Posted on 06/24/2018 3:23:45 PM PDT by fhayek
News is distancing itself from a racist remark made by one of its paid commentators on Sunday.
The commentator, David Bossie, was arguing on "Fox & Friends" with Democratic strategist Joel Payne, who is black. He told Payne, "you're out of your cotton-picking mind."
Payne was stunned by the remark. He told Bossie had had "some relatives who picked cotton, and I'm not going to sit back and let you attack me on TV like that."
Bossie, a veteran conservative activist, was a deputy campaign manager on the Trump campaign. He also served as a deputy director of Trump's transition team. He joined Fox News in February 2017.
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Tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of Whites have had this comment made to them.
Does that mean someone was accusing us of being Black?
LOL, the absurdities are legion these days.
‘We Should Have Picked Our Own Damn Cotton’
my posting history would reveal many such utterances...
What total nonsense! It’s an expression and i’ve heard it all my life used among whites.
Mine too.
Of course whites picked cotton! I’m sick of these reverse racist phonies. He’s nuts for apologizing.
Maybe we should watermelons too.
Years ago, a black coworker got angry at me when I used the term “shine it on.” He told me it was a derogatory reference to blacks shining shoes. Oh well, shine it.
It was from the perspective a poor WHITE guy who came from a family that picked cotton.
The singer wanted more excitement out of life than just picking cotton, "in that Oklahoma sun".
Cotton industry executives now asked to stay away from the Red Hen.
I had no idea of the origin of that saying until someone else flipped out over it.
Did whites ever pick cotton was that only done by blacks. I assume now days cotton is pick by sophisticated machines with well trained equipment operators.
So Payne won’t be buying anything cotton ever again because——TRIGGER!!!!!!! Oh noes!!!!!!!
They were lots of white cotton pickers also. Not racial to me.
Actually it happened in the Washington DC City Government (1998) when a senior white staffer used the word and was beset by black colleagues and staffers as using a racist term. The newly elected Mayor Anthony Williams (non-white) succumbed to the pressure and fired the victim, David Howard.
The irony became much hotter when it turned out that Mr Howard was also a member of a victim group, being an out-of-the-closet homosexual and the most senior one in the DC City Government at that. Mr Howard was rehired shortly afterwards when a 'review' came to this conclusion; "The review also showed that one of our employees did misunderstand Mr Howard to have used a racial epithet.''
Payne already is perpetually offended. While I didn’t hear what David sai, I listened to most of the segment and that Payne guy was holier than thou calling us Nazis etc and trying to provoke the audience
That is exactly correct... NEVER apologized for the truth.. They're just playing us for saps..!
“The phrase used to be commonly used without any intent of association with any particular race”
Yep, and my lilly white Dad and his four Brothers all picked cotton in the blazing hot Summers in the 1940’s and early 50’s in the Corcoran CA area.
The left IS perpetually offended. Remember the bus company in Pittsburgh who used the terms “Ziggin and Zaggin”? Read them backwards and you are a Freaking Racist bastard. Jumping Jehoshaphat!
To save his job? was he told he had to? All the snowflakes can go live on a desert island..
While they can threaten the President’s son... run Trump’s people out of a restaurant.. hate like I’ve never seen hate before.. rude like I’ve never seen rude before... disrespect.. and they are upset over ‘cotton pickin”??????
Would I have apologized? NO! If they have a racist problem when I don’t even think down that line... it’s their problem ... go find their safe place to cry.
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