Walking Dead T-Shirt Featuring a Nursery Rhyme Is Called 'Racist' Pulled From Stores in the UK

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is shocked and stunned by The Walking Dead T-shirt controversy — shocked and stunned, that is, that anybody would find the shirt controversial in the first place.



To recap: U.K. department chain Primark pulled a Walking Dead T-shirt (image below) from its stores after a customer complained the clothing item is “racist” and “offensive.” The shirt featured Negan’s signature Lucille baseball bat and his victim-selecting rhyme, “Eeny meeny miny moe, catch a tiger by the toe…” The problem? About 100 years ago, that rhyme commonly used the N-word instead of “tiger.”




Morgan, sounding not entirely unlike his irate profane character on TV’s top-rated drama, tweeted:



Holy crap people are stupid. 'Walking Dead’ Shirt Pulled From Stores After Complaint of Racism