The Friday "Week in Review" panel at the PBS NewsHour started with the Republican half of the 2024 presidential campaign, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Anchor Geoff Bennett brought up a previous interview, where College Board CEO David Coleman claimed Ron DeSantis somehow had nothing to do with all the revisions in that AP African-American Studies course to make it less of a radical leftist propaganda course.
Isn't the northern cotton belt centered in New Jersey?
ReplyDeleteThey paid some pretty outlandish wages, too! No wonder the North was so prosperous.
DeleteThat is one very stupid man.
ReplyDeleteMy mother picked cotton (in Texas) and was in a one room school house which had only one book..the BIBLE. Wait...nothing to complain about here..she was WHITE!!
ReplyDeleteJonathan Capehart, prep school graduate and homosexual millionaire, is obviously entitled to reparations for all the wrongs that have befallen him because of America's systemic racism. And Eric Holder, who married Mr. Capehart to his white husband, would certainly agree about the difficult life of oppression he has suffered under.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother picked cotton as a child in the 1930's as a sharecropper's daughter in the deep South. And we're white white white. He's younger than me, I highly doubt any farmer would've had people picking by hand when modern farm equipment was available by that time. Liar liar kneegrow on fire.
ReplyDeleteTotally believable when you realize "picking cotton" in New Jersey is synonymous with "shoplifting garments made of cotton."
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought it meant pulling the wad of cotton out of the top of a bottle of aspirin.
DeleteI have no problem with the current movement to bring more black American's contributions to America to light. There were many blacks who helped make our country the thriving nation that we are, or at least, we used to be. What I am having a huge problem with is the movement that seeks to change history to show that it was only African Americans that built America, and without them, we would never have progressed to anything other than a bunch of hunter/gathers who were dependent on natives and the Crown of England to keep us from freezing to death.
ReplyDeleteThe constant attempt to change history is totally with precedent, on only has to look back to totalitarian countries like China, USSR, Italy, just name them, and the thing in common they all have is that they tried to erase their former leaders in favor of the new leaders.
It has been happening for a long time here, but it was brought to the forefront with the removal of statues of heroes of the Confederate army. An army that by the way, was still part of the United States. Now it is moving further, to the taking down of statues like Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Kit Carson, even Francis Scott Key, the stupid is strong with these people. Or we probably should say the evil is strong with these people, because stupid implies that they don't know what they are doing, but they know exactly what they are doing. May God have mercy on their souls, because I personally hope that they get their just rewards here on earth.
Has no one thought that mayhap his mother picked cotton in the South before he was born? Goddam, use your fucking heads for something besides a hat rack. There is plenty to take umbrage about from "the black community" but this ain't one of them.
ReplyDeleteOk, Shell. I'll use my fucking head. My fucking head says no one forced his mother to pick cotton - contrary to the implication she had no choice because of non-existent post civil war slavery or some imagined racism. If she did pick cotton, she did so of her own free will and she was compensated for her labor.
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DeleteBy any chance are you the same guy that shows up here occasionally under various monikers and slings mud in an attempt to insult followers of this blog?
Grandmother picked cotton as a kid growing up in Texas. The idea that only black folks did that and lived as poor farmers is bunk.
ReplyDeleteI am quite surprised that you got the lazy SOBs to do any type of work besides be a part of the 4 or 5 generations of welfare queens. They have nothing to offer. Not even the real black folks in Africa want them back. The whites that defend lying negroids are just as bad. Why not have some move in with you?
ReplyDeleteIf I'd have known it would cause this much shit I'd have picked my own fucking cotton....
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