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If American discrimination law means the most sensitive of us get to decide what speech is permissible, then we have all lost important freedom. Catch a tigger (like Tigger from Winnie the Pooh) by the toe. "There are a lot of people in this world who take themselves too seriously," Barrett said. She says her employees did nothing wrong, so she won't tell them to shut up. Southwest's president, Colleen Barrett, is fighting the suit. The most well-known is now: Eeny, meeny, miny, mo/catch a tiger by his toe/if he hollers let him go/eeny meeny miny mo. 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. v1 'eenie meenie miney mo catch a tiger by the toe if he hollars let him go my momma chooses the very best one and you are not it. there are two versions of this, version 1 is a process of elimination and version 2 is a more quick method. Lots of people had opinions about the lawsuit. A method of decision making mainly used by young children and stoners, as you go by each object you say 1 of the words until youre done with the phrase. Most older people we asked, white and black, didn't know anything about the racial connotation. Kids we know told us it's just a way to pick someone. 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. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe.
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It is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person from a group to be 'it' in games etc. 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 nigger by his toe, If he hollers make him pay, fifty dollars every day.' It was used like the old 'hot potato, cold potato' counting out rhyme to attempt to randomly choose something as important as who got to bat first at the local sandlot ballgame. It is Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe actually, and can be spelled in different ways. 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."