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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]how did you play eanie meanie miney mo?[/quote]

As a kid in the 70"s?  N word

As a parent in the 2000"s? tiger

Learn more, do better[/quote]

Bascially this.  In the 70s, what they now call "ding dong ditch" (ringing your neighbors doorbell and running away) was called n*** knocking.  JFC.   :shock: [/quote]

Born in the 60's, grew up in the 70's and 80's.

Never said the n-word as part of eeny meanie miney mo and never heard others say it.

Did say "catch a tiger by the toe."

Never called ding dong ditch what you say above and never heard others call it that.  [/quote]

I think it’s just regional. I was the PP who said it was the common term where I grew up in the 80s/early 90s. I don’t think I ever said it though... we were raised to know it was an awful word even if use casually and not in an “overtly” racist way against a specific person. But I had friends who definitely said it and, if I had to guess, would not have thought of themselves as racists.

Curiously, the first time I heard a “hard” n-word—legitimate, non-ironic, and definitely intended to be loaded up with its full racist meaning—was when I was a junior associate at a very prestigious law firm here in DC. Two senior lawyers were talking with me in the room and it just flew out of their mouths like it happens all the time
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