Posted on 01/28/2023 9:55:21 AM PST by thecodont
BART director John McPartland was censured by his peers Thursday for using the phrase "cotton-picking" at a board of directors meeting earlier this month.
McPartland made the remark while expressing his approval of a racial equity plan presented by Black staff members, a group that included Maceo Wiggins, the director of BART's Office of Civil Rights. "I find the work that Maceo is doing right now to be so cotton-picking inspirational," McPartland said.
McPartland did not respond to an SFGATE request for comment but told the San Francisco Standard weeks ago that he was ignorant of the connotations of the term with regard to African Americans and slavery.
“I plead ignorance, and I ended up having a talk with the deputy general manager, who gave me a quote out of a dictionary for [the term] that identified a degree of sensitivity for the African American community," he said. "I am sincerely sorry. I am acknowledging my ignorance and sincerely apologize."
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Never apologize to the woke zombies—it just makes them thirsty for more blood.
Censorship is fascism.
No more complicated than that.
I remember (long ago) seeing so many cartoons on TV with the phrase "get your cotton-pickin' hands off of me" I can't even count. I'm sure they've been censored by now.
“while expressing his approval of a racial equity plan presented by Black staff members, a group that included Maceo Wiggins, the director of BART’s Office of Civil Rights. “I find the work that Maceo is doing right now to be so cotton-picking inspirational,” McPartland said”
If he was tryin’ to be a smartass I’d say he succeeded........whether intentional or no it’s freakin’ hilarious none the less.
It wasn’t meant to insult or whatever...What about Hillary and her “Plantation” statement.
I am amazed of the ignorance of some people. Not everything is about you or your race. This is why we need to go back to the basics in school.
Wait a Cotton Picking Minute Meaning
Definition: Wait a gosh darn minute!
Origin of Cotton Picking Minute
Cotton-picking in this expression is a euphemism for a swear word, and it adds emphasis. People sometimes use this term in other cases, like keep your cotton-picking hands off of that. They use it when they want to use stronger language, but don’t want to use swear words. It usually stands in for the word damn.
Another use of cotton is keep your cotton picking hands off of me.
These phrases make more sense if you know a little about harvesting cotton. Picking cotton is a harsh, difficult task that leaves someone’s hands rough and calloused. Before the cotton gin or other mechanized approaches, this was done completely by hand, which left the workers hand extremely rough.
People of all races have picked cotton. All races. We have got to stop this nonsense.
Blacks are not the only cotton picking people who picked cotton.
Now just wait a cotton-pickin’ minute.
The cotton gin doesn't pick cotton. It separates the seeds and debris from the raw picked cotton.
Just ask Eli Whitney.
“Never apologize to the woke zombies”
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Leftists are bullies. Like bullies everywhere the one thing they fear is people who stand up to them.
I used that term at work once. Some woke anus gasped and said that was not a term you can say. I asked why. he said “Well, think about it, WHO picked cotton?”.
I said “well, for one mom did as a little kid in the early 1930s in Texas” And she was white.
The look was priceless.
Nice story!
There is a civil rights division of a public transportation bureaucracy?
I am moving to North Korea.
Now you wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute there, TG! You’re making sense and that’s not allowed.
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