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Our PC Culture Just Got Even More Ridiculous
Townhall.com ^ | April 24, 2018 | Bernard Goldberg

Posted on 04/24/2018 6:43:00 AM PDT by Michael.SF.

Russell Westbrook, was having another spectacular game. He had just made a pass setting up a basket -- one of a stunning 19 assists he made in the game -- when Davis put an exclamation point on the Westbrook pass, saying Westbrook was playing "out of his cotton-pickin' mind."

Davis is white and Westbrook is black, in case you haven't figured that out. And in case you have absolutely no knowledge of history, slaves once upon a time picked cotton in the South.

So reparations for the ugly past had to be paid, more than 150 years after slavery ended. How? By taking what passes for the moral high ground. The Thunder suspended Davis for one game. No fooling.

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To: ExTxMarine

PC is mind control. The control is a gambit to control language and thought.

Any one espousing PC is an American enemy and needs to be exterminated

We can not co exist


21 posted on 04/24/2018 7:27:09 AM PDT by bert (RE)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I and my family did, for YEARS! Well, technically, I was too young to “pick” cotton, so I “pulled” cotton. Of course, unless you have actually done that kind of work, you probably wouldn’t know the difference!

My paternal grandmother owned 65 acres of land in northeast Mississippi. Every year, I think usually in October, we would take two or three days out of school and pick cotton. My father used to say, “You want new school shoes? You will pick cotton!” He wasn’t kidding, either!


22 posted on 04/24/2018 7:30:38 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Brilliant quote.

L


23 posted on 04/24/2018 7:31:56 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The first, and last time I saw Darkies picking cotton the old fashioned way was on a trip by bus through South central Arkansas in 1968. I thought I was in the OLD SOUTH for a moment.

Most places out West Texas were using mechanical pickers.


24 posted on 04/24/2018 7:35:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sacajaweau
Plenty of whites picked cotton, too.

Both of my (white) parents picked cotton in their youth.

25 posted on 04/24/2018 12:29:05 PM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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