Posted on 05/04/2014 5:49:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
JEREMY Clarkson, presenter of BBC motoring program Top Gear, on Thursday “begged forgiveness” for appearing to use a racist insult in a non-aired clip recorded for the globally successful show.
Clarkson, no stranger to controversy, explained that he had recited an old nursery rhyme that includes a racist term, but tried to mumble out the offending word.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
I learned it...in the 1950's,middle class white neighborhood...to be a name for black people that's seldom used today.
There’s a variation in some circles where tiger is replaced with the N word. I remember the first time I heard it being quite shocked and sometimes that’s how you instantly learn you’re hanging out with the wrong crowd, even if all the signs were there from the beginning.
You do realize that Clarkson is a satirical writer? And let’s not forget that our own media was saying the same things including plenty of FReepers who were pimping the same.
Also Ten Little Indians was originally Ten Little N words.
Yeah, Clarkson is a typical Brit Hate-America type. I wonder when the lies told about Katrina will go away...
What ever happened to “Sticks and stone may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”!
People need to get over this crap. Stand up for yourself.
Probably used more today than in the 50s although not by middle class white people.
Ennie meanie minne moe catch a ....
Interesting youtube. The guy shows the audio has been altered.
It would be the rhyme that I learned from the neighborhood kids at the age of five.
That’s a keeper.
Including me. Americans ARE stupid. When you know that a wall of water is coming and you don’t haul ass outta there - that’s stupid. When there’s help for the asking and you don’t ask - that’s stupid. When you abuse your authority to keep rescuers at bay - that’s stupid. When it is commonly accepted that Katrina was somehow Bush’s fault - that’s monumentally stupid.
You learned it as “BEGGAR”?
Where you from child? 8)
The media made things worse by declaring that people were dying by the thousands in the dome and even pimping stories of bodies stacked like cordwood and even cannibalism.
I remember seeing some photo journal by a foreign tourist who was in NO at the time. They were amazed that the locals didn’t seem to think there was something wrong with ankle deep water and when it got knee deep they just started looting. When the tourists got to the dome they were being threatened so they stole a car and got the hell out of town.
It was a shameful chapter in American history that mostly began and ended right there in NO but FEMA did the bureaucratic thing and screwed things up even more.
Pretty sure the way my grandfather said it back in the day was, “catch a negro by his toe”. Pretty sure that was the traditional version of the nursery rhyme.
Phew, I am relieved, I thought he did something really wrong like calling for a 2nd Amendment in England, Free Market Healthcare instead of the BHCS, and quoting Winston Churchill.... ( Sarcasm off )...
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