Loudoun County teacher under investigation for passing around cotton while teaching about the history of the cotton gin

Not The Bee ^ | December 23, 2024 | Staff

[lgjhn23]

Whadda bunch of pure unadulterated BS!!
We need to become totally “unburdened” by this BS.

[nomorelurker]

“Me too!.

I was raised in Mississippi!..................”

Me too. NE Texas.

Was about 9-10 years old.
1st day got paid 35cents. Fist money I ever earned.

[4yearlurker]

Also: Oriental,noose,boy,master bedroom....

[gundog]

Don’t forget Uncle Rastus....

[gundog]

Hemp...

[Psalm 73]

"So, now we can’t say:...."

Not only that, but you can't eat at a Sambo's anymore. (And that's how we got stuck with Denny's...)

[HIDEK6]

When I moved to NC in ‘82 I saw a cotton field and went to pick a cotton boll to see what it looked like.

I did the same thing with a tobacco leaf.

[HIDEK6]

Zippedy Doo Dah.

[gitmo]

I’ve picked cotton and I’ve handed tobacco. The latter is the harder work.

[Psalm 73]

(Slim Pickens) "How 'bout you sing one of those negro songs for us"?

(Clevon Little) "I don't get kicks from champagne..."

(Slim Pickens) "No, no - I mean a REAL negro song. Like "Camptown Races""

(Clevon Little) ""Camptown Races"? Never heard of it - how does it go"?

(Slim Pickens) "Oh camptown racetrack five miles long, dooh dah, dooh da...."

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

No, it wasn't.

And if you were a tobacco slave you knew it could be worse, you could be picking cotton. And if you were a cotton slave you knew it could be worse, it could be rice.

[Huskrrrr]

I know a family whose last name is Lynch. Look out!

[metmom]

Good one!

[packrat35]

Cotton is not a sensitive topic. I can bet every damn person in that class is wearing some.

[Flaming Conservative]

My mom was white; she picked cotton in Arkansas.

[Flaming Conservative]

My grandmother’s maiden name was Lynch.

[MikeSteelBe]

The only cotton modern negroes pick is from an aspirin bottle.

[gundog]

They mean it.

I’ve known smart people that fall for the hemp argument. It’s fine tor boutique clothing and rope, I suppose. But then they get off into the x thousands of acres of trees grown just to supply toilet paper, so we need hemp toilet paper. Wrong.

[Repeal The 17th]

True.
Cotton
Corn
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
Turpentine
and many others.
But “cotton” somehow became a “trigger word”.

[Jamestown1630]

Probably because it became connected to the wealth of the South; and was referenced often in that context - the ‘Cotton Economy’, ‘The Land of Cotton’, etc.