what do you think about children not being allowed to sing baa baa black sheep?

Question

why cant they sing baa baa black sheep , eeny meeny miny moo catch a ****** by the toe cant make gooly wogs merery christmas wrong??? are we a racist country YES RACIST AGAINTS BRITISH PEOPLE THIS IS BRITAIN i would be interested to hear your comments and why has yahoo put stars on one of my words

Answer 1

N*gger is considered offensive by some as is gollywog, you have to find a way around the board police is all.

My cousin, who recently retired as a teacher of 5/6 year olds, turned the nursery rhyme into a Vegetarian Version to suit her ethnically diverse class
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Answer 2

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Answer 3

No one ever told me not to sing baa baa black sheep I raise sheep anyone who knows anything about sheep knows they are black sometimes. Most are born black. Now as for eeny meeny miny moo I've always known it to be catch a tiger by the toe. When I heard it the other way I thought it was disrespectful. The way it's used is what's wrong with it. The sentence itself is meant to be somewhat violent and cruel. That's why it's not used.

Answer 4

this is oral lore that grew to become into exceeded down from generations to entertain babies while there grew to become into no small screen television, radio, ipods... i think of they have been meant to place across hazards and trickery that have been person-friendly. specific, those thoughts are exceedingly frightening yet while informed below the secure practices and robust of a loving person, it provides babies a feeling of protection against the evils of existence. Baa Baa Black Sheep is in straightforward terms a happy rhyme approximately rural existence. human beings shouldn't stupidly examine racism into it. Baa Baa Black Sheep rolls off the tongue nicer than the different mixture. I even have lived interior the country and sheep particularly do are available in distinctive hues. this is basically how this is.

Answer 5

Ok. I think Baa Baa sheep rhyme is fine as there is nothing racialist about it. You cant sing Baa Baa yellow sheep as they don't exist. I do understand Eeny Miny as there is much racist words used in this rhyme so I can understand why its banned. Yahoo starred that word as it is one of those very racist words that should no longer be used.
Have a great new year X

Answer 6

baa baa black sheep :

This song was written to help children associate wool with the animal that produces it, and also the sound that a sheep would make. Baa Baa Black Sheep was first published in 1744. It probably dates back to the Middle Ages, possibly to the 13th Century, and relates to a tax imposed by the king on wool. One-third went to the local lord (the 'master'), one-third to the church (referred to as the 'dame') and about a third was for the farmer (the 'little boy who lives down the lane').

eeny meeny miny moo :

Although many stories exist about the "real" meaning of the first line, they are apparently just nonsense syllables. One theory posed by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas in their book, The Hiram Key, suggests that the words are the first numbers in the counting system of the pre-Celtic Britons.

The earliest known published versions in the English language date to 1855, one of which used the words eeny, meeny, moany, mite and the other hana, mana, mona, mike. Other versions have also appeared in Britain and America, as well as in several other European languages.

An interesting possibility is that the British occupiers of India brought into English a doggerel version of an Indian children's rhyme used in the game of carambola: "ubi eni mana bou, baji neki baji thou, elim tilim latim gou." (From Kamakhya, a socio-cultural study, by Nihar Ranjan Mishra. New Delhi:D.K. Printworld, 2004, p.157)

Answer 7

It's not true about Baa Baa Black Sheep, and putting it in capitals does not make it so. It's a traditional Nursery Rhyme, and bigots like you pretend it is now illegal to further your own racist ends. As for Eeny Meeny - I am 62 years old, and it was banned when I was at Nursery School in London almost 60 years ago - quite right too.

Answer 8

I almost totally agree with you, the N word aside. My friends regard it as offensive and I have to respect that. There are people of every race and creed who will use offensive language because they feel it glorifies them.

So be it, but I do not have to buy into their lack of intelligence.

However, going back to the Nursery Rhymes, for the life of me I cannot see the problem.

I live amongst people of many races and colours none of them the same as mine. I am constantly referred to as the Gurrie ( phonetic spelling; means Whitie) by people from the Indian sub continent who don't know my name.

Does it offend me? Yes the first time it did. I felt picked on, then i got to thinking " Well yes I am white, very white skinned". so it sums me up.

Any word or expression can be made to seem malicious if you so desire. I didn't grow into a racist bigot for collecting Robinson's Golliwogs or singing nursery rhymes and neither have my children.

Answer 9

well it's totally political correctness gone bad on the baa baa black sheep front, cause there are black-wooled sheep after all... but I always learnt the rhyme as catch a "tigger" by the toe... and gollywogs are bloody awful.

Answer 10

Its so stupid when my son was at playgroup in 1990 they could not sing this, which I thought was so stupid. PC has gone made. I know a guy who is a childminder and all the kids he has there are white (due to where he lives) but he has to have a black doll there as well as a white doll, none of the children have played with it, so what a waste of money!
Its like Robertson's Golly Wogs they are now called Golly People!