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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My father was a white cotton farmer, really a sharecropper. He picked cotton by hand as a boy in Mississippi before the machines came
“Cotton pickin†belongs to the world. I even think that the great philosopher Foghorn Leghorn used the expression.
I have never before heard farmers referred to collectively as white trash. I don't think that phrase means what you think it means.
Why do you say that? There were thousands of whites who picked cotton. Maybe more than blacks. That's what people did in the south.
There were thousands of blacks who owned slaves. There were thousands of whites who picked cotton.
Funny
Farmers were never considered white trash. The poor white neither owned land to farm of a house that they owned. Look up poor white in google.
Unfortunately I think it's just getting started.
The phrase “cotton-picking” has long been specifically used for its innocence and humor. Think of Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Someone decided it was a bad word some 5 minutes ago when they decided everything is racist. Since it is a Southern phrase, ignorant people are buying this new propaganda.
Isn’t it somewhat racist to assume only black people pick cotton?
I have picked cotton and I am white.
A job was a job when I was a kid.
Count me here, boss man. And tobacco too.
My Scots-Irish grandmother and grandaunts all picked cotton in Oklahoma when they were kids.
“Remember the Black Gongresscritter who years ago made a big deal out of someone using the word “niggardly””?”
Yes and I also remember the Dallas Commissioner going off the deep end over someone using the term “black hole” in a budget discussion and demanding apologies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJtGKb_bZyc
OHFERGAWDSAKE!
Because that was the truth. I am not talking about whites that owned land, I am talking about whites that owned no land. Had very little if any education, that picked cotton for white farmers who had no slaves, or after the Civil War were sharecroppers who were virtually slaves by a different name. They were often referred to as poor white, and often times white trash. They were shunned by a large portion of the white population who wanted very little if any association with them. Even today some whites are labeled as white trash. Though it has changed somewhat from the days of the old south, as to those who wear that label.
It’s a saying up in Michigan too. My Grandma and aunts used to say it. To white people.
FYI: Picking cotton has been white people work since at least as far back as the Depression.
People on welfare and lazy people do not pick cotton. It is hard work.
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