it was found that using the word was harmful and unacceptable they changed the cow's name to Puzzle.
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