Sisters Suing Southwest Over 'Racist Rhyme'

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[Sir Gawain]

KANSAS CITY, Kan.

[GeekDejure]

Good thing Southwest didn't serve Brazil nuts.

Right. Otherwise every South American passenger could sue in the World Courrt !!! ;-))

[thepainster]

If you want to see the racist version check out Zed in Pulp Fiction trying to decided between who to sodomize first, Butch or Marcelle Wallace.

Zed got his in the end.....

[glory]

How old is that? I'm 33 and we said this rhyme in elementary school in the 70's, always with Tiger in it.

[rwfok]

The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes is a compendium of folklore and historical fact behind traditional English nursery rhymes. The vast majority date to the 1700s and 1800s, but about 10% of them are older, and a small handful are medieval or even more ancient. For instance, "Hickory, Dickory Dock" and "eenie, meenie, minie, moe" both retain traces of the British Celtic numbering system which lingered on in remote places after the Anglo-Saxon take-over.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I was so convinced that was what they are, that I couldn't eat them as a child-I still can't eat Lady Fingers.(I'm sorry Ladies; I apologize for my insensitivity....please don't sue me.)

[glory]

Apparently this lunacy is going on someplace other than this incident...

http://websterjournal.collegepublisher.com/news/336502.html

Since this seems very obscure, I'm thinking this is a national play by NAACP and these ladies obviously know of it ie if you here anyone say this rhyme, even in it's innocuous version, cry racism. I'd be curious as to their club and political affiliations to verify that. But finding even one story with a similar impact makes me very suspicious that the NAACP is up to something yet again, even if they aren't at the forefront of it yet.

[GovernmentShrinker]

If anybody tried to run a White History Month in the same vein as most school and municipal versions of Black History Month, nobody would have any trouble recognizing it as racist. For starters, few if any of the institutions which observe Black History Month observe anything comparable for ANY of the other racial groups which are represented in their ranks and whose members are aggressively pressured to participate in Black History Month.

[glory]

nice analogy

[Darnright]

>I've always heard it as, "catch a monkey by the toe." Give the gals a banana.

Ah, finally the version I grew up with, although I had heard the "n" version used by bratty boys when I was a kid.

[billhilly]

"You guessed much too old, just a young retired Master Chief Petty Officer."

There is no denying the useage of the brazil nut moniker in my youth, which is a lot longer ago than yours I now know.

When I was in the military, being a boy from the south, anytime I heard someone say dumb hillbilly, I looked around to see if I was being addressed. A lot of the time, I was.

Later in life, a black friend of mine told me of getting married while he was in college and his father cut off his support because he was angry and concerned that he would not get an education. My friend was determined to continue his education and be a husband, so he got a job at a local restaurant as a waiter. On his first day on the job he heard an announcement on the Public Address system, "Send the dumbwaiter to the second floor." He said he took the steps three at a time, thinking that he didn't care what they called him, he needed the job.

I believe it was Mr. Lincoln himself who said, "We are all ignorant, only about different subjects.

[glory]

Instead of doing readings about slavery, why don't these idiots devote their energy to stoping slavery today?>>

I've often wondered this as well.

The only conclusion I can come to is that trashing white americans is the ultimate goal here. Damn our forefathers as slave holders and whittle away at our founding documents. Then replace them with Socialisms historicly disproven principles.>>

BINGO!

[gridlock]

I'm 39, and I must have been born on the cusp of racial political correctness, because I never heard the N- version, but we said "catch a Colored" when I was a kid. I always mis-understood it as "Collar", which didn't make a lot of sense. But since when does anything have to make sense when you are a kid?

Later on it was changed to "Tiger", which kids are still learning in elementary school today, as far as I can tell.

[NativeSon]

Maybe you should check out the details of what's actually being done around the country...

I'm no fan of feel good actions like this but if it's going to go on, it would be usefull if it was done right. Black History month could be used to make known to everyone great Americans who are black.

Most advertisements I have seen for "events" reek of anit-white, poor-me, quasi-militant sentiment. That's not how to lift up a people, that's not how you bring people together.

Black Americans need to wake up, step away from dependance on the government and forge their own futures without directions from so-called "leaders".

The road they are on only leads to ruin, a similiar road my people once took.

[glory]

Precisely, we used it at recess in the 70's--our version was

Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Moe
Catch a tiger by it's toe
If it hollers, let it go
Eenie, Meanie, Minie, Moe

My mother told me to pick the very best one
and you are NOT it...

On every syllable, you pointed at a different person until the end of the rhyme picked the "out" person.

[glory]

good point

[GovernmentShrinker]

I'm 42 and it was "tiger" when I was in pre-school. The N version is definitely not the original (and quite likely the tiger version isn't either).

[NEWwoman]

There's alot of wisdom in those old nursery rhymes and sayings. It used to be: "All I needed to learn I learned in kindergarten." These days, I'm not so sure.

[GovernmentShrinker]

It would also be helpful not to ram it down the throats of whites, Asians, Native Americans, Latin Americans, Arabs, etc., without any similar programs requiring everybody to learn about great members of those groups.

[arasina]

"The situation is darker than you know."

Watch out. You could get sued for saying something like that. :-)

[quebecois]

We used the N-word version all of the time when I was a kid (I haven't heard the thing for many years, and have never heard it with the word "tiger" substituted)...and I'm in my mid-30s.

Having said that, two points:

1) By what crazy version of tort law can you sue someone for something that someone says? Even worse, since when can you sue someone because something that they said makes you think of something else that offends you that they didn't even say????

2) Why is this story national news? A couple of black women are offended by something someone says...and it makes Fox??