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Rep. Hank Johnson: If Democrats Don’t Win Midterms, ‘We’re Going to Be Back in the Cotton Fields’
Breitbart ^ | 07/02/2026 | Hannah Knudsen

Posted on 07/03/2026 8:42:05 AM PDT by DFG

If Democrats do not win the midterm elections, black Americans will be “back in the cotton fields,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) recently claimed

Johnson made the bizarre claim during an appearance on the #RolandMartinUnfiltered daily broadcast.

“It’s a GOP war on black America, and if we don’t stand up and fight back, we’re going to be back in the cotton fields,” Johnson asserted, clarifying what he meant by “fighting back.”

He said it is not a call to arms but a call to protest, although he did not specify if he is imagining wild and violent riots reminiscent of the Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests in 2020, which many Democrats failed to properly condemn.

“And when I talk about fighting back, I’m not talking about taking up arms. I’m talking about taking it to the streets in protest, and also by exercising our precious right to vote,” he said.

Johnson added, “We’re going to have to get out in November and vote, like John Lewis said, like our lives depend on it, because our lives do depend on it this time.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: cottonfields; hankjohnson
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When I was a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cotton fields back home
1 posted on 07/03/2026 8:42:05 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Hank forgot we had a black president


2 posted on 07/03/2026 8:44:18 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: DFG

The cotton fields will tip over with all the new labor


3 posted on 07/03/2026 8:44:57 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: DFG

Poor Hank. He can’t help but embarrass himself.


4 posted on 07/03/2026 8:45:25 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: AppyPappy

Hank forgot he’s an overseer for the Democrat slavers.

He’s busy scaring freed slaves to try to trick them into staying on the plantation.


5 posted on 07/03/2026 8:46:38 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: DFG

He seems to ignore that Democrats wanted to keep slavery and were later adamant about keeping Jim Crow.


6 posted on 07/03/2026 8:46:52 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: DFG

7 posted on 07/03/2026 8:47:52 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: DFG

We don’t need you in the cotton fields...We have equipment now that does more than you ever could...


8 posted on 07/03/2026 8:48:09 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: DFG

Hank would be too stupid to even pick cotton.


9 posted on 07/03/2026 8:48:54 AM PDT by boycott
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To: DFG

He needs to worry more about Guam capsizing than going back to the cotton fields.


10 posted on 07/03/2026 8:49:40 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: DFG

I wish Cotten was a monkey.


11 posted on 07/03/2026 8:49:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: DFG; All

Yeah, and “Guam will tip over.” People keep voting for this moron.


12 posted on 07/03/2026 8:50:41 AM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: Organic Panic

“The cotton fields will tip over with all the new labor”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSRfXqS1Q


13 posted on 07/03/2026 8:51:25 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: DFG

I had some blacks tell me — they claimed to have been alerted by someone who “knew” — that W Bush intended to put them all back into slavery. They believed that. I told them to remember who told them that so they could always remember what a fool looks like.


14 posted on 07/03/2026 8:51:47 AM PDT by odawg (ave led the same sessions )
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To: DFG

“Can a brotha get on Lot A?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB7MichlL1k


15 posted on 07/03/2026 8:51:50 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: DFG

When is this going to get old?


16 posted on 07/03/2026 8:52:20 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Hank’s biggest fear is that Hank will be out of his grifter job.


17 posted on 07/03/2026 8:52:25 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: AppyPappy

Two black Presidents, if Bill Clinton and his promoters are believed.

But Go Brandon already told blacks that they’d be put back in chains if Trump won re-election back in 2020.


18 posted on 07/03/2026 8:53:31 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: DFG

My first thought, too.

Many of us heard that as a cover by Credence Clearwater Revival. Leadbelly first recorded it in 1940. Johnny Cash and others later on.

Probably was also in the tapes in the 1973 Ford Gran Torino in The Big Lebowski.

Script called for a Chrysler LeBaron but John Goodman couldn’t fit comfortably in it so they changed to the Gran Torino.


19 posted on 07/03/2026 8:54:32 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: dfwgator

It’s time - the party of slavery and human trafficking and killing the unborn and old - get the race card in play for the mid-terms.

On deck -

Corrupt Drug Companies and Rx Pricing
Cost of Medical Care and Greedy Insurance Companies
Education Cuts and Teacher Pay
King Trump destroying democracy


20 posted on 07/03/2026 8:54:53 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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