BART director punished for 'cotton-picking' comment during meeting

San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Jan. 26, 2023 Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 10:07 a.m. | Eric Ting , SFGATE

[freedumb2003]

>> “I find the work that Maceo is doing right now to be so cotton-picking inspirational,” McPartland said.<<

That was mighty white of him.

[dfwgator]

I am moving to North Korea.

Looks like we're already there.

[DesertRhino]

MY mom and uncles did that. The machines would harvest first, and then people walked the rows with bags getting all that you can see was missed. They got paid by the bag.

The lingo is still around. “Fair to middling” as a synonym for just ok. That was a grade of quality for cotton.

[A Navy Vet]

Is there any word in any dictionary that can't be construed as racist, sexist, or some other kind of bias?

Gimme a word and I'll show you how it can be parsed into something negative within some obscure context. Try the article THE or the conjunction AND or the conjunction OR. Then you have the determiner word "a" that is defined as "used to indicate membership of a class of people or things. "he is a lawyer"

I hate scholars.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You've got to love the name! "Maceo Wiggins"

Sounds like a fanciful name the old Looney Tunes crew would have dreamed up.

[napscoordinator]

They were the only ones forced to though usually by whipping if they stop for any reason even to stretch a second.

[noiseman]

Where did you find all those photos of black caucasians picking cotton?

[Calvin Cooledge]

My very white mom, who grew up poor, picked cotton as a kid in South Texas (Beeville)

[SkyDancer]

White children picked cotton back in the day.

[HYPOCRACY]

Inappropriate use of ‘cotton picking’. A more appropriate use would have been, “that douchebag is out of his cotton picking mind”, followed by a gentle cattle prod to his ass. He would have brought down the house.

[thegagline]

Because whites never picked cotton.

/sarcasm

[dfwgator]

followed by a gentle cattle prod to his ass.

Knowing San Francisco, he'd probably enjoy that.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Freaky picture with ghost kids in it!

[Sequoyah101]

All the way to my wife and the 60s her family picked cotton. They sure are not black.

All this woke crap and sensitivity is just plan foolish nonsense. Stupidity.

I will never apologize for use of euphemisms.

[thecodont]

“The lingo is still around. ‘Fair to middling’ as a synonym for just ok. That was a grade of quality for cotton.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/talk-like-a-texan-what-do-we-mean-by-fair-to-middlin/

[Kriggerel]

Jeez, good thing he didn’t give a give a fellow councillor a fresh bottle of aspirin. What if they had to (horror of horrors) pull the cotton ball off of the top after opening it?

[plain talk]

Wait a cotton picking moment. People of all races have picked cotton.

[higgmeister]

My two spinster aunts picked cotton as teenage girls.   That was before the Great Depression.

[HotKat]

So happy to be living in the land of cotton.

[married21]

I learned this song as a kid. I had no idea it was racist.

Do your ears hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them over your shoulder like a cotton pickin’ soldier?
Do your ears hang low?