"John is It!" "I don't want to be It! I'm always It! Somebody else should be It!" "Okay, fine, let's do Rock-Paper-Scissors!" (or any other choosing game) "Rock-Paper-Scissors - you lose - you're It - GO!"Īmong my friends it was always Rock-Paper-Scissors, but Eenie-Meenie-Miny-Moe is really common too (of course, you only have to play these games if you can't agree). When I played, the first question was always, "Who's It?"įrequently this created a lot of argument. The words go like this: 'Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,/Catch a nigger by the toe./If he hollers, let him go,/Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Sometimes kids will add all sort of funny variations to it :) But as far as history goes, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep isn’t the only kids’ rhyme that’s come under fire for being racist. I don't think they would "count out," but if it were a counting rhyme they might just say "let's count"Ī popular rhyme is "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, I could imagine a kid saying that before doing the rhyme I think "let's find who is it" could be said as "let's find out who it is" or "let's see who it is" If American discrimination law means the most sensitive of us get to decide what speech is permissible, then we have all lost important freedom.Both of them seem a little unnatural but it's hard for me to figure out why The content is provided for folkloric and socio-cultural information.
"There are a lot of people in this world who take themselves too seriously," Barrett said. For folkloric purposes, Im also interested in documenting examples of 'Eenie Meenie Miney Mo' rhymes from the United States which include 'the n word' and which also include recollections about the chanters reaction to and/or other peoples reactiions to that word in those examples.
Eany, meany, miny, mo Catch a ngger by his toe If he hollers let him go Eany, meany, miny, mo. I grew up in the mid 60s / early 70s and knew the ngger version. She says her employees did nothing wrong, so she won't tell them to shut up. Eeny Meeny Miney Mo Catch a baby by its toe, If it screams, let him go, Eeny meeny miney mo This was late 90s/early 2000s 0. Southwest's president, Colleen Barrett, is fighting the suit. I think so too, but amazingly, a federal judge in Kansas City, Kan., said the lawsuit can go forward because "Eenie Meenie" could be viewed as racist. "It's a scam, if you ask me," said a woman. "I think some lawyer and some people are huntin' for some quick bucks," one man said. Lots of people had opinions about the lawsuit. Most older people we asked, white and black, didn't know anything about the racial connotation. A leader takes the counting role and, in the rhythm of the rhyme, points to each child in. So I said 'Eenie, meenie, miney, mo.' and they all said 'catch a tiger by its toe.' When I told them it used to be 'catch a nigger by his toe' their reactions ranged from shock to disgust, which I thought was interesting. As difference is unwelcome to children, the formula had to be sufficiently unpredictable to be accepted as fair. Kids we know told us it's just a way to pick someone. The rhyme is used by groups of children as a way of selecting someone to take a role that is different from the others. The 22-year-old flight attendant said she didn't know anything about "Eenie, Meenie's" racist past - she'd just heard other staff use the rhyme to get passengers to sit. It's true that the rhyme was once a hurtful part of America's racist past, but today few people even know about that. That's why the women say they deserve money - "punitive damages." They suffered "severe emotional distress," because they were "unable to escape the airplane, which was … poisoned with racism." Eenie, meenie, minie mo.Catch a tiger by the toe.If he hollers, let him go.Eenie, meenie, minie mo.īut years ago, some said not "catch a tiger by the toe," but "catch a nigger by the toe."
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