Is this Walking Dead t-shirt racist? Primark pulls item following a complaint. A Walking Dead t-shirt, featuring a quote and image from the US TV show, has been withdrawn from sale at Primark after a customer complained it was 'racist'.
The shirt was emblazoned with the words 'Eeny Meeny Miny Moe', along with a picture of a baseball bat, in reference to an episode of The Walking Dead in which a character says the phrase before beating a character to death.
Shopper Ian Lucraft told the Sheffield Star he first spotted the item while shopping with his wife. He said:
"We were shocked when we came face to face with a new t-shirt with a racially explicit graphic and text.
"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. "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.'
"The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood. This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America. "It is directly threatening of a racist assault, and if I were black and were faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood."
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