It's a popular kid's rhyme! (eenie, meenie, miney, mo, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers,let him go, eenie, meenie, miney, mo). It's what kids say when they're trying to pick between two or more options
Actually the original rhyme was not really a children's rhyme until much later. This song song used to be a very racist song about "catching a ni**er by the toe" before they changed it and made it into a children's song. They used to sing this song when they were trying to choose "which ni**er to lynch during their picnic gathers. The original meaning of picnic is also derived from racism which was originally called "pick a ni**er" and also later got changed to picnic. I think, not many people know about this. But the more you know, I guess.
OMG I'm speechless it never cross my mind that a phrase like that could have such sinnister meaning/story behind. Thank you for sharing your knowledge I was also wondering what that phrase meant but wow(⊙…⊙ )
Actually the pic a n*gger thing is false and came from the French word for picnic but the rest is right
No it is not. I have read about it on many different sources. The same way that the ice cream song is also racist.
It is though
https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/2004/january.htm
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN24E21V
You might wanna re read your sources and try not to spread fake facts please it makes it harder for us
can someone please explain to me what "catch a tiger by the toe" means