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For example, Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber released a song titled "Eenie Meenie." A line from the chorus of the song says "Shorty is a eenie meenie miney mo lover." In the same song, Kingston says "Eeenie meenie miney mo/ Catch a bad chick by her toe/ If she holler let her go." Over the years, the racial undertones of "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" have been washing off as the rhyme has been used in songs and on the television.
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A jury later ruled in a US District Court that the Southwest Airline flight attendant's recital of the rhyme was not an act of discrimination. In 2004, two African-American sisters sued Southwest Airline claiming that one of its flight attendants offended them racially by saying "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe/ Pick a seat, we gotta go," USA Today reported. The debate over The Walking Dead shirt is not the first time in recent years that the use of "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" has been associated with racism. In some versions of the rhyme, which goes "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe/Catch a tiger by his toe/If he hollers, let him go," the n-word is used to substitute "tiger." The racially offensive version of this counting rhyme was reportedly popular in the US in the 19 th century. While "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" is one of the most popular children rhyme songs, it has a racial twang.
The controversy over the allegedly racially offensive Walking Dead shirt traces back to the early days of the song. "This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America." "It was fantastically offensive and I can only assume that no-one in the process of ordering it knew what they were doing, or were aware of its subliminal messages," Lucraft said.