IS “EENIE, MEENIE, MINIE, MOE” RACIST?: That’s what these sisters are claiming. They’re suing Southwest Airlines because a flight attendant jokingly said “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe/Pick a seat, we gotta go!” over the intercom in order to get everyone seated before takeoff. One version of the evergreen childhood counting-out rhyme includes a racial slur–but, hello, the version I learned and which I’ve heard chanted by scores of black schoolchildren does not. It’s “Eenie, meenie, minie, moe/Catch a tiger by the toe/If he hollers let him go/Eenie, meenie, minie, moe,” and maybe some tag-end thing like “My mother told me to pick the very best one and you are not it” or some such. To assume that the 22-year-old flight attendant had some cryptic racial reference in mind is just… weird.

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