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To: TigerClaws

Wiki
——Crops cultivated on antebellum plantations included cotton, tobacco, sugar, indigo, rice, and to a lesser extent okra, yam, sweet potato, peanuts, and watermelon. By the late 18th century, most planters in the Upper South had switched from exclusive tobacco cultivation to mixed-crop production-—

So when this racist goes shopping does she get triggered by all the others crops planted in the south or just cotton...?

Does a pack of newports or marlboro trigger her senses....slaves picked tobacco...too...


17 posted on 09/18/2017 7:03:13 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Popman

I read the other day about some administrator apologizing for having something or other cotton in his/her office while interviewing a black. Anymore, being a racist is just a matter of self-defense.


21 posted on 09/18/2017 7:11:52 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Popman

I thought Black people liked sweet potato pie. Will they all have to give that up now because of Ms. Rice’s fits?


31 posted on 09/18/2017 7:31:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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