I mean....really...how can anyone get more racist than that?
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Posted on 09/17/2017 8:44:53 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Daniell Rider, a Hobby Lobby consumer, found a decoration at one of their stores so offensive, she shared the image on Facebook requesting that they remove the decor from their shelves. What was it?
Rider on Thursday shared a photo of a shelf with glass bottles containing what appear to be replicas of raw cotton plants.
She captioned the photo, “This decor is WRONG on SO many levels. There is nothing decorative about raw cotton… A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves.”
“A little sensitivity goes a long way,” she added. “PLEASE REMOVE THIS ‘decor.'”
What kind of outcry occurred?
After Rider shared the post, it garnered viral attention on Facebook.
At the time of this writing, the post has been “liked” 33k times, has received 76k comments, and has been shared nearly 7k times.
The reaction was split — some commenters supported Rider’s outrage and wrote things like, “What do you expect from HL!!!? NEVER shop there!” while others couldn’t find the offense in the innocuous-looking decoration.
One commenter wrote, “Ummm… it’s cotton… wtf…its 2017… do you know some slaves in 2017 that picked this cotton and didn’t get paid for it. Just… stop.” Some perspective
Art is art, and visual decor falls into that category.
Visually stimulating productions of art — whether worthy of The Louvre, or simply available at your local craft store — is created with intent and meant for interpretation.
Art’s intent is to be stimulating, and oftentimes meant to be a conversation piece in order to trigger important conversations.
Art can also be art for the sake of visual appreciation. There doesn’t necessarily need to be a deep meaning behind it.
While artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock are widely different, each represents an unconventional aspect of art appreciation which some may “get,” while others may not.
Jute it is
She wins the snowflake and just plain flake of the week prize simultaneously.
I think I know what you are referring to, and that might be right for all I know. But I looked up the expression just for fun and ran across an article about “racist expressions in American English” and that was one of them. It can include poor cotton picking whites along with slaves, so that would seem to take the racist edge off of it a little.
"For centuries, jute has been an integral part of the culture of East Bengal and some parts of West Bengal, precisely in the southwest of Bangladesh. Since the seventeenth century the British started trading in jute. During the reign of the British Empire jute was also used in the military. British jute barons grew rich processing jute and selling manufactured products made from jute. Dundee Jute Barons and the British East India Company set up many jute mills in Bengal and by 1895 jute industries in Bengal overtook the Scottish jute trade."
My God, man! Did Gandhi and his homies not suffer enough?
Maybe milkweed fiber.
< That was such a great movie and everyone back in the day was in it! Saw it for two bits! >,br>
I was 6 the first time I saw it and to this day still ROTFLMAO watching it. Though seeing Jimmy Durante drive the 1957 Ford Fairlane off the cliff, as well as Dick Shawn and Terry Thomas trash the 62 Dodge and 61 Chevy bubbletop, and watching the Imperial get wrecked is a bit cringeworthy. Those cars a are big $$$ in any condition today.
Oh, my gawd. I’m on the lookout for a Pussy Willow decoration. I swear it will be a bat shit crazy FB posting.
Lol. Never ever. Just make sign of cross in general direction. Make your offspring pass down the tradition for as long as possible. Maybe in another 200 years it will be far enough behind us that it will seem a world away and folks won’t need to dwell so much on it. I mean, some people are just slower than others. Jewish people remember the Holocaust but they don’t let it define them nor do they expect payback from any modern day German.
Liberals showing ignorance of history again.
What about all the white people that picked cotton? My brother-in-law was the son of a share cropper and the stories he told! Picking cotton all day as a little kid and then going to the house and being told to just go to bed because there was no food for supper. Blacks are not the only people to pick cotton; whites, Hispanic...well whoever was around where it was raised.
I have never picked cotton but I know plenty of people that have, and none are black. I am also pretty sure this was just a decorative craft, cotton used for its texture. The artist probably had no thought to who may have picked the cotton.
No one has picked cotton in this country as a slave for a very long time, no connection there, making it up! Looking for things to offend them, that is all they do.
Libtardism. Yet another example. Totally meshuganah.
What America has going today:
1. The “Ritalin Generation” of little kids being made more “manageable” by drugs, all grown up and hopelessly indoctrinated by leftist teachers.
2. The results of the leftist crusade in the ‘70s and ‘80s to close the mental institutions.
None of this insanity should be a surprise.
This strikes me as pure leftist BS. Just a contrived piling on of Hobby Lobby as it seems to be a target of the active left currently. IOW this is just another bunch of BS focusing on a Christian business in effort to do as much damage as possible even if the basis of the issue is mightily contrived.
That’s an even more raciss display. Take that off now!
My dad and his entire family picked cotton when they were kids.
yes, I was incredibly offended.... ha ha
Pick a Bale of Cotton by Lonnie Donegan
Pick a Bale of Cotton by Lead Belly
Pick a Bale of Cotton by Sonny and Brownie from "The Jerk" (1979) -- fantastic dancing Steve Martin on the porch!
people dye those things to mimic flowers.
Hypersensitivity run amok!
Liberals are infuriating!
We need to create an entire family of demeaning adjectives to describe liberals.
The ones we have now are not descriptive enough.
The same thing that’s offensive about Traveler the Horse at USC.
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