A WTF Moment...

[cratehorus]

Today I had a HUGE "WTF Moment".

My daughter loves poetry/nursery rhymes, and I've taught her a lot of them. One of her favorites, especially since she just started school is:

You shouldn't, teach your kids alot of nursery rhymes either way, most nursery rhymes have racist overtones, this is the original version of your song:

I won't go to Macy's
Anymore, more, more.
There's a big fat policeman
At the door, door, door.
He takes me by the collar.
He makes me pay a dollar.
I won't go to Macy's
Anymore, more, more.

Source: Abrahams (1969)

This was the most common american version of "Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo" 1888:

Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo, Catch a nigger by his toe, If he won't work then let him go; Skidum, skidee, skidoo. But when you get money, your little bride Will surely find out where you hide, So there's the door and when I count four, Then out goes you.

Alot of nursery rhymes were created as instill bigoted beleifs into children as early as humanly possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMHPvphsUI

This is a general essay written about nursery rhymes and racism:

http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/84/...s-wheatley

“‘TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their colour is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,
May be refin’d and join th’ angelic train.”