Growing up in the '60s in Florida, my mother taught me the eeny meeny miney moe verse but she said 'tiger' instead of the n-word which was commonly used in the South, although I don't remember the other kids saying it. She explained how others used the n-word with the verse although by then she didn't need to explain why it was wrong...t…
Growing up in the '60s in Florida, my mother taught me the eeny meeny miney moe verse but she said 'tiger' instead of the n-word which was commonly used in the South, although I don't remember the other kids saying it. She explained how others used the n-word with the verse although by then she didn't need to explain why it was wrong...that's one of the earliest conversations I can remember having with my mother, before I was in school....black people and how they are NEVER to be called ugly names, esp not that one.
Growing up in the '60s in Florida, my mother taught me the eeny meeny miney moe verse but she said 'tiger' instead of the n-word which was commonly used in the South, although I don't remember the other kids saying it. She explained how others used the n-word with the verse although by then she didn't need to explain why it was wrong...that's one of the earliest conversations I can remember having with my mother, before I was in school....black people and how they are NEVER to be called ugly names, esp not that one.