[JoeProBono]

[Jewbacca]

I need to remember this next Passover Seder when we get to the bitter herbs.

[Responsibility2nd]

From the “What were they Thinking?” file.

[al baby]

This Country is with in a red &%^$#$ hair of full blown civil war !!!

[MamaB]

So what? I have picked cotton and I am not Black. Everyone should do it at least once in their lifetime.

[Sacajaweau]

Plenty of white folks picked cotton.

[Usagi_yo]

It was an over reach in presenting this as a way to see what it feels like to have been a slave. Perhaps they should have had it as an exercise to see what it was like to be an indigent laborer.

[defconw]

Her grandparents were raised on a plantation? I am 50 years old and my great grandmother was born in 1881, for crying out loud! But this child’s grandparents are over 150 years old? LOL

[Grams A]

We have some cotton fields growing not far from where I live. When it’s cotton pickin’ time the farmers hire high school kids and pays them well to handpick what the mechanical pickers miss. Lots of kids look forward to this as a chance to earn some extra money and there is an abundance of Black, white and Hispanic kids.

No big deal down here - but this is Texas.

[bubbacluck]

I need to invent a pill that when taken will grow a thicker skin. I’ll be rich!

[pallis]

Funny! When I was 12 I had a summer job hoeing weeds on a cotton farm. I didn’t feel exploited, but then I was a little white boy.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The act of picking cotton tells you what it was like to be a slave...? Jeez Louise!...Someone please find these idiots their missing brains!

[Osage Orange]

"My daughter is African American and for her to pick cotton when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton, is not OK, it's not OK at all,"

What year is it, right now??? Have I woke up in the 1930's or something?

[Keli Kilohana]

I am a West Virginia. If someone asked my son to handle coal, there would be h-e-double hockey sticks to pay!!

[Black Agnes]

Both of my (mostly white) parents picked cotton as kids. My dad’s family were sharecroppers. He’s pestering me to find and order some cotton seeds so my kids can see what it was like to chop cotton and pick cotton.

This lady and her kid sound like losers.

[GeronL]

my dad picked cotton as a child in the 30’s - they had to eat

[cidrasm]

"My daughter is African American and for her to pick cotton when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton, is not OK, it's not OK at all,"

This is 2014. Maybe I'm just terribly misinformed, but I call BS on this statement. Somehow I missed blacks raised on a plantation in the 70s or 80s (or 90s)

[petitfour]

Maybe this woman needs more Prozac.

Is she ignorant or what? Does she wear clothes? Does she have towels and sheets?

[moviefan8]

Well, this is a good example of why this country is in trouble. Americans these days do not like to work.

[Popman]

Overall a pretty dumb idea....

I suggest they do a reenactment of the end of Spartacus....

Romans knew how to deal with slaves.....

[luvbach1]

...her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton...

Then they must have been paid farm hands because no child alive today has grandparents who were slaves on a plantation.