Well not getting to worked up over the 10 little indians being changed.... I mean honestly could never see the bulk of people saying 10 little whities or 10 little crackers... so that's no skin of my teeth.. perhaps overly sensitive, but so be it...
Of course we don't say "Einie meenie miney moe, catch a nigger by his toe" anymore either, and I don't think that's a bad thing either.
But some of the other stuff is just plain nutz.
I guess we just never looked at it as derrogatory. That was before the government was around to tell us stuff like that. Perhaps we should have taken all references to Indians and other ethnic groups out of books in case we might offend someone somehow.
Oh, wait.......then they'd be whining about that.