Maybe the problem is that…people don’t have enough problems. We’re beginning to suspect that really is at the root of the cultural decay we’re seeing right now in America. Because in a country where there are real problems – starvation, mass homelessness, famine, plague, etc. – you don’t see this kind of thing. You don’t see people going out of their way to create drama out of thin air. They say that strength comes from adversity. Maybe the problem with the U.S. in 2017 is that many people simply don’t have enough adversity to overcome. We’re just staggering around in a state of numb boredom, looking around desperately for something – anything – that will make us feel halfway alive.
It’s a theory.
But there’s certainly something wrong, as demonstrated by the latest fake controversy – one that is once again aimed at a familiar target for American liberals: Ye Olde Hobby Lobby. This time, the retailer is in trouble not for their Christian beliefs or their stance on gay marriage, but for their racial insensitivity. Behold what Killeen, TX’s Daniell Rider had to say about a display of decorative cotton for sale in her local store:
“This decor is WRONG on SO many levels. There is nothing decorative about raw cotton. A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves,” she wrote. “A little sensitivity goes a long way. Please remove this decor.”
Now, we could excuse one moron for one moronic post; we couldn’t live our lives if we got up in arms about every stupid thing that people post on Facebook and Twitter. But this piece of nearly-poetic stupidity has been shared more than 15,000 times since it was first posted. And while we’re encouraged to report that the majority of people are treating it like the mental midgetry that it is, it has no small number of defenders.
“What do you expect from Hobby Lobby!!!?” asked one fool. “NEVER shop there!”
Yeah, stupid store with its stupid cotton – the material that makes up the lion’s share of our clothing and towels! What the hell were they thinking?
We’d like to imagine that even American liberals are smart enough not to fall for a war on cotton, but…it would be a false hope, wouldn’t it? These loons are out there cutting the heads off Christopher Columbus statues, kneeling for the national anthem, and calling justified police shootings “murder.” If there is a limit to their insanity, we haven’t seen it yet.
So yeah, we fully expect the Great Cotton Protests of 20XX to begin soon enough. Buckle up.
They call that a “decoration”? It looks like something that a 3rd grader would come up with during art class! I don’t find it offensive– just — worthless! I would never buy some useless shit like that. But then I would never shop any hobby lobby in the first place!
Frank, I have a feeling that there are no create juices flowing in your body. Oh, and Hobby Lobby is much better without you there.
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Maybe Frank needs to get A job and give up his welfare phone that we paid for Obumer gave him!
All he knows how to do is swear and call people filthy names.
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Frank, I have a feeling that there are no create juices flowing in your body. Oh, and Hobby Lobby is much better without you there.
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I wish I was in the land of cotton . . . old times there are not forgotten . . .
Look away, Look away Dixieland As one whom was raise in this North American Republic, I believe Lincoln was a scumbag sadly his assassination was all for not In other words To late to save States rights.
I’ve often wondered as to how ill- informed ill -educated these antifs socialist,PROGRESSIVES & OF course the BLM members are.
Clearly they never so much as read the southern states Newly defined constitution In 1861 Which in fact ended slavery.
Recent history Year 2017 Truly the Fascist racist , Bigots , ignorant Troglodyte excrement ingesting Monads are of course, The socialist ,the Progressives , the LIBERAL extremist ,The so called Antifs & THE BLM. These five groups along with the Southern poverty Law center, NAACP,the ACLU by all rights should an must be listed as Terrorist organizations. EQUAL fair Treatment, EQUAL rights ,free speech for all ???? NOT ACCORDING TO THE ABOVE LIST SCUMBAGS.
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Clearly they never so much as read the southern states Newly defined constitution In 1861 Which in fact ended slavery.
I have read the Confederate Constitution and this is a lie. Not only did it NOT abolish slavery, it made sure that any future territory that might be conquered by the Confederate States had to both institute and protect slavery. Your post is interesting, but, if you can’t get the most simple fact correct, no one can trust anything you post. Your post reads as if it was written by a mental patient on the common room computer. Get off the computer and take your meds, Peatro.
I hope they are all reincarnated as tampons!
Then they would pose even more of a threat to women potentially causing Toxic Shock Syndrome, of which the democratic party is and always has been toxic, but it was to both men and women.
Would not toilet paper be better ?
Well, both can be cotton based.
Aren’t they a member of UTS? (United Toilet Surfers)?
Look away!
Is that “racist”? ;>)
Some people just need to get a life and stop their stupidity.
They are brain fryed
Ask one of them just ONE time how much they know about the 27 MILLION SLAVES in the world today — and NONE of them are African American!!
When you stop their welfare, food stamps and other freebes, then and only then will they be forced to work or starve, and not have time for all this bull$hit
I think the author is correct. Some people seem to not have enough to worry about. Well, they’ll have plenty to worry about soon. And cotton decorations will be WAY down on the list. Hehehe.
I really can’t believe that these morons will go to any extent to get their welfare faces on this tiny screen. This is about enough of this childish shit in our country. If this nonsense bothers you so damned much, go to the deserts of the middle east and run your stupid mouth there. I believe then you may have a little more to run your mouth about just before they separate your empty head from your ass.
BRAVO !
We have really stupid people here in Texas to. I think they came here from California or some other planet. Something else to just get the liberals to cry about.
They are trying to turn Texas back into a blue state.
It’s a coming thing, but will take another, like, decade yet.
I sure as hell hope not.
Watch the crazies on college campuses. That is the future leadership of this country. When a Conservative speaks on a campus and they have to bar the doors and windows to keep the crazies out that isn’t a good omen.
After the RED Blood flows!!
It ain’t a gonna happen. More and more democrats are waking up and smelling the coffee and seeing how stupid they’ve been for so many years.
I hope you are right. How do you know Dems are waking up. I haven’t seen it so far, but hope continues to shine.
Texas tried that blue state stuff with LBJ and look where it got all of us. The Great Society hasn’t been so great.
Probably immigrated from “The People’s Republik of Kalifornia. Like most parasites they destroy their homes and move elsewhere to create more destruction.
Kinda like locusts, aren’t they?
Yes and cockroaches.
Don’t insult a cockroach that way. They are way smarter than a liberal.
You can bet they will vote the same in Texas as they did in California and any other state they move to, with the same results. Soon they will vote Texas into another California.
Then move and wreck the next state the move to. Liberals never seem to connect the dots between ‘free shiit” and fiscal destruction.
Yep they all come from Calif, After they came too Calif, from back East!! and Mexico! Screwed up Our state with all of Their Liberal Progressive Politics, And No Morales!!! I was Born & Raised in Northern Calif 5 hrs north of the SF, Bay Area. After nearly 60 years of living in a part of Calif, where most of the people were Conservative up until the last 15 years? When all of these worthless Pot Growing Liberals showed up!!! Thank You Gov, Brown? You Libtard
Come on to Texasπ€ π¨π±
Go back to California.
I am in Texas born and raised here and will not be leaving π¨π±
I misunderstood your comment. I thought you were recruiting people from California so Texas would become a blue state.
I live in Texas as well and have for most of my adult life.
If you want Texas to become a blue state, then you are sadly mistaken.
No problem!! My blood runs Red just like Texas!
We will fight to the bloody end to keep it A Red state! π«π€ π¨π±
My buddy and I were elk hunting in Colorado and briefly met these nice fellows from Calif. at lunch a day or two later,we ran into them again. Hello Calif. see anything today. With a smile on their faces, one drawls out ” that is Northern California ” buddy we are armed!
Hey Norm: Sounds like you and your buddy are good Folks! Hope you’re all still on the Hunt of those wild beasts? I hope too be out in the woods of the Pacific North West soon on the hunt for a Majestic Beast!! Elk are the Only Deer that get my Heart Going?!! Best of Luck:)
You were fortunate!Most see Orange or Camo over that way anymore & look down their noses or have some BS to spew about killing the animals!!Ya must of been on the west side?Cause over on that there other side!Well the Mexifornia DemoRats have now overtaken and infested
Yea the same People that Hate us hunters, Are Pro Abortion!!! And Have No Problem Killing Unborn Children!!!
Too bad northern California didn’t break off from southern California before the Brown senior began to mess things up. Some sane people were actually living in northern California.
Yep We use to be Sane? Then all of the Libtards showed up! Now were called Crazy Old Loggers & Gun Nuts And Racists? Because I Fly a American Flag!!! I can’t wait till the Revaluation Starts?!! Because The Libtards are not Prepared for the Fight! They Started?!? We will be Burning their Rainbow Flag!! Like they Burned Old Glory! Very Soon!!! Simper Fi
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I love the picture, and also hope that Northern California can be preserved from those who will ruin it. I love the northern part of California.
I also love Northern California. Southern part is a different world and not friendly at all.
I believe you’re correct they had to come from Cali or NY. I’m surprised Texans tolerate it, the ones I know wouldn’t.
We don’t yet have any deportation laws on the books for leftist/communists, but maybe it’s something we should put before the Texas Legislature.
Maybe it could be model legislation for the federal Congress as well. Problem is at that level where would we deport them to? Then, we could just march them out in the desert with no water and forget about them. I’m getting really sick of all the name-calling I experience from them. They have no points of discussion, so all they can do is be obscene.
No worry Venezuela will gladly except those loser ignorant slaves to SOCIALISM .
There’s a solution!! i forgot about that God forsaken place. If Venezuela is full, I guess we could send the rest to North Korea.
NY is as bad if not worse than California, But there are a few of us left here in NY, that are not the stupid liberals,,and we are too dang old, sick or can’t afford to get the heck out of NY, otherwise we would all be joining the rest of America. The majority of us are not anywhere near NYC, but upstate NY We wouldlove to get out of this AH state. You can see where the libatards live, and their commie Mayor, NYC and the state capitol with that idiot as Governor, just like his brother and dad, idiots.
Since Rhode Island is still a little state geographically speaking, why can’t up-state NY become an independent state like Rhode Island? They would probably have to bar the doors to keep the city folks out, but it would be worth it.
Pretty much NYC. Folks from upstate and Western NY seem fairly normal. Same with all RAT states with large Metropolitan areas. The parasites and loony-toons are centralized there where the entitlements are located.
I talked with a liberal woman the other day who thinks we should get rid of the Electoral College. If we are stupid enough to let that happen then L.A.,, N.Y., San Francisco, Seattle and Chicago will elect every president from now on. Time to start waking people up to the thought that there could be a “war” over getting rid of the E.C.
All the Libs and gays are moving to Austin. They are trying to make Texas just like Colorado and California. It will be over A whole lot of Texans blood. π¨π±
Dude you sound like an Old Confederate? that settled in Texas? Get Over You’re Bloody Self!! Yep Wackos in Waco?!?
Hey, you get over it, and keep your liberal and gay friends with you under the rock you crawled out from under!
Liberal I’m Not? Gay Friends? I don’t think so! And there are more Rocks in Texas! So Slither back under you’re Rock! Rattle Snake!
They are our friendsπ€ Here in Texas what does not staying you or by two will eat you.
You would not last 1 week here on your own! We live off the land and can survive if we have to with no electricity or oil or gas but I bet you can’t!!
I enjoy Eating Rattle Snakes? Yep Chicken Fried, Tan their skins, And make Hat Bands, That I sell too you Drug Store Cowboys in Austin!! as far as Survival? over 60 head of Livestock! A 5 acre Organic Garden! An Orchard! A Gravity feed Spring! 200 Acres of woods that Backs up to 200’000 Acres of wilderness! That have plenty of Deer & Game!! Oh and I Almost forgot the 6 Acre Pound with lots of Fish! Dang talking about Fishing? I got to go dig some Worms up for Evening Bite!! See You!!
Yea, yea and A partridge in a pear tree.
Big deal, you have to know what to do with it your self and not hire someone to take care of it for you if you really do own it.
So come see me, I live on US HWY 83 between San Angelo and Abilene!!
No Partridges! Just Quail, Doves, Pigeons & Grouse!!! And I’m sitting here enjoying some nice Trout for Supper that I caught this Evening!!! Planning on Falling some Dead & Dying Oak Trees and cutting them into fire wood in the morning!! After I turn out the Goats! All by Myself!!! Hire someone? These Lazy Bastards that have moved here in the last 10 to 15 Years? That are of Hard Working Age? Just want to Grow Pot! Just what I Need? Lazy Libtards won’t Work!!! They all on the Dole!!! Can’t even get anybody to clean a Barn Right? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9dd27a776b4edfc902b8dacd43e379298ef080b978b5d9ef1dc147d18ef9422d.jpg
You talk like you are not A Native Texan. You moved in here from some other state. Texans don’t say Falling A tree. That is what Yankees talk like.
We just cut then down!!
Oh well I hope you enjoy where ever you live, by the way nice Goat & Kids.
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Texas no! Native Northern Calif, As in My Ancestors were Native here in the Pacific North West? Before the Vikings Sailed in from the North?!? And were Shipped Wrecked by a Sever winter storm! The Vikings Assimilated into Our Tribe & Culture! That was before Columbus was even born!!!
So I can’t say I’m a Native of Texas! So I’m thinking your a Native of? That’s what I thought! Hope you are enjoying the land of my Ancestors? You Welcome!!
This is what happens when you give a moron a keyboard. Like giving a gun to a baby. They just don’t know what to do. Now I will shop Hobby Lobby even MORE!
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Nah. They would be complaining about the SAND.
But they wear cotton in the deserts! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a terrorist in polyester!
I don’t know…do the local domestic terrorists ANTIFA wear polyester?
Now there is an Idea I could contribute to!!! We could enlist, employ & train every man and woman wanting to be a pilot in the Military services!!Start with California and move east flying them all there
Go ol jim. I love the last sentence.
What is racist about cotton? I know plenty of white people who have picked cotton. Some of these people just have it so good that something like a cotton display can send them off their rocker. We live in a land of plenty and what people are not willing to work for, the government will give to them. Some of these people are going to experience Karma in their future and they will deserve it. We have enough to worry about in this country with two hurricanes, North Korea rattling their missiles at us, the high cost of healthcare and they are worried about a cotton display. Oh please – get a clue.
No they need to get A job!!!
They will be able to get jobs, raise their kids and marry the children’s mothers now that the scary statues are gone.
They just can’t stand to kill all of those little Polly Esters.
… and they won’t buy Naugahyde because the nauga might be an endangered species.
ROFLMAO!!! You just made my day!! Thanks!!
Don’t decorate with pancies too … you know what represents.
Another decoration, a lawn jockey which if people didn’t know, is not racist either. The jockey, was secret way, pointed to safe houses along the Underground Railroad.
Not so.
The lawn-jockeys were invented — postbellum — to honor the many high-money-winning black thoroughbred-racing jockeys
I am black, I don’t think it is racist.
You are correct. It’s like saying the Pyramids are “racist” let’s tear them down. Let the past stay in the past.
So, do you use cotton in your household? Have you ever used a Band-Aid with a cotton pad? Used a cotton towel?
My grandfather (paternal) was an Arkansas Share Cropper after they lost their farm during the Depression. My maternal grandfather lost HIS farm because he was a registered Republican. This was in Nebraska. NONE of my ancestors EVER owned slaves.
Sorry how you feel, but I am SICK and DAMN TIRED of people doing nothing but BITCHING about something that happened over 150 years ago.
It’s about damn time these people began living for TODAY!!!
There have been plenty of WHITE people who picked cotton and other crops, too, MY PARENTS among them!!
Enough is Enough!!! If that offends you, I apologize.
You definitely some issues. At least
your ancestors were allowed to have a farm mine were not. Were your ancestors beaten, raped and denied education all because of greed? The history should never be forgotten. It set the black community back generations. Things are better today but there is still a lot of catching up to do.
No, ma’am. I DON’T!! MY ANCESTORS in Ireland and Scotland WERE beaten, raped, denied their language and traditions, had their homes burned for missing one month’s rent, the main breadwinner whipped, had their livestock shot and burned, their crops burned, were starved, were imprisoned for NO reason other than the FACT that they were Irish and Scottish IN THE 1700 AND 1800’S. English noblemen raped young married women on their wedding nights so they could “breed the Scottish (and Irish)” out of them under the practice of “Prima Nocte.” This practice went on in Australia until 1972 against Aborigines (black). It also went on in Ireland and all of it happened DURING the period of time that Africans were being sold into slavery in America. African tribes sold members of other African tribes into slavery for centuries.
The same thing happened to my ancestors in Wales and Norway. in the 1700 and 1800’s.
When they came here, (Irish/Scottish) they were horribly discriminated against, even in the cities of New York and other big cities. Irish women were FORCED into prostitution, and if they didn’t make enough they were often beaten or murdered. Irish men worked for PENNIES and paid everything they had in rent.
So DON’T tell me that I have “issues” just because I happen to be white. I, myself, have been discriminated against by the African American people I was forced to work with because we were stationed together!!
You obviously know NOTHING about the abuse that was heaped upon the Chinese, who build this country’s railroads, but I don’t see THEM complaining or rioting every time the news cycle changes.
My parents struggled to put food on our table, my dad worked for $1 an hour to feed four kids, so DON’T tell me that I don’t know what it is like to struggle.
I am SICK and DAMN tired of the bullshyt going on in the name of “former slaves.”
You should think about how others have suffered and about the 27 MILLION people in this world who are still ENSLAVED.
If you are upset about a cotton display, YOU are the one who has ISSUES.
It’s a shame that the white man has done such cruel things to human beings. Some of them have a lack of moral compose. From all that you have written today it’s clear to me you do have issues? God bless you.
No, ma’am. I don’t “have issues.” I am just an angry senior citizen who is sick and tired of “Social Justice Warriors” and 20-something snowflakes bitching because life has been handed to them on a silver platter and now they have to actually earn a living.
So, instead of earning a living, they pick every possible issue they can think of to protest about, destroying the property of others at will.
I served my country in uniform and was disabled in the line of duty so these spoiled brats can spend their lives bitching about stupid stuff.
That’s the ONLY issue I have. Anyone who thinks a cotton display is racist is the one who has “issues.”
God Bless You, too.
yes we also had IRISHAND CHINESE SLAVES…….THEIR ancestors don’t live in the past, and blame all their failures on THEIR families history. over two hundred years GET A LIFE
and STOP with this B/S
Go latch on to someone else. I don’t want to read your crapp!
O Debra you poorly educated, ill informed person. Over 3 percent of slave owners were Blackmen. Together they had owned over 13,000 slaves . An yes they owned them in both the north as well the southern states . It is true Liberalism has in many cases REDACTED THE TRUTH out of US history books. In many cases schools are nolonger teaching actual history; but rather A twisted , perverted , revisionist crapola.
Bastard, I just blocked you.
Truth truly Hurts. No I WASNT born out of wedlock, yes both of my parents raised 9 children. 6 boy 3 girls an heLL, yes each of us had our chores each of us at very young ages ,5 years old to be exact. WOULD go out on the job sites with our father.
He who was a Master Stone mason . By the age of 7. I was said to be a Master Stone cutter. I would not have claimed that . However many of the older men I worked with. Want me cutting their stones for setting. Before the age of 6 years old I had had 2 Broken left hands. Which literly forced me to learn faster. A missed fast hard stroke with a 3lb lump, hammer striking a five year olds hand
Breaks Bone relatively easy. No crying permitted once hand healed back at it. N0 BITCHING NO WHINNING No FREAKING COMPLAINING. JUST DO THE JOB ONE WAS ASIGNED.
Isn’t there already ENOUGH stupidity in this country??
Do these LOONS actually believe that African American SLAVES actually BROUGHT cotton to this country???
Do they actually BELIEVE that COTTON was NEVER grown in this country before they got here??
Give me a freaking break.
Slaves have NOT picked cotton in this country for well over 150 YEARS!!!
GROW UP!!
My dad and my granny picked cotton. My granny raised seven kids on her own after her husband was killed. And yes, I’m WHITE. Get over yourself. Thank God your families made it through their trials and tribulations, so that you’re able to send a post that you’re feelings were hurt. Thank God you live in a country that allows you the freedoms you so lightly disregard.
Amen.
I never picked Cotton? But my mama did and her sister did! and their Parents Did? when then lived in Kentucky They also Mined Coal, Picked Green Beans for a Cannery!! When they moved to Calif, they were called Prune Pickers? Because the worked in the Orchards in Northern Calif, in the 1940s When they worked in the Redwood Mills, they called us Hillbillies? because they had come from Kentucky!! Yep now they call us Racists? Because Were White?
Let’s start with taking free loaders off welfare and put them all to work. Stop them from buying everything with welfare except food..Put them to work . Bloomberg sugar tax just for the taxpayers , not welfare people, they pay no taxes on food to start with.. that is how dirty Bloomberg is with his sneaky sugar tax.
Oh pulease. Far reaching is their bigotry of anything that could reflect something that seems racist. Sorry but this is very racist on their side.
Then I guess they don’t wear any clothes made from cotton either.
Slavery was a long time ago and almost every race on Earth has gone through it. But there little minds can’t move on and they want people to feel sorry for them as if they are the only people who has gone through it. ( Grow up and move forward.)
Is she going to boycott Home Depot or Lowe’s because they sell chains, rope and burlap sacks? Should we ban Stupid? Would that make a difference or would it just wipe out Congress?
Actually, both.
We can dream, can’t we?
That would eliminate all liberals and RAT voters. The vision brought a smile to my face.
Wiping out congress could require all the toilet paper ever made. That could solve the loonies problem with white toilet paper and the country’s problem with the D C leeches.
Curses, I can’t eat cotton candy anymore. Down with the fairs and circuses. Topple the tents. If you eat cotton candy you are a racist.
Excuse the rant, I just wanted to see what it was like to be an idiotic loon.
Lmao good one friend.
Damn he had a good sample rant going there!!!
Yes he did cracked me up friend.
LMAO ! You beat me to that one, but if you mentioned the cotton candy issue to them, they would do a group think, and agree, also setting of another round of legalized insanity by saying that the sugar in the cotton candy is racist as many slaves worked in cane fields ! They’ll stop at nothing until they’ve labeled everything we work with or use to be racist, A friend of mine told me some time ago that some of them were calling the national parks were racist because all the trees in them that had branches that reminded them of hangings. One couldn’t possibly dream this sheer foolishness up.
We may see a fight break out within the morons. If they go after cotton candy the LBGTQ’s may take offense. Cotton candy comes in many rainbow colors. A lot of loonies could be struck with a powder puff. What color powder do they use on theirs? I’m getting confused with all these colors and fabrics. Almost emptied my closet trying to find some “POLITICALLY CORRECT CLOTHING” to wear. I’ll bet they’ve tricked us. They’re investing in rayon and silk.
They’re closet Capitalist.
You’re probably right, Just ask John Kerry about how he obtained his fortune had it not been for Theresa Heinz, the heir to her father’s company he created and built the entire fortune that he did, only to pass it off to his daughter. And along comes John Kerry, and for years, they’ve escaped paying taxes on a multi-million dollar yacht by registering in a different state, only to save upon the taxes he would have to pay. Just another example of the liberal elitist. Taxes are only for those that aren’t as privileged as we are. I used to work for Kenneth Lay (think Enron), but not as an Enron employee, this came one year after the collapse of Enron. He took my home based business over in Oct. 2002, so I know all too well of how those people work.
Yeah, that sugar thing could be a real mine field since it’s white and all.
If someone is against just cotton , then they are against God and nature. There are few people who do not wear cotton clothes, sleep on cotton sheets, wear cotton socks, and probably have worn cotton bandages in the past. These people have no real problems and have too much money, time, and too comfortable to even think of something like this. If they had to work hard to provide shelter and food for themselves, this would be the last thought in their mind. Correct ?
WTF over??????????? My family NEVER owned a slave! In the United States some States via their State Constitution abolished slavery as far back as 1802, Ohio! President Lincoln “FREED” ALL slaves in 1863, 154 years ago! They think Whitey owes them something BULL F–KING SHIT!!!
To the best of my knowledge NONE, NADA, NIL of my ancestors including me ” NEVER, EVER OWNED A SLAVE”!!! Therefore I do NOT owe you lazy good for NOTHING cretins one damn penny!!
You don’t stay in school nor study so DO NOT expect handouts!! Now a days you sit on your collective ASSES, drink beer all day or do drugs all day, pimp out your mothers, sisters, girlfriends or sell drugs on the street corners. You have no idea who your father is because your mother got knocked up by any one of 5 or 10 guys she was banging!! You’re stuck in ghettos because you’re too freaking lazy to get educated to find a GOOD job. You form gangs and shoot, stab or otherwise kill each other off in these ghettos but it’s ALL my F–king fault!!
Then you form/ start BLM, you say it stands for Black Lives Matter!! BULL F–king SHEIT!! It stands for Bloodthirsty Leftist Maniacs!! Does the BLM crew go jump in the ghettos to stop the raping, killings???? HELL NO!!
You say NOT ONE F–KING thing about the ghetto murders of “BLACK ON BLACK” but if a Black gets killed by a white cop while in the commission of a crime you want to string him up!!! HYPOCRISY!!!! WTF OVER?????
I OWE YOU NOT ONE GOD DAMNED THING SO GET THE F–K OVER IT AND KISS MY ARSE!!!
One of the FIRST slave owners in America was in fact “BLACK”!!
https://www.bing.com/search?q=anthony+johnson+slave+owner&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSBR
Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 β d. 1670) was a black Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia after serving his term of indenture. He became one of the first property owners and slaveholders of African birth there. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years, and was granted land by the colony.[1]
He later became a successful tobacco farmer in Maryland. He attained great wealth after having been an indentured servant and has been referred to as β’the black patriarch’ of the first community of Negro property owners in America”.[1]
Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.[2]
He arrived in Virginia in 1621 aboard the James. The Virginia Muster (census) of 1624 lists his name as “Antonio not given,” recorded as “a Negro” in the “notes” column.[3] There is some dispute among historians as to whether this was the Antonio later known as Anthony Johnson, as the census lists several “Antonios.” This one is considered the most likely.[4]
Johnson was sold to a white planter named Bennet as an indentured servant to work on his Virginia tobacco farm. Servants typically worked under an indenture contract for four to seven years to pay off their passage, room, board, lodging and freedom dues. In the early colonial years, most Africans in the Thirteen Colonies were held under such contracts of indentured servitude. With the exception of those indentured for life, they were released after a contracted period with many of the indentured receiving land and equipment after their contracts expired or were bought out.[5] Most white laborers also came to the colony as indentured servants.
Antonio almost lost his life in the Indian massacre of 1622 when his master’s plantation was attacked. The Powhatan, who were the Native Americans dominant in the Tidewater of Virginia, were trying to repulse the colonists from their lands. They attacked the settlement where Johnson worked on Good Friday and killed 52 of the 57 men.
The following year (1623) “Mary, a Negro” arrived from England aboard the ship Margaret. She was brought to work on the same plantation as Antonio, where she was the only woman. Antonio and Mary married and lived together for more than forty years.[6]
Freedom[edit]
Sometime after 1635, Antonio and Mary gained their freedom from indenture. Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson.[6] Johnson first enters the legal record as a free man when he purchased a calf in 1647.
Johnson was granted a large plot of farmland after he paid off his indentured contract by his labor.[7] On 24 July 1651, he acquired 250 acres (100 ha) of land under the headright system by buying the contracts of five indentured servants, one of whom was his son Richard Johnson. The land was located on the Great Naswattock Creek which flowed into the Pungoteague River in Northampton County, Virginia.:[8]
In 1652 “an unfortunate fire” caused “great losses” for the family, and Johnson applied to the courts for tax relief. The court reduced the family’s taxes and on 28 February 1652, exempted his wife Mary and their two daughters from paying taxes at all “during their natural lives.” At that time taxes were levied on people not property. Under the 1645 Virginia taxation act, “all negro men and women and all other men from the age of 16 to 60 shall be judged tithable.”[8][9] It is unclear from the records why the Johnson women were exempted, but the change gave them the same social standing as white women, who were not taxed.[9] During the case, the justices noted that Anthony and Mary “have lived Inhabitants in Virginia (above thirty years)” and had been respected for their “hard labor and known service”.[6]
Casor suit[edit]
When Anthony Johnson was released from servitude, he was legally recognized as a “free Negro.” He developed a successful farm. In 1651 he owned 250 acres (100 ha), and the services of five indentured servants (four white and one black). In 1653, John Casor, a black indentured servant whose contract Johnson appeared to have bought in the early 1640s, approached Captain Goldsmith, claiming his indenture had expired seven years earlier and that he was being held illegally by Johnson. A neighbor, Robert Parker, intervened and persuaded Johnson to free Casor.
Handwritten court ruling.
March 8, 1655
Parker offered Casor work, and he signed a term of indenture to the planter. Johnson sued Parker in the Northampton Court in 1654 for the return of Casor. The court initially found in favor of Parker, but Johnson appealed. In 1655, the court reversed its ruling.[10] Finding that Anthony Johnson still “owned” John Casor, the court ordered that he be returned with the court dues paid by Robert Parker.[11]
This was the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life.[12][13][14][15][16]
Though Casor was the first person declared a slave in a civil case, there were both black and white indentured servants sentenced to lifetime servitude before him. Many historians describe indentured servant John Punch as the first documented slave in America, as he was sentenced to life in servitude as punishment for escaping in 1640.[17][18] The Punch case was significant because it established the disparity between his sentence as a negro and that of the two European indentured servants who escaped with him (one described as Dutch and one as a Scotchman). It is the first documented case in Virginia of an African sentenced to lifetime servitude. It is considered one of the first legal cases to make a racial distinction between black and white indentured servants.[19][20]
Significance of Casor lawsuit[edit]
The Casor lawsuit demonstrates the culture and mentality of planters in the mid-17th century. Individuals made assumptions about the society of Northampton County and their place in it. According to historians T.R. Breen and Stephen Innes, Casor believed he could form a stronger relationship with his patron Robert Parker than Anthony Johnson had formed over the years with his patrons. Casor considered the dispute to be a matter of patron-client relationship, and this wrongful assumption ultimately lost him the court and the decision. Johnson knew that the local justices shared his basic belief in the sanctity of property. The judge sided with Johnson, although in future legal issues, race played a larger role.[21]
The Casor lawsuit was an example of how difficult it was for Africans who were indentured servants to prevent being reduced to slavery. Most Africans could not read and had almost no knowledge of the English language. Planters found it easy to force them into slavery by refusing to acknowledge the completion of their indentured contracts.[1] This is what happened in Johnson v. Parker. Although two white planters confirmed that Casor had completed his indentured contract with Johnson, the court still ruled in Johnson’s favor.[22]
Later life[edit]
1666 Marke of Anthony Johnson
In 1657, Johnsonβs white neighbor, Edmund Scarborough, forged a letter in which Johnson acknowledged a debt. Johnson did not contest the case. Johnson was illiterate and could not have written the letter; nevertheless, the court awarded Scarborough 100 acres (40 ha) of Johnsonβs land to pay off his alleged “debt”.[7]
In this early period, free blacks enjoyed “relative equality” with the white community. About 20% of the free black Virginians owned their own homes. By 1665, however, racism was becoming more common. In 1662 the Virginia Colony passed a law that children in the colony were born with the status of their mother, according to the Roman principle of partus sequitur ventrem. This meant that the children of slave women were born into slavery, even if their fathers were free, English and white. This was a reversal of English common law, which held that the children of English subjects took the social status of their father. Africans were considered foreigners and thus were not English subjects.[23]
Anthony Johnson moved his family to Somerset County, Maryland, where he negotiated a lease on a 300-acre (120 ha) plot of land for ninety-nine years. He developed the property as a tobacco farm, which he named Tories Vineyards.[24] Mary survived her husband, and in her 1672 will she bequeathed a cow to each of her grandsons. Five years later, in 1677, Anthony and Maryβs grandson, John Jr., purchased a 44-acre farm which he named Angola. John Jr. later died without leaving an heir, however, and by 1730, the Johnson family had vanished from the historical records.[25]
Abraham Lincoln DID NOT free the slaves.
The so-called Emancipation Proclamation purported to free the slaves in the unreconquered portions of the Confederate States. Slaves in the reconquered portions, and slaves in those of the United States that still practiced slavery — Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia — were specifically left in slavery.
The slaves were freed 18 December 1865 upon final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment — by which time Dishonest Abe had been dead some eight months.
This is the new brain washed ninnies that come out of the Democrat/Communist school system.Americas future leaders ,hold on folks.
I love the Hobby Lobby stores, they’ve got some very nice unique stuff! And if you idiots in never land have a problem with cotton, stay out of AL., it’s everywhere here!! We just have a generation right now that needs to be put to sleep and start over, it sure would save a lot of trouble and lives before it’s over! This country is FED UP with these socialist wanting to change our history!!
I am truly speechless! Usually I can find something to say about the stupid comments these lunatics make but not now. These people have too much time on their hands. Maybe if they got up from their computers or put their I- phones down and got a job and contributed to this society instead of finding fault with it they would be much more fulfilled. By the way I’d like to order 100 red ones.
This little snowflake, Daniell Rider, lives in Killeen, Texas.
This is as stupid as the woman that tweeted that jailing looters is racist.
http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/throwing-looters-jail-racist-says-leftist-crackpot/
Amen!!
Sums it up pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qyhf-4-JrQ
Fantastic narrative. Very well done. Kudos to you. So impartial and so inoffensive and yet so very poignant and informative.
God Bless you in all you do and all your travels!
Cotton is an ancient crop, farmed, harvested, carded, spun and woven thousands of years ago.
The narrow-minded ignorance of this poor little victim illustrates a breakdown in American culture. Good grief, learn history, girl!
All Democratic left wing liberals (Male, Female and Hollywood) are required to turn in their silk and cotton underwear/undergarments and wear only woolen underwear! OMG wool comes from white sheep!
How do you determine which Democrat hollywood left wing liberals are male or female ?
Read their birth certificates!
LMAO!!!
If american business wants to move on to higher levels and truly be able to excel, they should be able to ask what an applicants political affiliation is. If it is democrat, socialist, liberal or progressive or communist (redundant), this should be an automatic red flag and make the applicant ineligible for any position that requires critical thinking skills or sharp or pointy objects.
Positions such as Walmart greeter, DNC manager or DNC strategist would work, but the left has proven that this is a sound and serious situation.
…some ask about tobacco usage.
If you admit to having been a smoker, a condition of your employment is that – you’ll be tested for nicotine usage – patches, gum, whatever – no, no, No !
You CAN be terminated (Abbott Laboratories) if testing positive !!!
It’s a craft store for crying out loud. Are all other stores going to be in trouble for selling cotton balls?
I say, let the war games begin. Those who find cotton offensive need to start wearing maintenance-free polyester! Remember the leisure suits?
And since we’re at war, it’s time for those in charge to tell these offended ones to take a hike. Stop apologizing, and stop playing into the idiocy.
Are you sure you didn’t mean the “Hunger Games” ? I’m sure she wouldn’t dare wear polyester either, not because it reminds her of slavery, but because it’s a byproduct of the oil industry, and liberals hate that industry. but as most liberals think (sorry, that was a typo) they don’t think, all of their thoughts are based out of emotions rather than fact based. as it’s a byproduct of the evil oil companies. Perhaps she needs skirts made out of palm fronds.
This comes from the generation that received trophies for showing up. Now they show up and get nothing and they freak out. This is what happens with boredom. These people have never suffered, never went without, never had to sacrifice, never had to do anything they didn’t want to do. And now the entire country is paying the price!
Isn’t it wonderful that the best you can do in your life is to be a moron. These people are mentally unbalanced. This is what you get when you scrape the bottom of the barrel.
I’m white & my three cousins from a small rural town were let out of school to help farmers pick cotton during cotton picking season. That was in the early sixties.
“A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves”? Wow, it’s amazing that someone was able to preserve that cotton for so long! I hope Ms. Rider wasn’t wearing any cotton when she wrote that–if so, the cotton she was wearing was a descendant of cotton picked by African-American slaves, and she should be ashamed. She should also change her last name; “Rider” is a reminder of slave owners who rode horses.
they all have time to protest and riot maybe they should all be out picking cotton
Modern liberalism is both a social disease AND a mental disorder. These buffoons are desperately grasping at straws. They’re fiendishly seeking attention. They’re to be viewed as political co-dependents and partisan hacks.
No, as “enemies of the State”.
These people really need something… A LIFE! These “s#it for brains” don’t have “issues”… they have a bloody subscription!
Highly educated liberals without enough sense to get out of the rain. They do not come any dumber than a liberal and they prove it every day,day in and day out.
All too often, such critters tend to be mentalists – dead from the neck down and really rather screw-loose from the neck up. Just a bunch of wrist-wringing, nervous Nellie, busy body control freaks.
I agree with ol jim – I am sick of all this shit also – and sick of the Hollywood elite – sick of the excuses of Hillary – sick of it all!!!!!!!
Should do everyone the favor of advertising free benefits and welcome mat open to Californicata! Let them calexit, then watch them economically collapse between illegals draining coffers. Then charge them for water delivery from the Midwest…
Right On.
Make them pay for :
– higher gas prices in summer months (refineries have to “switch production” to californikas’ gas standards – removes volume of gas production for the rest of us – prices go Up.
-and on (stupid. Vapid, “fuzzy-feel hood” insane legislation that had a toxic effect on all the other States), and on, and on.
“Their” phreakaziod” Federal District Courts – along w/New (socialist) York, and Chicago, and DC (district of corruption)
Maybe we should just make all cotton illegal and maybe include fried chicken and watermelons too. I think I’ll have my wife start going to Hobby Lobby instead of Michaels. I remember a few years ago there was a protest that no one should eat at Chic Fil A when the owner donated money to a family first organization. Everyone decided to completely stop going there for one Saturday so they could realize how much money they are going to lose. Problem was the lines were down the block to get in for a Chicken Sandwich. Actually felt sorry for the workers because they couldn’t catch a break. After we ate our Sandwiches we decided to support the protest and decided not to stop at Chick Fil A. We protested and didn’t go there the following day which was Sunday.
I knew Libs were losing all rationality – but picking on cotton is just inhumane! My statement makes about the same sense as that idiot woman condemning that display of cotton fabric – who I’m assuming is Black.
Did that “violent” piece of cotton jump off the wall and attack her or did she equate it to the Klu Klux Klan’s white apparel?
Whatever got caught in her misguided hateful heart, it wasn’t anything to make a fuss over but apparently just a bubble of gas squeezing her brain into confusion! Give her some GasX and let’s move on!
It’s funny how they forget that cotton is a textile converted to cloth for affordable and light-weight clothing. They forget they had a purpose and that the whole reason for Slavery wasn’t hate but the insatiable demands on the market even by foreign pressures TO MASS PRODUCE THIS “COMMODITY” and yes they also forget the profit margin. That the idea was to produce so it is understood they damn well better do everything humanly possible that their Slaves are happy and therefore cooperative. How else could they get the job done?. Lastly the Bible speaks of CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY not to exclude CLOTHE THE NAKED. Don’t they know that politics includes all of these issues before governance is selected. Agreed it is idealistic but the understandings of politics or “civic duty” are there. What politician would ever get elected if there wasn’t enough fabric in his district to put together common garments. Not only but didn’t the Slaves wear clothes? Weren’t the Slaves fed? Didn’t the Slaves at least receive primitive medical care? Weren’t they housed? Weren’t they buried? In short Slavery was NOT as inhumane as Blacks would have us perceive. They’re just embarrassed that their forbears never asked for compensation, or restitution at the time. No, evidently either their own idea or pressured by outlying forces that revenge, ruination and bankruptcy would be far sweeter than permanent jobs and a “buck” in their pockets.
Uh, yeah. Didn’t a guy named George Washington Carver invent the “cotton gin”?
I’d guess they’d consider him an “Uncle Tom” ! Sick puppies.
No. I think GW Carver was credited with the invention “peanut butter”. (Again, that’s CARVER not CARTER. So as not to confuse him with Jimmy Carter and the former President’s legacy and posterity.. attached to ‘peanut farming’ also.) I think you’re confusing him with Eli Whitney. The “White” Eli Whitney, that is…
Oops, my bad.
GW CARVER, was instrumental in agriculture and education.
He developed “derivatives” made from peanuts, sweet potatoes, an soy beans.
Again, it’s highly likely that he didn’t even do what is reported. The way history has been “tampered” with it’s highly likely that he is just a sort of “ghost (under) writer”. You can’t really believe anything you hear or even see in print. “We are the salt of the Earth..” Some people know that as “relative Truths”, others “the PLAY’S the thing..”, and of course our Army of contemporary “players” (predators) who posture and squawk like they make sense (“eyes on the prize” – usually your wallet or financial access).
Well, take him down anyway.
His statue “injures” the sensibilities of people with peanut allergies…BECAUSE the can’t have the delicious peanut butter !!!
“I feel your pain”. Yes I can see medical emergencies and public health issues looming all about. OUT NOW!!! PUBLIC HEALTH THREAT, right there.
I totally understand what you are saying. Unfortunately, most Blacks wouldn’t get it because it is much easier to be angry and violent, because of something that never occurred to them individually, than it would be to use their minds and truly understand the nature of the world. So I guess they prefer to be poor, drug infested, pregnant at 15 and walk around with a chip on their shoulders instead of trying to improve their lives…easier and less strain on their brains.
Glad you feel the same but personally as you suggest and being as I live in NYC (kind of the “capital” of all that “ferment”) I generally keep my opinions to myself.
Yes I’m familiar with NEW YORKERS. I’ve a sister in law living there. Opinions are strong in NYC but they have to be the “right” (not right minded) ones for discussions. You worded your reply well. You’ve had years to do that I guess. Still, your points are right on! Thank you for your blog.
Born and raised in NJ but in NYC for 30 + years now retired but do remember while working the understood “courtesy” expected in all social environments here in “da Citee”. That is, “politics and religion are tabooed”.. No I think you’re wrong about “strong opinions”. As a visitor maybe you didn’t realize that what I mentioned about “taboos” is strictly enforced. The problem here is you DON’T get opinions. By that I mean people don’t express their convictions or commitments. If you’re relating to personal experience New Yorkers demand flattery, coddling (what they call “tlc”) “tender loving care”. Of course all is “skin deep”, delusional and worthless ‘small talk’. (In some communities – Black specifically – this is typically known as “ego-stroking”…) We don’t get beyond that here and New York – contrary to advertisement – is NOT politically inclined at all. Underlying are job commitments and housing opportunities (material issues) NEVER “civic duty” which in my “jargon” is a text book definition of politics.
Oh yes! Politics and religion were certainly “taboo” that’s for sure. My sister-in-law is actually a Native Californian, but she always reminded me of a New Yorker by her attitude. It was funny when her job took her to NYC and she met her guy there and got married. Hmmmm…Fate? Here’s where it got tricky. She is Italian ex-Californian, he is Black NYer. However, her guy is absolutely the nicest man I’ve ever met. And she is in her element where she belongs. So everything is good! But, we certainly do NOT discuss politics, race nor religion with her at all. She has one hot temper and absolutely no consideration for anyone else’s opinions.
As a 17 year old, I got to tour many of New York’s tourist areas – The U.N. Building, The National Art Gallery, Empire State Bldg {when you could still go up to the very top}, a beautiful Renaissance Catholic Church, the Statue of Liberty, etc. and loved it! Many decades later, I came to visit my sister-in-law and saw two Broadway Shows, ate at some of your wonderful restaurants, and was amazed at the resilience of New Yorkers after some pretty bad storms hit.
All in all, New York is an exceptional City and has withstood some very traumatic events (9/11) and came out even stronger. No one can deny that. But you are right, never discuss politics, religion, etc. in NYC with a New Yorker if you value your life. That is survival in NYC! However, on a blog site on the web, you are freer to communicate your opinions. In fact, your opinions are valued and discussed usually on a mature level — but not all the time — ignore the immature ones. Welcome aboard Peter!
It was good to hear a “witness” of someone who came out of here with a happy attitude. Living here as everywhere psychological “ups and downs” are expected. My problem is I had a tendency of putting my expectations high and came to a big abyss. Simple answer: place no expectations on your environment. If there’s anything “deep” you should always know about “people” is they are “unpredictable” and will never fit into my “mold” good or bad. So (as we say in the “rooms” – if you’ve had any experience in substance abuse) “life on life’s terms” and “keep the focus on yourself”.. I find those wise maxims (?) to live by so I don’t “sweat it” anymore and “live and let live”. I do find that despite what they will say about “patience – the ultimate virtue”.. I find conversely that “patience” can be learned and developed. I used to think myself patient actually the opposite was true. I had “anger management problems” which prompted extreme frustration, exasperation, IMPATIENCE, and suicidal or homicidal IDEATIONS. Ultimately I had to stop including “others” including family members in my development of a balanced conscience. That’s the ‘key’ for me. I’ve abandoned all hope for the presupposition of INNOCENCE – there I commend Jesus Christ, and Adam and Eve before the Fall. Humanity can have honorable intentions but we are never completely innocent. That’s a “carry over” of our European “heritage” of Idealism and Perfectionism which are built in defeatist psychologies since we are never perfect only The Almighty so all else is blasphemy. So? I try being realistic at all times and look to progressive change rather than reckless change to gain a sense of personal achievement.
15 ?!?
You’re kidding, right ?
No I’m not. Rape is almost common in the Hood – whether the young Black girls are part of a gang’s neighborhood or part of a rival gang. Predation of Black on Black crimes in the Hood is also common. But the saddest thing is the very young unwed mothers (even younger than 15) trying to raise their child/children and many times there are different fathers. And the breakdown of the Family unit continues generation after generation.
The other issue affecting Blacks is the cocaine usage that flows through the hood infecting young and older pregnant mothers. Their newborns actually go through cocaine withdrawal at birth and scream for hours. I had a good friend whose Aunt (mid 20’s) was a coke addict and gave birth to a tiny son who screamed for days until they treated him for withdrawal. He still was super sensitive to stimuli but finally began to live a better life. The Grandmother took her cocained daughter to court to get custody of the little boy – and won. The aunt went to rehab to kick the cocaine sobshe could raise her son. Everything was good and she got custody back, only to O.D. about 6 months later. Grandmother got permanent custody and the little boy developed medical issues because if the cocaine his mother ingested while she carried him.
This happens more times in the Hood than most people are aware. The issues in the Hood will disappear when Black parents put their children FIRST before their own needs – especially drugs!
Exactly.
The age often IS much younger. One of my friend and co-workers’ daughters (ALMOST 12 y/o) became pregnant, by her 15 y/o brother. Mom was “crushed”.
Now, instead of 5 kids , she’d say she had 6 1/2
because of the obvious extra care needed by her youngest.
Peer pressure, peer attitudes toward sex probably contributed to this “situation”.
No, wait until she “attends” a protest that becomes a looting riot …..give her CS gas, AND a “wooden shampoo”!
These idiots will never be able to hold a relevant job or occupation as they will spend the days being offended about everything!
Shades of tokenism, “posing”, and posturing. All hail the couch potato kingdom.
So it is with the ” entitled”.
Bored, worthless, and wanting MORE of what honest, hardworking citizens HAVE….
“because”…..?
The tragic and “telling” thing about Blacks insensitivity to this PLANT is that it could have been their “saving grace”. For example, I came to find out that Black people in the hysterics of misconceptions regarding the Slavery phenomenon miss the whole point. # 1 They’re under the “spell” that the only reason people HAD Slaves is because they hate people (BLACK PEOPLE – hence their misconceptions regarding “racism”), # 2 There was an overpowering high demand for the MASS PRODUCTION of cotton – not as a raw material – but as a TEXTILE, # 3 By “yesteryears” standards these “sweat shops” sprang up because the need to produce the “product” (in this case cotton cloth for affordable, light-weight clothing) be it cotton, food, or otherwise labor was recruited by Evil necessity to fill the needs of the masses (themselves included), # 4 Again, “clothe the naked” and ALL the other CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY outlined in the Bible were understood (apparently not – yet – by Blacks) so as the Slave dynamic COULD have been conducted in a humane way, # 5 for this reason it is suspected that previously Slaves never asked for compensation, or restitution because they found their “pleasure” in revenge and bankruptcy or ruination of potential employers, # 6 It was the Slaves that ruined every chance of peaceful transition from forced labor to gainful employment because of their paranoia, suspicion, and irresponsive interaction with potential employers. # 7 What these people call “contempt for authority” is merely their incriminating pattern of rejecting ALL VOICES OF EXPERIENCE. This would have enabled them to NORMALIZE (not integrate or desgregate) their relationship with their former MENTORS to be promoted as employees, and COLLEAGUES where they would have been equipped with the “wear-with-all” to administer duties of experiential authority.
Ok, so NOW I will have my “sensibilities” injured by a George Washington Carver statue.
Time to “take it DOWN”!!!
Harriet Tubman, sista – you coming DOWN !
Yes of course. Harriet Tubman was involved in this “underground railroad”. If we think of it in it’s contemporary “spotlight” Ms Tubman was a “criminal mastermind”. So this “underground railroad” in REAL terms SHOULD have been more clearly known as “underWORLD railroad” as I’m sure most of the “fugitive slaves” (aka in The North called “contraband”) went on to contribute to organized crime (go-betweens? “middle-men” ? “couriers” ?) in the areas they “settled” in.
ALL TYPICAL LIBERAL BULL SH-T!
OMG, when will these people quit. Did it say on it, that it was cotton picked by a slave in 1612? Do you buy cotton balls from the store or are you afraid of them also?
“Clothe the naked”. (God’s command to Southern “racists”. LOL)
“they” will probably NOT “quit” – even to the point of trying to remove the “white” stripes of Old Glory (our American Flag).
Sick.
Time to “cull the herd”!
Isn’t the cotton supposed to represent snow?
I can’t stand these liberal lunatics. They live in an alternate reality. They truly lost their minds when President Trump won. They are pathetic!
Sick.
Well, there goes my Michael Jordan Haines. Anybody out there have some polyester clothes I can borrow or purchase?
I am a white male in my sixties and I picked cotton when I was a kid before they came out with the machinery to do it. I was proud to get the work but hated it! I remember that every person in those fields were poor whites so you Blacks that are claiming racism can go pound sand!!! There are no slaves or slave owners in America today so shut up and move on! Most of you wouldn’t do that work because you feel it’s beneath you, it’s not! There is no shame in doing what you need to do to survive and put food on the table for your family. Doing that is prideful!
It’s a crop that makes clothes people wear, unless you idiot people don’t wear cotton.People wake up the democrats are looney toons.Run people Run away from the Dems and loons.
Should I be offended when I drive by the cotton fields in Buckeye? GROW UP YOU MORONS!
Can we start shooting REALLY STUPID people? How about we get rid of white bread, white paper, cotton squabs, AND CLOUDS, can’t forget white clouds!! It takes work to out stupid stupid. Opps, forgot the white in the flag.
Just when you thought you heard everything! WHAT ? COTTON? Oh yeah, that’s right Liberals all wear “Polyester Pant Suits” !
If I were a liberal, I would shut my mouth: by doing so, others wouldn’t think, that I had lost my mind…Monuments,cotton,what next….
Uh, the WHITE Stripes of Our Flag ?
What do the Dem’s have but stupidity, it is their one and only way out of being angry about the freeing of the their slaves, that “they” had cause the Union to be broken and then defeated in that war! Then they spent a hundred years making up the infamous Jim Crow Laws which made all freed slaves as less than human. Then they all took their cotton sheets and made them into clown-suits and called it the KKK! What cause me to wonder is…………”How is all of this problem owned by the Republicans, the Party that actually gave those slaves their freedom?
I believe everyone who is opposed to cotton should take the pledge to get rid of all clothing containing any cotton and to refuse to purchase anything with cotton in it. They will be easy to recognize as they will be the nude ones or in the emergency room for the blisters that are caused by noncotton undies.I love Hobby Lobby and will continue shopping there forever.
Now you all out there protesting against Cotton,have cotton for
brains.I know for a fact ,that my family as well as others in the old south owned cotton farms and picked their own cotton..
I’m tired of your stupid antics of racism,and further more my
people worked on cotton farms also,to bring home money.
WE didn’t own any slaves either,never have.. so give up that
(po) black me routine.I feel no sympathy for any of you today
you all are just looking for a free ride.
Racist IDIOCY. Mass production of cotton cloth was necessary even prior to The Industrial Revolution because a necessary expedient. Unfortunately the urgency for this textile you could almost say as a expedient of domestic tranquility like food in the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries required the enlistment of workers (Slaves) for “peaceful purposes”. This was a “sign of the times” and a result of Utopistic philosophies and opportunities. As Democracy “set in” in the US along with our Revolution Southerners were FIRST to proclaim the potential hypocrisy of such a practice. Unfortunately, “outsiders” (Abolitionists, Radical Republicans, War Hawks, Moralistic “Literati”, and Intelligentsia) suggested immediate halt without considering #1 the continuity of production, # 2 the future of employment (esp. the Slaves and future employees), # 3 the universal diffusion of illiteracy as impacting job performance and satisfaction, # 4 Employer and employee dialogue or lack thereof because of absence of simple communication skills, # 5 the universality of inhumane working conditions and the punitive “norms” of employers EVERYWHERE. In short Lincoln would have had to tackle not only Southern Labor Practices but also in The North probably unconsciously realizing the international implications of such an undertaking. Instead of educating the antedote (aside from Emancipation) was “scorched Earth”, ruination, bankruptcy, and damnation since taken from a “moralistic” point of view and not the more Constitutional FORENSIC and civilized dynamic to avert War and promote a more humane “karma” for the Slave “upstarts” or new employees.
Dear God what if they were pussy willows!
That would play well in either San Francisco or Greenwich Village.
Is there such a thing as natural black or brown cotton?
He should have used prophylactics. They might learn not to have kids they do not want. What a great conversation piece!
She sure was!
These little b@$tards can suck on my “cotton balls”… and spit out Q-tips!
Does it EVER occur to these people that we are getting sick and tired of their being offended. It certainly doesn’t seem to sink in that many of us are offended by their constantly being offended. Time to settle down and do some thinking before opening their mouths for a change. Frankly, I am offended by their being offended, especially when they go beyond just FEELING offended.
Well, I’m simply offended by your being offended by their being offended!
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Good, that makes at least two of us who can play the “I am offended game”. (Huge smile).
Don’t forget to spay and neuter your liberals, democRATs and other low life forms.
We have a faction in America with a negative mentality. They are always seeking some excuse to
accuse everybody else. They tend to be the non-contributing ones of society. Everybody owes them a living. They descended from a continent not known for progress except for the locations where the British settled. They will complain about this post but reality is reality. It it’s raining the ground is wet. If the sun is brightly shining on the desert the sand is hot and dry. They curse what they perceive as darkness rather than turn on lights. Except for negative griping they are the non-contributing members of society.
demonRats.
Correct John last.
Former dysfunctional labor dispute run amok (The Civil War).
I love Hobby Lobby and I love the raw cotton decorations. I like to put raw cotton in vine balls so that humming birds can use in their nest. I never once thought of cotton as being racist. Oh, stupid, insensitive me. Must be my white privilege. I thought cotton was picked by machine these days. I’ve actually seen it done. My parents picked cotton when they were children, before machines. They were white, and I don’t think they are offended by raw cotton.
Well, I’ve decided that I’m through being ashamed of my lily-white hide, and my ancestors. We are as good as anyone else, and plenty of my relatives lost jobs when the textile mills closed across the south. Yes, plenty of folks have been treated poorly for being “lint-heads” from working in cotton mills (white and black). However, that’s not the cotton’s fault and it’s not my fault. Furthermore, who are they to say that my cotton-ball Christmas wreath is not decorative?
So, they don’t have to shop at Hobby Lobby and they can kiss my white cotton drawers.
My father said his grandfather used to say;Some people would holler if you hung em with a new rope. Or there is just no pleasing some people. Or stupid is as stupid does Forest Gump. Slavery exists now! Not just over 150 years ago in this Country. Those who wanted to return to Africa enslaved those blacks there.The Chinese were treated terrible that helped build the rail road and we all know about the American Indian.Our Country has tried to make a mends,some will never accept an apology. With these let their own words at times accuse,sorry but Forrest Gump quote said it best. Power corrupts,not color of skin.
maybe they should all be out picking cotton