![]() This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America. The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood. The slogan is “Eeeny meenie miny moe….” It stops there, but of course we all know what the original said: “catch a n***** by his toe. It was fantastically offensive and I can only assume that no-one in the process of ordering it knew what they were doing or were aware of its subliminal messages. ![]() We were shocked when we came face to face with a new t-shirt with a racially explicit graphic and text. Walking into a Primark store in Sheffield, Ian Lucraft and his wife were horrified to see a certain TWD shirt on sale, and he wrote immediately to Primark management to let his feelings be known: Indeed, there is a whole genre of t-shirts commemorating that episode, some of them rather tactlessly described as “eye-popping.”Īnyway, one Methodist clergyman from Yorkshire evidently does not know his TWD Ps and Qs. Now, those of us who have been mesmerized by TWD for the last few years know exactly what the shirt is talking about: the brutal Season 6 cliffhanger and even more brutal Season 7 opener, wherein hypervillain Negan gives old Lucille quite the workout. ![]() This week, it’s a deeply racist Walking Dead t-shirt, featuring a picture of Lucille the Baseball Bat in all her barbed-wire-wrapped glory, with the shocking text eeny meeny miny moe. A couple years ago, it was scientist Matt Taylor’s allegedly misogynistic pictorial fashion choice. ![]()
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