[AceMineral]

Kojo Nantambu?

[Shimmer1]

Bad news. White people picked cotton too.
My mom and her sibs still were picking cotton into the 40s. I guess this “historically correct” effort needs some fixin.

[Skenderbej]

At least the presentation was historically accurate; a black was having other blacks pick cotton. Whites weren’t the only slave owners.

[bcsco]

I wonder if these folks realized that there were free Blacks who owned slaves. Certainly, the proportion was small, but it existed nevertheless.

[FrankR]

Picking a handful of cotton is to teaching slavery, as putting condoms on cucumbers is to having sex...it's a brainwashing session.

I think the "black leaders" are seeing a lot of young blacks who aren't buying into an 200 year old premise of being victims, and they're trying to keep their poverty pimp jobs safe by introducing them to some of the things associated with slavery.

Either way, I've probably picked more cotton than any one of them involved, and I'm white.

The poverty pimp industry has got to keep the past alive to guarantee their sorry asses an income.

How pathetic..."HOW TO BE A VICTIM 101". I wonder what they're going to do when obama kills off all the old, white people with obamacare? They won't be the victims anymore, they'll be the majority. ha ha no one to steal and mooch from anymore...they won't be getting a handout, OR a hand.

[yarddog]

When I was a kid, I picked cotton on my Uncle’s farm for 3 cents a pound. It was nice to be able to make some real money tho it was hard work. I remember the first trip to the gin, we got paid and I bought a monopoly set. Still have it.

I just remembered when I was only 5, I made 75 cents picking peanuts on a neighbors small patch. That was big money back in 1952.

[Snickering Hound]

[lowbridge]

"I am very enthusiastic about getting kids to think about how people did things in 1860, 1861 -- even before that period,"

How about teaching them about modern day slavery. Take them on a field trip to a welfare office and a subsidized housing project.

[Spirochete]

... teachers at the Rea View Elementary said they are planning to write letters of protest

Rea View? Seriously?

[DoughtyOne]

In 4592 we will still be grieving over these same issues, if some of our citizens don’t pull their head out of their ass, and lighten up.

This guy was providing an object lesson for everyone. He wasn’t stigmatizing people. That is Black heritage. It’s a important part of who they are today as anything else in their ancestry.

What are black supposed to do, not think about it? Hell, that’s all many of them do.

This is just mind numbing bull s—t of the highest order.

[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.

[rawhide]

Good thing the tour guide was black!

[skully]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.