We should have picked our own cotton.
It was `evil white guy’ Eli Whitney who invented the cotton gin, then the cotton practically picked itself.
Then black scientist G.W. Carver urged cotton farmers to plant peanuts & sweet potatoes, which his unpatented research turned into cashproducing products.
That was history, now back to the news: did Charles Blow’s son have an “I am Trayvon!” sticker on his car?