Posted on 02/27/2019 5:42:02 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
A state employee complained that the wife of embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam reportedly handed the students cotton and asked them “if they could imagine what it must have been like to pick cotton all day.”
Leah Dozier Walker, an official in the state Department of Education, said that the incident demonstrates that the Northams have not learned from past actions.
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Nice recitation of a history.
My only story in a minorly similar way is that I had a Great Uncle who had a fruit farm.
He let the visiting kids set up a fruit stand just down the road from the farm and let us spend a day selling fruit we had picked from his orchards.
We also got to take additional picked fruit home to sell from our front yard the next day.
100% PROFIT!
It was short lived each year, but GREAT!
In retrospect, the Uncle was a Capitalistic subversive...
The Democrats are responsible for creating this environment, so they can suffer according to their rules.
“For ‘tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard”
Not a bad idea in those cases but the cotton thing...??
The former, flight and light, OK. The latter, not so good but perhaps an incentive to work harder in school! (smirk)
Looks like “coon man,” may have a “coon woman” for a wife!
Funny, but you can’t do that anymore
SAD.
Well Squire McGavin, I’m a fellow Scots person with thu fair skin, and ya not be thu only one who picked that prickly fluff. I picked it in Tenn. as a child alongside the Darkies who taught me well how not to be stabbin yur fingers. Rose would pick two rows at a time and I picked one. It twas a major challenge to keep up with Rose, but I never achieved that speed. When I began to fall behind I would start to whine. She never put up with that. She said, “Don’t you be quitten on me now girl.” And for some reason I would begin to gain ground. One day I realized that she would pick a lot of my row along with her two until I caught up. Oh how I loved that woman. She made me the strong woman I am, She taught me more about God and the Holy Ghost than anyone else in my life.
Totally funny...
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Lots of well meaning people have something in their distant past that could be spun as insensitive or thoughtless when viewed from the prism of modern standards of behavior. I'm sure that this happened years and years ago...
... during a recent tour of the governor’s mansion
Oh sweet mercy these people are morons. Better see what Al Sharpton's going rates for racial absolution are.
When I was stationed, USAF, in northern Maine, the potatoes needed picking. A healthy young person could pick 100 barrels a day and earn $.30 per barrel. That would be $30.00 per day and one month of hard work would earn $600.00. The spending power of $600.00 in 1964 was the equivalent of $4,494.00 today.**
The season was short but many of the guys would try to time their leave to coincide with “pickin’ potatoes in Aroostook County, Maine.”
** the dollar value in 1965 was $7.49 today.
A Captain, with flight pay was taking home about $800.00
was it Egyptian cotton?
I think all of the above are good descriptors.
What base were you at in N.Maine, Bat? I was at Loring AFB many times back in the early 80s with my husband’s band at the NCO club. Knew a lot of people around that area.
Sounds like something a confused virtue signalling democrat would say.
My mother and her siblings had to pick cotton. White and indian heritage, here.
Ugh!
Touching cotton reminds me too of being a slave! The inhumanity!!!
Loring AFB, yes.
May 1964 until June 1966 when the 42nd Bomb wing was divided and my B-52 squadron was sent to Plattsburgh AFB, NY.
We considered it a “southern assignment” compared to Loring.
The Summer is one week longer in Plattsburgh.
Many happy memories of Loring. My first child, our daughter, was born in the base hospital.
When I graduated from pilot training they asked what area of the country would you like to be assigned. Being from New Jersey, I said, “the Northeast!” My first lesson in “you get what you ask for!” LOL
I used to “chop cotton” near Big Spring TX in the summer. I was used to high Houston humidity and the higher temperature in W Texas didn’t bother me because it was dry heat.
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