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To: floor sweeper

Ya know... it didn’t occur to me at first that “cotton pickin’” is inherently racist, it’s used as a minor epithet so much that it has lost its underlying meaning.


9 posted on 06/18/2010 8:36:47 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: MrB
it didn’t occur to me at first that “cotton pickin’” is inherently racist

For some folks, saying "That's a pretty cloud" can be inherently racist -- that's how they view the world.

18 posted on 06/18/2010 8:42:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: MrB
Ya know... it didn’t occur to me at first that “cotton pickin’” is inherently racist, it’s used as a minor epithet so much that it has lost its underlying meaning.

Seeing as how my white grandmother and white grandfather both picked cotton, I'd say race ain't got nuthin' to do with it. Scrooo 'em.

27 posted on 06/18/2010 8:47:19 AM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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33 posted on 06/18/2010 8:52:26 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: MrB
You have your terms a little mixed up.

...the term 'cotton-picking' originated in the southern states of the USA, where it is usually pronounced cotton-pickin'. It began life in the late 1700s and differs from the 19th century Dixie term, 'cottonpicker', in that the latter was derogatory and racist, whereas 'cotton-picking' referred directly to the difficulty and harshness of gathering the crop.
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37 posted on 06/18/2010 8:56:23 AM PDT by Syncro (November is hunting season. No bag limit-Ted Nugent)
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To: MrB

I don’t know if he was the first to use it, but Tennessee Ernie Ford sure did popularize “cotton-pickin.’”


73 posted on 06/18/2010 10:06:22 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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