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To: VTenigma

We’ll never be as good at picking cotton as them, no matter how hard we try. 😢


6 posted on 01/01/2024 2:20:05 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Prince of Space

“We’ll never be as good at picking cotton as them, no matter how hard we try. 😢”

I know White people that picked cotton in Alabama just to make ends meet.


24 posted on 01/01/2024 2:59:42 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Prince of Space

A mechanized harvester doesn’t that now.


25 posted on 01/01/2024 2:59:57 PM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: Prince of Space

That’s correct.


29 posted on 01/01/2024 3:07:47 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Prince of Space

Well... Sort of... Eli Whitney had something to say about that. John Rust even more a few decades later...

“Works smarter, not harder.”

It’s a Cultural thing.


67 posted on 01/02/2024 11:57:08 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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