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  • Children's Nursery Rhyme Triggers Racial Discrimination Lawsuit

    04/17/2003 6:18:32 AM PDT · by Pern · 135 replies · 1,092+ views
    CNSNews.com ^ | April 16, 2003 | Marc Morano
    (CNSNews.com) - A Southwest Airlines flight attendant's use of a popular children's rhyme - "Eenie, meenie, minie, moe" - has resulted in a federal racial discrimination lawsuit against the airline filed by two African American women asking for unspecified financial damages. 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. The trial was supposed to start Tuesday in Kansas City, Kan., but U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Vratil delayed the case until Sept. 29. Southwest...
  • Catch an Airline by the Toe: Will Big Eenie Meenie be the next tobacco?

    02/14/2003 8:16:14 AM PST · by WaveThatFlag · 13 replies · 271+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | February 12, 2003 | COLLIN LEVEY
    <p>Southwest Airlines is always trying to be funny. Now a case in which its trademark humor apparently failed is turning out to be the funniest story of all.</p> <p>This week, a judge in Kansas City, Kan., has cleared for takeoff a discrimination lawsuit against the airline. But Southwest's sin is not about overweight or undertall stewardesses, or even about the racial profile of their pilots. Southwest is in trouble over a children's rhyme. And it could cost them nine, ten, a big fat hen.</p>