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Airline Sued For Alleged Racist Rhyme
Channel Cincinnati - AP ^
| 12:49 p.m. EST February 11, 2003
| The Associated Press
Posted on 02/11/2003 6:53:50 PM PST by TSgt
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:26:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A March 4 trial date has been set in a lawsuit filed by two black sisters against Dallas-based Southwest Airlines. A judge ruled last week that the suit will go to trial in Kansas City, Kan.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: crimethink; ditty; kansascity; racist; southwestairlines
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To: Semper911
Here's Mr. Wissel's e-mail address in case you'd like to express your views on this case to him.
mailto:
sawissel@lrf-kc.com
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posted on
02/11/2003 8:28:54 PM PST
by
Redcat
To: MikeWUSAF
Oh great ! Does this mean I can no longer play my Fats Domino record "I'm In Love Again" ?
This whole thing is starting to give me the buckwheats. If they find for the plaintiffs, I hope the jury is niggardly with any awards.
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posted on
02/11/2003 9:50:20 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(it's cold because it's too hot...- Global Warming-ists explanation for cold wave)
To: stylin19a
LOL!
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posted on
02/12/2003 6:24:58 AM PST
by
StriperSniper
(Start heating the TAR, I'll go get the FEATHERS.)
To: Verginius Rufus; CobaltBlue; All
VR: The version we used when I was a child (and I'm a "little bitty white woman" from the South who was taught to NEVER use the N-word) was "catch a tiger" -- a monkey sounds like more fun and lots lets dangerous. We usually used "one potato, two potato" rather than "eeny-meeny", though. We did switch around the "out you old dirty dish rag you" elimination bit between the two, however.
But down to roots, "tiger" is not so far off from the N-word, when you think about it (switch the T to N and add another G). And Eastern Europeans (and some Asians) commonly refer to African humans as "monkeys".
CobaltBlue: Thanks for the info. I'm interested in that stuff. Hope you keep it coming.
All: This lawsuit is sooo ridiculous!
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posted on
02/12/2003 8:48:41 PM PST
by
wonders
(<---etymology addict)
To: LaraCroft
"Really! Now if they said "Eenie Meanie Minie Moe, find a seat you stupid 'ho!" I'd say they had a legit lawsuit."
"...I'd say they had a legit lawsuit."
The problem is to damn many lawsuits over some of the most ridiculous things. Whatever happened to snappy come-backs or just ignoring things which one perceives (in this case falsely) as an insult or racist remark.
Have we in this country become so brain dead that we run to a lawyer every time we hear / see something we don't like.
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posted on
02/24/2003 7:34:54 AM PST
by
Mikey
To: MikeWUSAF
To the best of my memory, the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" version in front of the crystal ball went: "Eenie, meenie, chili-beanie, the spirits about to speak".
To: Semper911
i hear he took the case pro bono....
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