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But I'm guessing that any lawyer capital S Stoopid enough to take this case on a contingency basis is maybe not the star of the local bar, so to speak. Fuller, was that you shoulda had some more (presumably more sympathetic to your whack-ass attempt to extort money from a big company) blacks on the jury, I have a few points.įirst, your attorney had every chance to get some blacks on the jury during the voir dire phase of the trial.
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Well, there were seven men on the jury, but wait, oh yes, even though that men are in fact a minority, they don't count as such in Bizarro PC world.īut if what you really meant, Ms. "It's a shame that the jury pool we had to draw from did not have one black and not one minority," she said." In his closing argument he said Cundiff's use of the rhyme was tantamount to a racial slur."ĭoes this shyste., err, ambulance chas, err, lawyer's name strike you as oddly fitting? If there is a god, please tell me Scott pronounces it to rhyme with "easel." Wissel, appointed to represent the women after they filed a handwritten complaint, declined comment about the verdict.
I wonder if Fuller used to watch the show. Is that hilarous, or what? Who knew that a nursery rhyme had such deadly power? I cannot help but think of the old TV Show "Sanford & Son," when old Fred would fake heart attacks to try and get his way. Later at home, she said she had a grand mal seizure and was bedridden for three days." Fuller said she suffered a small seizure on the flight home, which said was triggered by the remark.
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by the toe." They testified at the two-day trial that they were embarrassed, humiliated and frustrated. (For my overseas readers that might be wondering, the word is "nigger" - you'll hear it all the time on hip-hop and rap records - its Voodoo Magick Power to incite seizures in the black population of AmeiKKKa strangely absent, (see below) as are lawsuits by middle class black Americans against the artists and their record companies for dropping the N-Bomb in public- mld) "Sawyer and Fuller said the rhyme immediately struck them as a reference to an older, racist version in which the first line is followed by the words "catch a n-r.
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The full story is here, but in case it falls off into the you-gotta-pay to read archives of what we residents of the Houston area call The Comical, here's a snippet or two.
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UPDATE - : In a burst of common sense I've come to think of as rare in our increasingly litiginous society, a jury found for the defendants, that is, the airline. "Some people will try any kind of way to get some money that don't belong to them."Ĭouldn't have said it better my own damn self. I opened the paper and showed her the article. One woman, working the counter at a fast-food franchise, (and incidentally, about my age, and so, old enough to be cognizant of the original version of the rhyme) replied, "You are kiddin' me." To a (wo)man, they looked at me as if I was a brother from another planet.Īfter I explained why I had asked, they were, hmm, unsupportive, to say the least, of the lawsuit. I repeated the "Eenie-meenie." phrase to them, and asked if they found it offensive.
None of them had heard the story in the news. Most kids nowadays have never even heard the original version, which dates back to before the Civil War.Īfter I read about this, I asked a few of the black people I ran into today for their reaction. Later, (about the time my fortysomething self started wearing long pants) the offending second line was changed to: It was used like the old "hot potato, cold potato" counting out rhyme to attempt to randomly choose something as important as who got to bat first at the local sandlot ballgame. Two of the unseated passengers were black females, and they are now suing Southwest for the stew's "racist" remark.īack in the old, unenlightened days, there was a nursery rhyme that went like this: Two years ago, so said one 22 year old Southwest Airlines stewardess flight attendant, as the plane was about to depart, as she tried to chivvy the still unseated passengers into grabbing a seat.