Joanna was confused.
“So why did Jeremy Clarkson use the ‘N’-word in ‘Eeny Meeny Miny Moe’?” she asked innocently.
Being American, my wife was brought up in a world where the only creatures ever caught by the toe were tigers.
Jo is a modern woman, born in 1970. At school in Los Angeles, they always used tigers in this playground rhyme. My own children used tigers too, and my eldest is 32. They would no more consider using the ‘N’-word in a sentence than they would use the “C”-word in front of their parents.
The ‘N’-word was part of an earlier generation. Mine, and Clarkson’s.
