He has now admitted it so this post is irrelevant.
I saw the apology video and he said he didn't use the word and purposely mumbled it, I didn't even know there was a version of that nursery rhyme with the N word
but he didn't apologize for using it he apologized if people thought he said it ...probably shouldn't have apologized because the headline that gets ran with makes it seem like he apologized for saying the N word
Got this from google below
"One version of this poem, very popular in the South in decades past went:
Eenie Meenie Miney Moe
Catch a n*gger by the toe....
I learned it with "tiger" replacing the n-word and wasn't even familiar with the racist version until much later in life.
Haj"