[Pern]

Fuller also maintains that the nursery rhyme incident caused her to be bedridden for three days because she suffered a "grand mal seizure."

Yeah, I bet when the 1st of the month rolls around, you'll roll your lazy ass right out of bed and go to the post office.

People like this really sicken me, always looking for an easy way to get money. What ever happened to actually working for a living!?

...I am offended that because I have white skin, suddenly I am a racist," Cundiff wrote. "Maybe those that run around pointing fingers yelling racist should stop and turn that finger around."

You tell 'em, girl! Don't give in to their blackmail.

[dead]

One of the two women suing over the allegedly offensive nursery rhyme claims hearing the rhyme caused her to be bedridden for three days and suffer from "unexplained memory gaps," according to court documents.

Coulda been the nursery rhyme, could have been the crack.

No way to tell.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Bigots like you prove her point. You have no idea what she does for a living.

[AppyPappy]

"Eeenie meanie meiny mo
Kill all the white people that you know"

[Flightdeck]

Last election year, trial lawyers gave $15,000,000 to the democratic party and $13,500 to the republicans. It takes one to defend one.

[Puddleglum]

Funny, on "Celebrity Mole" a few months ago, I saw a black person using this same nursery rhyme when trying to decide who the mole was. Odd.

[melsec]

You tell 'em, girl! Don't give in to their blackmail

OMG you said blackmail! That's a slur on black people. Oh, everythings going dark! I feel kinda strange.

I'm gunna sue your white ass! Sarcasm Off

Have a great Easter!Mel

[Teacher317]

Sawyer and Fuller said that as soon as they heard the rhyme, they were reminded of the racist version

So now, when someone says something, you overhear it and are reminded of something else, you can sue the speaker!

You know, when Clinton mentioned in his last speech that America's economy needs to be addressed, I was reminded of those years of poverty and pain from the Dustbowl and the Great Depression, and I suddenly got so sad and felt such a strong wave of sympathy for those Americans, that I was bed-ridden for several days. In fact, I don't remember entire periods of that time (probably because I was asleep, but who's to say??). My lawyer shall be contacting Mr Clinton in the near future.

[georgiabelle]

Love your screen name. My very favorite books.

They're is a lot of people who I would like to send there.

[capt. norm]

How can one be liable for what another person's imagination can conjure up as an insult out of something you said?

Are we now required to metally revue and edit every utterance and cleanse it of everything that may not be politically correct?

This is being stretched farther every time, to the point where everyone should be catching on.

[Kenton]

Can you say "frivolous lawsuit"? Look behind the thin skin of these hypersensitive passengers and you will probably find some very slick lawyers, working on contingency, guaranteeing them a split of the big bucks that the airline will probably pay in order to get this "nuisance suit" to go away.

Jessie Jackson has a patent on this kind of shakedown, folks. If there's any money to be made here, he'll want his cut.

[shiva]

Jesse Jackson taught them well. He got extortion down to a fine science.

[steplock]

Is this just now going to court?

Eenie, Minnie, Minie, Moe.... February 10, 2003

Rhyme at center of lawsuit against Southwest Airlines

http://www.gohotsprings.com/focus/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=254&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

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[twinzmommy]

I'm so confused!

I'm a 30 year old (almost 31) year old, white, Jewish, female. . .conservative yes. . .raised in the south by yankee parents. . .

My point. . .I had NO idea that that nursery rhyme had any kind of racist anything to it!

[TheSpottedOwl]

Oh for the love of God. Heck the flight attendant should of poured a cup of McDonalds coffee in their laps and fed them peanuts...

Now that would be a lawsuit!

[HamiltonJay]

Jesus, you are a newspaper, if you can't write the word nigger in a context of a quote you are truly pathetic. Pandering to the most thin skinned around is the surest path to hell ever known.

[YourAdHere]

I'm glad Cundiff and the airline are sticking up for themselves. This lawsuit is completely frivolous.

[PatrioticAmerican]

What a load of crap. Bedridden and memory loss??? They have far deeper mental problems than simple a racist experience would cause.

Second, I have heard this on many airlines and to whites as well. These racists are looking to profit, pure and simple.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Can we still say "All the boys in france, wear peanuts in their pants"?

[RGSpincich]

Grow a skin ladies, doesn't matter which color it is. Just needs to be thicker. That goes for many and in all walks of life.

[dagoofyfoot]

The nursery rhyme incident caused her to be bedridden for three days


I totally agree with Pern. This woman probably spends most of her wretched life bedridden. She's just another "something for nothing" person as far as I'm concerned.
Let's face it. We would all like to have something for nothing, but some of us have to much decency to ever go through with something like this.

I'm half Irish and half Hispanic. Let me tell you some of the jokes I've heard:


What is one mile long, all green, and has an IQ of 12?

The entire Saint Patricks day parade.

Why was drivers education cancelled in Mexico?

Because the donkey died.

I don't take myself so seriously that I find this stuff offensive.
I actually think they're kind of funny.