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From what I understand, the rhyme itself has had variations of it in many different cultures, and the use of it in the U.S. originally had no racist undertones behind it. What did appear to happen was that someone used a racial slur in one of the lines of the rhyme at one point. But the rhyme itself was never based on any sort of racist origins.
The Walking Dead is so violent and gruesome it would have gotten an "X" rating if it had been shown in movie theatres in the '70s. But it's controversial now because one of the characters said "eeny, meeny..."
Times have certainly changed.
I don't ever remember either of my parents using the "N" word growing up, but as a kid, someone taught me "eenie, meeny, miny, moe" using the "N" word. That's all I heard for a number of years. When I found out that the "N" word was considered highly offensive, I was embarassed. So yes, I do believe it was commonly used.
It was used in a racist way right up to the 90s.... I know because I could hear the local kids using it......
I hear the same word virtually every day in hip hop music by, for and about the same people who are pretending it is offensive.
They obviously don't really find the word offensive--they love it an try to use it constantly in casual conversation!
Time for America to grow up. If the word is so offensive that we have to be afraid of it even when it is not being spoken, it cannot simultaneoulsy be the favorite word of those who pretend to offense, or else we have to ignore their complaints as another example of faux outrange, crying wolf, and gaining power by being a victim.
As for the Walking Dead, it was once the greatest show in television history, and now has jumped the shark badly.
I don't ever remember either of my parents using the "N" word growing up, but as a kid, someone taught me "eenie, meeny, miny, moe" using the "N" word. That's all I heard for a number of years. When I found out that the "N" word was considered highly offensive, I was embarassed. So yes, I do believe it was commonly used.
This is literally the first time I have ever heard that this kids rhyme was ever used that way.
Where did you grow up if you don't mind me asking?
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