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People Are Calling For A Total Ban On Cotton Because — You Guessed It — Racism
dailycaller.com ^ | Jena Greene

Posted on 09/19/2017 5:46:55 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

A woman in Texas berated Hobby Lobby last week for selling cotton as a decorative home accessory.

This decor is WRONG on SO many levels. There is nothing decorative
about raw cotton... A commodity which was gained at the expense of
African-American slaves.

A little sensitivity goes a long way.

PLEASE REMOVE THIS "decor".

Daniell Rider posted her complaint to the craft store’s Facebook page:

There is nothing decorative about raw cotton. A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves. A little sensitivity goes a long way.
PLEASE REMOVE this decor.
The post received close to 15,000 shares and 160,000 comments. The user, Daniell Rider, then received backlash for her sensitivity and responded to her critics:
All those who are offended by cotton being a decoration need to quit buying any product made of cotton!
And other users quickly came to her defense, one adding:
What difference does it make if it’s a decoration or part of a product. You’re being hypocritical if your offended by cotton being a decoration and not offended by any product made of cotton.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; cotton; hobbylobby; snowflakes; usefulidiots
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To: RoosterRedux

101 posted on 09/19/2017 6:42:38 AM PDT by dmcnash (Back off! I'm a Scientist.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Like we’re going to listen to people who eat their boogers when the Food Stamps run out...


102 posted on 09/19/2017 6:49:22 AM PDT by Gargantua (The wheel is spinnin' and it can't slow down... ;^)
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To: EBH

Your point is a little different then what I was thinking but after reading it, you may be closer to the truth then I am.

By encouraging blacks to act hostile to every real or perceived slight, there is never going to be a time the two (white/blacks) reach a point of mutual understanding and respect.

The left is willing to bankrupt our nation on welfare as long as it removes ambition from the next generation of blacks.

The left is willing to see our cities destroyed rather that allow blacks to grow and prosper in a vibrant economy.

The left is willing to destroy our education system to get the next generation ignorant.

The list goes on.

It is not conservatives that want to block blacks from achieving the American Dream, it is the left.

It is almost seems like they are working to some sort of plan.


103 posted on 09/19/2017 6:51:13 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: RoosterRedux

It is so unfortunate that cotton is ... white.


104 posted on 09/19/2017 6:53:25 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: RoosterRedux

Responses to a stupid post does not constitute people clamor in for any end to cotton....it was making a point about irony


105 posted on 09/19/2017 6:57:43 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: RoosterRedux

HEMP!


106 posted on 09/19/2017 6:58:36 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: RoosterRedux
Is it time to start stocking up on cotton items?

I hope this insanity will fade quickly and doesn't get established like us using alphabet words.

107 posted on 09/19/2017 7:04:44 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: Steely Tom

Now that you mentioned it, I do not recall B. Obama having ever raved against cotton. Nor has Hillary.


108 posted on 09/19/2017 7:05:53 AM PDT by apocalypto
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To: RoosterRedux

Offer her a job in the cotton fields - voluntary of course. I bet she wouldn’t be able to keep it. When she gets fired she would sue for discrimination.


109 posted on 09/19/2017 7:12:29 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: VanDeKoik
That's offensive to barrel makers and hat makers, the socks with the male garters, is just male attire offensive.
110 posted on 09/19/2017 7:14:45 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: RoosterRedux

“A woman in Texas”

Do NOT CARE!! Why do we allow idiots a platform?! This stupid woman should be shamed and ridiculed like the moronoic op-ed college students writing in their useless school newspapers. It’s insane to listen to anything these people say!


111 posted on 09/19/2017 7:17:45 AM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
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To: FatherofFive

How about tobacco???


112 posted on 09/19/2017 7:23:26 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: RoosterRedux

My tighty-whiteys are racist?

I’ve got a white cat, guess his time is coming At least he is no longer a real male, maybe I can slip him through.


113 posted on 09/19/2017 7:33:53 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: ridesthemiles
How about tobacco???

Ban Tobacco. Ban SEX - without sex there would not have been any new slaves.

114 posted on 09/19/2017 7:44:42 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: cyclotic

I’m in the suburbs. No worries. I’ll keep your advice though if I end up where I really want to go...Alaska! Copied and saved in my survival folder.


115 posted on 09/19/2017 8:00:19 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Daniell Rider, it is better to appear a fool than to open your mouth and confirm it.

Why are we allowing the least educated and most bigoted group of people in country to dictate the rules of society?

Cotton Balls Matter!

116 posted on 09/19/2017 8:02:55 AM PDT by HotHunt
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To: yldstrk

***white people picked cotton too,***

Reminds me of an old song chorus.

“But I never picked cotton.
But my mother did, and my brother did and my sister did,
And my daddy died young, workin in a coal mine.”


117 posted on 09/19/2017 8:04:58 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: RoosterRedux

I see plenty of cotton when I visit my BIL in North Carolina. I don’t see any slaves picking it. “Daniell Rider” is a liar and a stupid, ignorant, worthless little cxxx.


118 posted on 09/19/2017 8:05:01 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: pepsionice

It’s artificial-I was thinking about buying some at while at Hobby Lobby yesterday. It’s brown tape wrapped around a wire stem. Just like ever other artificial floral/greenery product. The cotton bolls are just cotton balls attached to the stem.


119 posted on 09/19/2017 8:07:38 AM PDT by NorthstarMom
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To: RoosterRedux

Let them take all cotton out of their own lives for 6 months and ask them again.


120 posted on 09/19/2017 8:08:24 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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