Yeah, what's wrong with singling out black kids from the rest of the class and encouraging them to feel like slaves, right?
Posted on 02/28/2019 3:40:45 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Virginia first lady Pam Northam apologized Wednesday after she handed out cotton to black children during a recent tour of the governor's mansion, the latest racial controversy involving the top levels of state government.
Northam handed out the cotton while showing students an adjacent cottage to the residence that had once served as a kitchen, asking them to imagine picking the crop as enslaved Africans.
"I regret that I have upset anyone," Northam said. "I am still committed to chronicling the important history of the Historic Kitchen, and will continue to engage historians and experts on the best way to do so in the future."
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Nope, only to the black kids.
Yeah, what's wrong with singling out black kids from the rest of the class and encouraging them to feel like slaves, right?
RE comment:
I would imagine it’s pretty routine to let people see and feel what cotton bolls feel like.
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Anthony Weiner offered to accompany her and do that. She said she would do it herself for the children.
My Uber-Leftist employee said something to me that just stunned me. We were discussing how his favorite comedian got beat up on stage because one of his jokes offended somebody. He said, “You know, it’s comedy. It’s going to offend somebody. That’s just tough. I go to a show and he says something offensive...I don’t care.”
People who are looking for offense will find offense. They will find it where none was intended because being offended is power. Also, it gives people the opportunity to be drama queens when they expect to be applauded for it.
In my final two years in the working world I no longer talked to people I didn’t know well. None of us talked freely in front of people we didn’t know because if they took offense, or thought that somebody else might take offense, (yes, that was the published standard we were held to) we could have been fired. It’s a very scary world out there now.
Did this happen in Lynchburg?
Ha haaaaaa!!! You gotta love it when libturds get hoisted up on their own politically correct petards.
I don’t either. My (white) children have picked cotton at a local historic site. They’ve also ground corn and fed chickens. It was part of survival for both white and black people in this part of the country.
It would be weird only if Mrs. Northam singled out black children from those of other races.
culturally insensitive.
Frying chicken in oil or animal fat was invented by the Scottish. The African version added spicing but the pieces were not immersed. With the two preperations combined it is actually a Scottish in African preparation. Here’s the article...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_chicken
Was it Bill Hamm who at the Republican National Convention was speaking about his friend Donald Trump? He opened up his small speech with an introduction that he “grew up Barefoot and pickin’ cotton”
My bohunk granddaddy raised 13 kids milking cows and filling potholes in the road systems up in northern Michigan. And the cows weren’t even his own ... what is the freaking difference? Farm labor is Farm labor and it doesn’t pay well.
“Did she do it in blackface or white robe?”
Or did she get the go ahead from her husband “Coonman?”
Stews, rather than frying, are the typical African preparation, because the available fuels and technology in Africa did not produce a fire hot enough to boil fat. Frying - using a stove to generate a higher temperature - caught on in the South because it was a quick way to cook in hot weather.
I wasn’t upset over the cotton... however the whip was a smidgen over the limit...
She should have doubled-down by handing them watermellon.
“My Uber-Leftist employee said something to me that just stunned me. We were discussing how his favorite comedian got beat up on stage because one of his jokes offended somebody. He said, “You know, it’s comedy. It’s going to offend somebody. That’s just tough. I go to a show and he says something offensive...I don’t care.”
You mean like Chris Rock?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PJF0YE-x4
What are people thinking of when they do this?
In my opinion, she was thinking that any student visiting the site today could reasonably be grateful that he or she isn’t living the life of a similar person in the early 19th century.
I know I’m grateful, if only because, as P.J. O’Rourke observed, “Dentistry!”
Year ago there was a Show on TV that showed pasta trees. There were fettuccine trees, lasagne trees, spaghetti trees, elbow macaroni trees, fascinating I tell you.
Many kids do not know what raw cotton looks like. Most people have not seen miles of cotton fields. To me It is a beautiful sight. Mrs. Northam gave the students a good lesson by letting them see and touch raw cotton. Good for her. Some people are looking to be offended. Shame on them!
Cotton, as the ad stated is indeed the fabric of our lives.
You are asking the right questions. How is this even remotely wrong unless she exclusively singled out the black students to get the cotton?
And WHY does the article not make clear if this was done, while implying it was? That is absolutely journalistic malpractice.
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