Posted on 01/28/2023 9:55:21 AM PST by thecodont
This occurred in a time when a farmer with twenty children used his own children as defacto slaves. They were whipped if they didn't do exactly what Father said to do.
My Grandfather who I never knew was born in 1870. My Dad was an infant on a quilt under an oak tree while the whole family picked cotton in the field. My aunts were just teenagers. As Dad grew older, he worked in the fields until he left to go ti the CCC Work Camps in California. Dad told me that he remembered a Black family worked at the other end of the field. I'm not equating my family with enduring slavery but my relatives picked cotton to survive in the rural South just the same as Black families. Slaves also worked to survive.
Putting your modern-day understanding and precepts on bygone times is revisionist history.
PULEEZE!
Ridiculous. Heard/used the term all my life (73 years old) and NEVER meant it racially or took it to be raciss.
BULLSHIRT!
Pack it up. Our nation has gone crazy!
We need to stop apologizing and start letting these people know they are crazy and we will not participate in their delusions.
“... but don’t want to use swear words. It usually stands in for the word damn.”
Correct. It’s much as when I say “Son of a biscuit-eater, you fixed it!” upon the occasion of my husband repairing something I thought was beyond repair. There are many such saying as this which when used in such a manner have no actual meaning other than being substitute words! If that phrase is suddenly taken to mean something else, can I no longer use it?
“Wait a cotton-picking minute” has been used for decades in different ways, many times to mean “stop what you are doing”, “hold that thought” or “hesitate before you act”. As in “Wait a cotton-picking minute before we try to do this. Let me think if this is the best thing to do”. “Cotton-picking” can be a replacement for “damn” or with the added words of “Wait-a” (as most commonly used) to mean just “Hold on”.
There is no telling how many words or phrases have been repurposed over the years and just become part of the lexicon with no one knowing the original reason for the word being used in such a manner.
For instance, the history of a word such as “gay”. That word has changed or had meanings added over the years that for some time people weren’t first aware of when they continued to use it in the then known manner. I hate the fact that it has been corralled into being a word you can’t say unless you use the proper connotation.
“We will have a gay old time” no longer has the same meaning as it previously did. We have to stop letting people tell us that there are words or phrases that some people cannot utter unless they use it in the current progressive manner.
like a cotton pickin’ soldier?
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My version was ‘a Continental soldier’.
I’m white. I’ve picked cotton. And I’ve handed tobacco.
Cotton picking, chicken plucking, sheep shearing, shifty eyed, pigeon-toed, mangy dipstick.
That and the TRUTH.
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The truth is but an inconvenient annoyance for the Left. They have an army of propagandists, liars and spinners working for them (the media, the education apparatus, many corporations, etc.) so contravening truth is just a minor nuisance for them.
What they really fear is the few people who are willing to confront them like Trump, DeSantis, and Jim Jordan. Notice how the flak intensifies around their harshest critics.
Those most offended have probably picked cotton...but only out of an aspirin bottle.
I’ve heard it that way too, but only a few years ago,
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