Black Students Told to Pick Cotton as Slavery Lesson

Opposing Views ^ | November 10, 2009

[Ditter]

Our black brothers and sisters did have it bad but so did a lot of others the world over. My father in law planted a small corn patch and we would pick it for him. The chiggers I got out of that corn patch were horrible, I had scars. LOL!

[SouthTexas]

Little brother started a business in high school chopping cotton. Did pretty good too.

[svcw]

Hey, I picked strawberries, raspberries, blackberry's, lemons and gathered walnuts as well as working my way through college cleaning toilets and mopping floors........where’s my sympathy?
Wow that was snarky.
People of all colors have been slaves to someone sometime, its really getting boring that these “upper middle class” blacks bitch and moan how bad they have it, sorry how bad they had it.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I remember as a child following my grandfather behind a horse and plow. I remember shucking the corn by hand and throwing it into a wagon. I remember handling hay bales by hand and throwing them on a wagon. This can go on and on. The upshot is that a lot of people work very, very hard.

I guess it didn't hurt me.

[SIDENET]

The chiggers I got out of that corn patch were horrible

Who you callin' a chigga?

(lol)

[rawhide]

Good thing the tour guide was black!

[silentreignofheroes]

WE picked cotton in the late 60s’.Yes,we’re white.

[skully]

Let's hope they pick cotton better then they pick Presidents

[Ditter]

OK call them redbugs, we always did when we were young. Then other people started calling them chiggers and we decided we had been wrong.

[Shooter 2.5]

There is a cotton field next to my shooting lease. The lady I was with is educated, upper middle class and one of the smartest people I know. She asked if I had ever picked cotton before. I reminded her that I had grown up in Chicago and had never stepped into a cotton field before. The next thing I know, she’s crossing into the farmer’s muddy field and teaching me all about how she and her family picked cotton.
After the lesson, I reminder her that this city boy lived on a large enough piece of property that us poor people raised rabbits, chickens and our own vegetables.

[Calamari]

"There is a lingering pain, a lingering bitterness, a lingering insecurity and a lingering sense of inhumanity since slavery," said President Kojo Nantambu.

And he does his best to keep the pain, bitterness and insecurity from fading away. Been 144 years since the end of the Civil War and slavery and race will probably be a problem in 2153 or 288 years after the War Between the States if the USA is still here.

[calex59]

My mother, father and most of my uncles, cousins and other relatives picked cotton back in the day in Arkansas. Blacks aren’t the only ones who ever picked cotton. Cotton didn’t die out after slavery ended and even before that many whites picked cotton.

[FReepaholic]

...Rea View? Seriously? ...

Wonder if they have any mirrors.

[LucyJo]

I don’t know...your fingers and hands could get mighty sore from being stuck and cut by the dried bristles on the cotton plants; and, I don’t know if it would be harder to reach overhead all day, or stay stooped over dragging a cotton sack. Two of a whatness, as it was said, I’d think! : )

[opus86]

So let me get this straight...Certain blacks are offended because a black man wanted young black children to briefly experience what their ancestors had to do to survive, in a time when blacks truly were enslaved in America.

I'm astonished at the idiocy of some people.

[lionheart 247365]

Did they first get permission from the Cotton Pickers Union .

[Hiddigeigei]

Slavery is an awful institution.

Some people have been dealt very bad hands in this cruel old world. In Juvenal’s Satires, he tells that a Roman master was considered very kind if he didn’t emasculate his very young slave boys to better serves as sex toys.

Slavery is an awful institution.

[Freddd]

And we wonder why they still have a slave mentality. It’s taught to them by their own race.

[Niuhuru]

” its really getting boring that these “upper middle class” blacks bitch and moan how bad they have it, sorry how bad they had it.”

I know I’m going to offend, but it seems to me the majority of our social problems can be traced to upper middle class idiots having way too much time on their hands.

Where I live, Oprah starts at four pm and ends at five. If women worked 9-5 jobs, they would come home as Oprah ends. Not a bad thing.

[MitchellC]

Rea View

Pronounced "ray view."