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I picked cotton (for a VERY short time), also chopped cotton.
Both experiences encouraged me to find a better way to make a living! Lucky for you, you had a choice... Name someone in the last 150 years who has NOT had a choice.
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That's a colloquialism for me. Until now I'd never made the connection of the phrase to race. Seriously. Same here, but, to be fair, I had to google "colloquialism." 
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Campfire Ranger
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Heard that phrase growing up.
Used it all the time too.
Never associated it with race.........was just added for effect (without using the F word).
Heard a black guy use it against a white guy at lunch last week.
Discussion was some nonsense at work......everybody laughing.
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Paynes admission makes it a true reflection. “Cotton-picking mind?” Payne interjected. “Brother, let me tell you something, I got some relatives who picked cotton and I’m not going to sit back and let you attack me on TV like that.”“Attack you how? You’re out of your mind,” Bossie said.“This is ridiculous, this is what’s gone on in America,” he continued. “This is what we’re about.”
This is not racial as Payne says it is in fact a family business. Really funny.
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Campfire Ranger
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I picked cotton (for a VERY short time), also chopped cotton.
Both experiences encouraged me to find a better way to make a living! Lucky for you, you had a choice... Typical reply from someone who doesn't know their azz from a hole in the ground.
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If he was from Kentucky we would call him a racist fudgk? Just give him time, and he will. He's probably babysitting while his wife is out making the living.
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What's wrong with simply saying, "STFU, you stupid n i g g e r!"
I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.
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Well, for me, it's only hand picked cotton next to my lily white skin.
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
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Remember the uproar when someone, correctly and properly referred to someone as "[bleep]?"
The media was all torn up over a nonracist word that simply means cheap and does not have any etymological connection to n igger, whatsoever.
Last edited by Sitka deer; 06/25/18.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Kahuna
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And there you go! It gets bleeped here when it is completely correct and unrelated to call a cheap person ni ggardly.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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