If You're White, Here's Something Else You're Not Supposed to Say.

[Strykervet]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/former-trump-adviser-uses-racist-slur-on-fox-news.html

Three talking heads on Fox, the guests were one white guy, one black guy, the topic was racism to some degree. The white guy responds to the black guy's statement, saying "you're out of you're cotton picking mind" and the black guy instantly played the race card and it led to the white guy posting on Shitter that he apologizes and how he never should have said that, etc., etc.

So there's something else you're not supposed to say. Or you can just say fuck it, not playing these games anymore.

My Granny said it quite often regardless of what color you where when she was alive. It's just one of those southern sayings. It's not racist. It's a common reply in the south by someone who feels the other is making incredulous statements.

And she remembers picking her own cotton; never met a black person that's picked cotton. Never. The only slave she had was a German POW one harvest and he was happy to be there.

So sick of this race shit and sick of how the media deals with it. All those motherfuckers do is throw fuel on a fire anymore, be it firearms, race, politics, whatever. Reporting, dead. Journalism, dead. Carnie huckster conmen? Alive and well. News my ass, it's pop-propaganda is what it is. "The Enquirer" had more quality stories.

 

[XLR308]

PRICELESS, all but the apology part.

My first job at the age of 12 was working cotton season in South Texas.
Worked 112 hours my first week and came to the realization I didn't want to be a farmer but good life experience.

 

[Alphatreedog]

White peple picked cotton . White people were slaves to company farms where the company owned the housing , food , tools and you name it they owned it . Didn't pick enough cotton or harvest enough crop and you owe the company . Only way to leave or quit is in a pine box . Talk shit and the enforcers would fuck you up . White Priviledge .

 

[Maser]

Let's face it folks. In this day and age of Liberal SJWs, ANYTHING can be construed as racist. I say fuck it and roll with it and laugh at the whiny bitches who get triggered over the stupidest shit! Free entertainment is usually the best entertainment.

 

[Veer_G]

Stryker, did you work fast food before you went in?

 

[snbyiggidy1]

This crap has gotten so old. The reality is no matter what you do you offend someone. So tired of the race card being used. None of us alive today have been or have owned slaves. Think it might be time to move on and maybe grow some thicker skin. Just an idea.

 

[Deleted member 10043]

My mother picked cotton and she was a white Texan.

 

[j-huskey]

I picks my own cotton, damn the lazy people who ride around the fields.... see next pic...

 

[j-huskey]

Meanwhile, later in the evening, approaching dark.....

 

[RNWRKNP]

I’m offended by this offense because I find it offensive and if I have offended you I apologize......

 

[Sean the Nailer]

That saying isn't just a "Southern" thing. We say it up here in Canada, too. Even up in Northern Canada, right close to Alaska. I've heard that, and said that myself, over 40 years ago up there.

So it ain't just copyrighted by ya'll. Decent HUMANS from all over speak english. (see what I did there?)

 

[Yasherka]

He SHOULD have said "You're out of your tiny fucking mind", but then I suppose the midgets would have taken offense

 

[Veer_G]

He SHOULD have said "You're out of your tiny fucking mind", but then I suppose the midgets would have taken offense

Shh. Little pitchers have big ears.

 

[EGwhisper]

My great-great grandfather was killed on a cotton plantation where he worked.... Fell off the water tower trying to shoot an escaping slave.

 

[Veer_G]

I keep my Mercator K55K in my wallet because it's slim like a pancake. I guess any Douk-Douk- like knife is a great choice if this is a strong factor. You have to like the retro-look though.

What the fuck does that have to do with the price of raw cotton at the mill?

 

[RNWRKNP]

What the fuck does that have to do with the price of raw cotton at the mill?

??? Whats in your wallet???

 

[Veer_G]

??? Whats in your wallet???

A very dry, dusty, and cracked condom.

 

[Arc Light]

I'll be sure to work that phrase in as much as I can now.

I consider it my honor and duty to piss off SJW's as frequently as possible.

 

[Redmanss]

I'd rather not be a hypocrite and call out stupidity when I see it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...hits-clinton-off-reservation-remark/83820070/

He could have owned that debate if he stuck to facts rather than resorting to playground name calling.

 

[Spblademaker]

It would have been better if he said, “Let’s not try to white-wash this. It’s mighty niggarldy of you to say that, but I think you’re out of your cotton picking mind.”

That would be about the time you actually saw someone’s liberal head explode on TV.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Around my work place, we say cotton picker instead of cock sucker , HR approves .

 

[MtnCreek]

They should look back on their ancestors cotton picking days with pride. At least they worked.

 

[buffalowinter]

I would be willing to bet there were far more white sharecropper cotton pickers than black...especially after the civil war.

This is basically the plot of the "Grapes of Wrath". White sharecroppers and farmers forced out of the "dust bowl" from years of failing to rotate cotton crops. "Cotton-picking mind" was never a racial epithet.

Here is a picture of my "White Privilege"...coal miners...never knew my grandfather...died from poison gas in a coal mine.

 

[Stevo86]

My dad and grandparents all picked cotton growing up.

 

[vh20]

My dad started picking cotton when he was six. All of his brothers and sisters had to pick cotton as well...by hand. I've heard the phrase "out of your cotton-picking mind" all my life. There has never been a racial tone attached to it, and it has always been said from one white person to another. It's a polite substitution for a curse word, just like "dang" or "heck."

The short version of this event is that the white guy made a tactical error in using that phrase, even though there was really nothing wrong with it. The tactical error is that he said it to a black guy who was politically astute enough to seize the opportunity and capitalize on it (and willing to be totally disingenuous about the racist aspect), and put him on defense. At that point, the argument was lost regardless of the merits. I've seen that black guy debate before, and the truth holds no attraction for him at all.

 

[Strykervet]

I hear 'ya. I grew up in AL, maybe 30 miles from where KKK started in Pulaski, TN (never saw a KKK dude). Most racism I'm personally familiar with has to do with me getting my ass beat by gangs of black guys, once a gang of illegals, and losing two great jobs due to EEOE. One of my best friends growing up was a black kid and I had several black friends at school, the ones that didn't beat my ass. I lived with a black family in Texas for a while. If I bring that up now, it's "oh, he's got a black friend so he's not racist" or some shit. Whatever, that guy was like a brother to me, he watched out for me, and I give a fuck about race but to some it's the end all be all. It doesn't matter how many black friends you've had or how you feel, you'll be judged for life by one wrong comment or one taken out of context. And they love to drag people into their shit and use "gotcha's" whenever possible. Like the "cotton picking mind" statement.

Post S1, went to get leave unfucked, they charged me for medical leave and I couldn't get it fixed. Explained to the guy at the counter that "You people are the ones that screwed it up, you have to be the ones to fix it, my battalion can't". He never got past "you people" and I literally had to explain that you people included him and that whole office and had fuck all to do with racism.

Racism, just can't die because someone is always willing to keep it on life support.

My friends never talked about it, maybe if we were joking or something, but never complaining. We all had similar jobs, worked same places, etc. And in H'ville AL, we all got pulled over for nothing equally, which was all the time. But in WA there aren't many black people and so in Seattle they're really into that super white trend of trying to find a black friend that they can apologize to. Like that Portland beer thing? Yeah.

Piss on racism of all facets.

 

[vh20]

I've never left AL. Dad grew up and picked cotton in Shorter, Notasulga, and Tuskegee (yes, that Tuskegee, famous center of advancement for blacks). If you think about it, in Tuskegee, the black kids were in college and he was picking cotton in the fields.

 

[j-huskey]

I've never left AL. Dad grew up and picked cotton in Shorter, Notasulga, and Tuskegee (yes, that Tuskegee, famous center of advancement for blacks). If you think about it, in Tuskegee, the black kids were in college and he was picking cotton in the fields.

And I grew up in that nice place, until they burned Tuskegee school, and saw country poorer whites treated so much lower than shit by those well tanned college kids, to the point the radio station WBIL openly derided country.
It was better to call your brother "n" than "country" in those days.
Tuskegee and Morehouse in Atl were interesting places.
All the Macon county poor blacks and poor whites were united in hating Tuskegee institute attendees and their professors....
And 75% of the Macon county whites looked like Buffalo Winters pic of white people picking cotton.....
The things most people don't know.... yep, Buffalo Winters pic shows the white privilege 75% of Macon county white people knew here. Thank God there were no mines....
Yes, white people picked cotton and black people sat in college in Tuskegee Al.....

Tuskegee, the only place a Wal-Mart had to close and leave from because the employees stole it blind.

 

[PPB]

Haven't seen you in a coons age.