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Washington mother upset her daughter was asked to pick cotton in class
upi ^ | April 30, 2014 | Evan Bleier

Posted on 04/30/2014 2:43:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono

REDMOND , Wash. A mother in Washington is upset after a teacher at her daughter’s middle school allegedly gave students an assignment that required them to pick cotton so that they could "see what it was like to be a slave."

Carolyn Walker called Redmond Middle School to inform them that her daughter would not be doing the assignment and later found out the teacher gave her daughter an F.

"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," Walker told KIRO 7. "It's not just about my daughter, all races should not have to participate in this. It's wrong, it's absolutely wrong."

According to the Lake Washington School District, the lesson was about “the impact that the invention of the cotton gin had on the Industrial Revolution."

Walker has scheduled a meeting with the teacher and the principal where she will request that the cotton lesson be dropped from the school’s curriculum.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; cotton; herstory; likelystories; plantation; slave; washington
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To: JoeProBono

How is her daughter going be able to pick cotton when they don’t plant cotton in Redmond. Redmond is just a suburban development of Seattle with Microsoft quartered there. I don’t know maybe ‘dem’ cotton fields are in Microsoft.


61 posted on 04/30/2014 3:24:20 PM PDT by Vinylly (?)
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62 posted on 04/30/2014 3:24:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

I believe that made a difference between blacks and whites who picked cotton. There was no sheriff around where whites pick cotton. In other words, blacks were forced and whites simply did it to make ends meet. I could be wrong, please correct me.


63 posted on 04/30/2014 3:25:03 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: JoeProBono

At least it is honest work.


64 posted on 04/30/2014 3:26:15 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: JoeProBono

wow how in the hell could they be picking cotton and walking barefeet on that soil?


65 posted on 04/30/2014 3:26:17 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: JoeProBono

At least it is honest work.


66 posted on 04/30/2014 3:26:18 PM PDT by uncitizen
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67 posted on 04/30/2014 3:26:24 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

Is she supposed to take a field trip to Alabama? Where in Washington state is cotton grown?


68 posted on 04/30/2014 3:29:06 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: Keli Kilohana

Why? It would be a learning experience. I was born in MS and have lived in AL since 1966. I have no idea how coal is mined. Doing it once might just make a good education more appealing. When my daughter moved to Seattle, people asked if cotton grew on trees down here. When my younger brother was on a train going back to camp, a friend from NY did not know what cows and horses were. I find that kinda sad. There are many things I have not seen though.


69 posted on 04/30/2014 3:29:36 PM PDT by MamaB
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To: JoeProBono

“when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton”

The 13th Amendment was put in place 149 years ago. Either this girl’s got some really old grandparents, or her mom is full of crap.


70 posted on 04/30/2014 3:30:40 PM PDT by Durbin
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71 posted on 04/30/2014 3:31:52 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

...” for her to pick cotton when her grandparents were raised on a plantation to pick cotton”

I do not believe for a single second that a 7 year old girl has grand parents who were raised on a plantation (considering they pretty well were gone after the civil war). Perhaps her great grand parents were truck farmers but even that was n’t forced labor.

Obviously this mother thinks it is beneath her or her daughter to have to do ag work of any kind. Too bad it is an honorable profession


72 posted on 04/30/2014 3:32:42 PM PDT by Nifster
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I've picked a bit of cotton. Hard work..and will tear your hands up.

I pick blackberries now...and it will tear your hands up...and turn your mouth purple.

73 posted on 04/30/2014 3:33:08 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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74 posted on 04/30/2014 3:35:10 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: JoeProBono

Your school district at work.


75 posted on 04/30/2014 3:35:12 PM PDT by Ray76
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To: JoeProBono

My mother picked cotton and she wasn’t a slave.

Liberals are ignorant and stupid.


76 posted on 04/30/2014 3:35:38 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: defconw

I’m 81 years old and my grandmother was born in 1880.

The lies are unending.

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77 posted on 04/30/2014 3:37:20 PM PDT by Mears
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To: 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

She might be delusional, or her grandparents might have been sharecroppers and she equates that with slavery.

78 posted on 04/30/2014 3:37:44 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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79 posted on 04/30/2014 3:40:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: defconw

That was my first reaction as well. My grand mother (may God grant her peace) was born in October of 1888. In watching the news feed this mother is NO where near my age (and she speaks valley girl lingo...you know??) so either her grand parents are related to Methusala or she is just as nuts as she seems


80 posted on 04/30/2014 3:43:48 PM PDT by Nifster
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