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.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:
PLEASE REMOVE this decor.
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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The issue is never the issue. The issue is always The Revolution.
-Saul Alinsky
They're following in the footsteps of their demonic master.
First and last time I saw darkies picking cotton by hand was 1968, on a trip through south Arkansas.
Everywhere else I had seen cotton grown (NM and Texas) they used machines.
***Cotton is cool,***
I am reminded of an OLD pre-Air Conditioning joke most people today will not get.
What does a woman and a dog have in common? In the hot summer they both need muslin.
That’s my dream trip too. We have some friends at church who are working toward moving to a small village as missionaries. They spent many years in mexico, so they know how to live very simply.
A bunch of guys went to the village to help fix up the house they bought last month. Another trip is probably needed and I told them I want to go.
The village is also on the Iditarod route. We follow the race every year and really want to see it.
We already have an offer of floor space at their house.
HEMP?
HOW RACISt! you know how much hemp can be turned into rope! And Rope was used to hang things from!
Wait! I’ve got a cotton rope in my barn! I’m Rei-cis! But I counter it with my nylon rope in my shed! Unfortunately it stretches and won’t stay tight.
***The cotton bolls are just cotton balls attached to the stem.***
I bought some cotton balls for medicinal purposes several years ago. I noticed they were Artificial Cotton! Is that OK?
Just imagine maintaining mutually exclusive beliefs simultaneously — “I’m not a racist who judges people because of race / I cannot be a racist because I’m black but you’re racist because you’re white” or “everything that offends me must be removed from my sight / I’m tolerant” are examples. The result is a kind of madness, an insanity.
Sane people can comprehend madness for everyone has a little cray cray in their lives. Many ordinary crazy people can still appreciate sanity because they may not be totally insane.
But when an ideology drives one into functional madness the mind erects barriers to protect the inconsistent reality that they have accepted. These excuse and accommodate problems with their ideology rather than examine and permit refutation. In this way they are unlike proverbial frogs in frying pans. A frog, incapable of self-delusion, jumps out and avoids death while humans will excuse and rationalize their way to being fried alive.
The upshot is that this sort of madman progressively loses even the ability to realize they are lunatics. Instead everyone who is sane is seen as alternately insane or (more likely) evil.
And all the generations that have come before are likewise judged evil, subject to historical revision and removal from view ... to correct the record of course, not to eliminate history.
This last, though, is demonstrated false BECAUSE these same people lust to spatter the names of folks they fancy were like them all over the place. At least the Islamists are sane enough, liars though they may be, to realize that they may be engaged in a civilizational conflict. PCdiots lack even that.
I bet the farmers today actually avoid hiring blacks because of the media’s reaction if they seen him.
There was plastic over the top of the stems so I didn’t touch the bolls-they could have been polyester for all I know.
I don’t think they’re even real, just mock-ups, so she got ‘triggered’ by some fake stick made in China.
Etsy needs shuttin’ down, too.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/258092105/cotton-boll-stems-set-of-5-20-cotton
yep
these people are ignorance on parade...
There used to be a TV show - I think it was called ‘Unwrapped’ - that took you behind the scenes of prepared food manufacturing. That was fascinating, but had nothing on these farm machines.
Industrial looms are amazing, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E__Jrh5Pnhs
That’s an interesting story.
Back in 1962-1963, I picked green beans with other WHITE migrant workers for 1 cent a pound. 90 degrees, 75% humidity. Most I ever made was $5 dollars in one day.
Then the weather got dry and I never made over $2.80 in one day even though I picked the same number of beans.
Brother passed out in the fields, we decided to get educated and get the H*** out of there! We did.
I still eat green beans.
I’ve been wanting some for awhile as I’m caught up in the farmhouse style trend. We are in the midst of a remodel (a long DIY process) and it seems silly to create a centerpiece or other vignette amid sawhorses, wood planks and cans of primer and paint. Still want some though-stood at the display debating whether or not to buy some.
Was at Hobby Lobby to get hooks for the mudroom and couldn’t resist a stroll through the store. One room that, other than the floor, is close to completion-yay!! It has (faux) shiplap, farmhouse trim and all.
I personally can see how this could be made into a very attractive arrangement.
You probably should snatch it up before it’s outlawed.
Just a few years ago HL carried rebel flag bandannas.
When Haley started this mess, they sold out the next morning and then never restocked them.
I was really disappointed by their decision to not carry them anymore so I’m not very confident the cotton stems will survive very long.
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