Posted on 09/19/2017 2:15:44 PM PDT by fwdude
For the left, the microaggression du jour is cotton, apparently.
Last week, a woman by the name of Daniell Rider slammed Hobby Lobby in a Facebook post over an innocuous display of cotton in vases.
“This décor is WRONG on SO many levels,” she wrote. "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. Please remove this décor," she added.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
I think they should also demand an end to “black pepper”...not for homes and not on tables in restaurants...and using salt would make you a racist - so there.
Do any of these people know the meaning of the word - ridiculous? Can they spell it? Can they speak it?
“”before Obama starting doing damage.””
No one can say he failed at his objective!!!
I do declare, I do not cotton to this here spurious fabrication..
What are the odds she was wearing something made of cotton?
Does she know that Walmart, Target, Macy’s and other stores sell under-drawers made of cotton?
Cotton kills in the winter.
I’m staying at a comfort inn tonight traveling for work. In the bathroom is a jar of Q-Tips and cotton balls. I’m so upset I can barely type. I might need to skip the class I’m teaching tomorrow.
Somebody please find me a statue to vandalize
Q-Tips. OMG... Maybe you should post this to the daily prayer thread, as you’ll need something to get you through the night. It’s gonna be rough.
And if the left were to manage to get cotton off the market altogether who would be hurt by far the most? Why, the descendants of slaves who picked the cotton 200 years ago.
I picked cucumbers in Washington outside of Tacoma in 1970. Cucumbers hav to be the nastiest of the stoop labor. I picked peaches out of Wapato later and that was vacationlike in comparison.
Oh puh-leazzzzzeeeee! By the time these snowflakes get finished everything will be decorated in early concrete grey ! Oh but wait that may be too close to prison walls. The Communists were always good at destroying things of color and beauty.
Maybe Daniell would like to accompany me on the next ride into town. Hundreds and hundreds of acres of cotton fields are passed.
Maybe this conditioning would help her. Perhaps after several trips Daniell would come to view the cotton fields as I do: boring.
Always,"Smug in their wooly cotton brains of infancy"
I’m sorry, but blacks do not own the cotton brand.
Cotton slavery existed for only about a generation in America, roughly from 1795 to 1860. Colonial America imported British cotton by law; in 1790 US Cotton production was only about 900,000Kg. The largest producers of slave-produced cotton pre-1800 were muslim-controlled regions and India-ns (and, I think, China).
Between 1800 and 1860 the invention of the cotton gin drove larger labor demands but even while northern slaves were sold south, and former French and Spanish slaves were incorporated into southern plantation life, slavery was slowly being made obsolete by the steam engine, the electric motor and an expanding world of trade by industrializing nations. More and larger ships established international routes, cheaper cotton markets were found, and prices fell. Britain, for instance, about the only consumer of American cotton in 1795, obtained 90% of their cotton from India and Egypt by the start of the Civil War.
America’s past was no different than the past of any part of the world, with one very exceptional difference: America ended slavery within it’s borders with the blood of a million lives and the devastation of our South beyond imagination. We have paid 100 years’ of reparations of every kind imaginable - longer than cotton plantations farmed by slaves even existed. Rather than condemning America’s role in slavery as if it were not a sin of every people everywhere, America should be celebrated as a leader in trying to eliminate slavery. So hands off the cotton displays, girlie.
Can Marshmallows be far behind?
Perhaps, the next chant will call for the resignation of Senator Cotton.
The offense is all about the image, even fake conjured up images.
you and me!
The cukes were not that bad, since the field was literally right next to my house.
The snakes were a minor problem.
But the farmer wanted SMALL gherkin size for pickling, since that brought the highest price. The larger cukes were hust left to rot. Or we could pick them for ourselves, which we did.
The pay was 75 cents a bushel basket. It takes a lotta gherkins to fill a bushel basket, and the owner’s son would shake it down when you brought to to be counted, so you’d have t go back out and pick some more.........
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