Posted on 09/26/2022 9:57:19 PM PDT by grundle
Wheel of Fortune and host Pat Sajak have been catching a lot of heat these last few days.
During a recent episode of ABC’s hit game show, a puzzle with a racist history in the United States was presented as one for contestants to solve. The category was “Rhyme Time,” and the answer was later revealed as “EENIE MEENIE MINY MOE CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE,” which didn’t sit well with viewers.
According to Vox, the original version of this rhyme is “rooted in the slave trade,” and was not used by children but by slave-owners. “Tiger” in the rhyme was originally an “N-slur.”
Knowing this, per The Sun, many took to Twitter to slam Wheel of Fortune for using a puzzle with a racist past.
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Yup, that’s what my granma always called them.🤪
This is getting so bizarre!!..everything and everyone is racist?!
What happened to a color-blind society Martin Luther King wished for? Oh yeah, that is now racist too...Was he? So sad.
I have had many wonderful friends in my life who were not of same race as me...it never mattered to them or me.
I really hope this stops!
Someone got upset because I used the phrase “cotton pickin”.
I told them I’ve picked cotton. Have you?
Turns out the white boy (me) had picked cotton but the black man had not. So if it’s a racist phrase, it’s insothe white guy.
““EENIE MEENIE MINY MOE CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE,” which didn’t sit well with viewers.”
bullshit. Leftarda are truly crazy people. They even teach this in elementary schools in the Philippines. EVERYTHING is RACIST to these clowns.
Ah. That’s right. Third time lucky.
Lordy where do they find such historical references??
If someone has a tiger by its toe, he has a much bigger problem than figuring out what sound it can or can’t make. ;)
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Reasons why theY removed the little rascals for the air ways, stymie and buckwheat, but its ok for Eddie murphy to use the character on SNL
Holy crap, am I racist for laughing my ass off at that?
ABC? On my tv, It’s CBS.
Brit English “sniggered” sanitized to US English “snickered”. Words like blackguard and niggardly have gotten people into trouble.
Of course the N word must still be ok because it frequently pops up in rap songs.
Oh wait, whites aren’t allowed to say it..a drunk white country singer got cancelled (...on radio...)for using it....
I’d comment here but I’m racist,my keyboard is racist,the chair I’m sitting in is racist,the lightbulbs in my room are racist...
In the Midwest, we always said ‘catch a little boy by the toe’.
We used the rhyme to ‘make decisions’.
Who would go first in a game
Which kid would we pick to be on our team’’.
Etc
SOME PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE APPEASED.
Another story from Yahoo by their celeberty diversity writer exploiting both Black Inferiority Complex and Black Persecution Complex.
No wonder they are afraid to leave the plantation.
I only heard “tiger” growing up, and don’t believe for one second that this was ever a reference to blacks in any way. There may have been such a reference in “Pulp Fiction”, but that was a goofy movie.
They will tie whatever they want to racism.
Yahoo news. White media folks getting false outraged on behalf of black folks while progressive ‘splainin to them what latest supposed slight they are supposed to be outraged over.
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