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"What part of politically correct don't people understand. He denied the campaign is pandering to political correctness. It shows how few minorities there are in senior roles in these companies." "The amazing thing is what this says about the advertising industry. Simon Woolley, coordinator of Operation Black Vote, said: "They are using a nursery rhyme which many people know as being profoundly racist and brutal. The rhyme is controversial because one widely known version of it continues "catch a nigger by his toe".Ĭampaigners, who want the ad withdrawn, are taking their cue from the United States, where a court has ruled that just reciting the rhyme can be racially offensive. In the poster, five spoons, ranging from the small to the outsized, are pictured with the ice cream, the concept being that the consumer uses the counting rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, mo" to select one. When no one cares who people marry, and everyone’s close friends are from every group imaginable, then perhaps we will be where we need to be.An advertisement encouraging lovers of chocolate ice cream to indulge themselves has triggered a controversy over "racist" nursery rhymes and prompted threats of a consumer boycott.Ī coalition of black groups is protesting against manufacturers Masterfoods, claiming that its use of the nursery rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miney, mo" in an advertisement for Galaxy ice cream is racially offensive. I just hope all these racial divides and other divides are, (slowly, unfortunately), (although how people vote as individuals, and individual political views, come from a complex process). When LBJ was pushing for Civil Rights legislation, he said, privately, something to the effect of :“this will cost the Democratic Party the southern states for a decade”. Shared burdens) made a big difference for my parents and their age group. I think the shared experiences of the depression and then of WWII (Even tho the services had segregation, everyone suffered so much. My parents and their friends would have none of that. We cringed back then, in the 50’s (though one didn’t correct one’s grandparents) I’m glad the the racist version is next-to-unknown, for people younger than baby still cringe at the memory of some things I heard from my grandmother’s generation (who were of age to fight in WWI. The use of the word n***** was censored for the American market, being replaced by sailor. The rhyme appears towards the end of 1949 British black comedy, Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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There is also a rich history of the rhyme (various versions), being used in literature, plays, tv and film, up thru the 1950’s. Similar counting rhymes have a long history wikipedia recounts very old Dutch versions (without racist words) Growing up, I heard both versions pretty frequently. This may have helped popularise this version in the United Kingdom where it seems to have replaced all earlier versions until the late twentieth century. It was also used by Rudyard Kipling in his “A Counting-Out Song”, from Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides, published in 1935. So there’s the door and when I count four, It was used in the chorus of Bert Fitzgibbon’s 1906 song “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo”:īut when you get money, your little bride This version was similar to that reported by Henry Carrington Bolton as the most common version among American schoolchildren in 1888. Some older versions of this rhyme had the word n***** instead of tiger: I suspect most people from the south and from the baby boom years, coming across that rhyme with the blanked out place where “tiger” or “n*****” would be, would automatically think of the racist version and cringe.
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So perhaps one’s associations to that rhyme vary by the era and location where one grew up. Hearing racist words at that time was common, but their use in my world was considered “lower class trash” and seem as incredibly rude.
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We wouldn’t have done the older, racist version, in my group of friends our parents (almost all political conservatives) would have gone berserk at us if we had. A southerner (FW, TX) who grew up on the 1950-60’s.īut we all knew the other version it was pretty commonplace to hear it.