Why I'm Going to Pick Cotton for 8 Hours Tomorrow..and yes its 2012… – Afroculinaria

Tomorrow on Wednesday, October 24, 2012, I am going to go to a Virginia plantation that's around 390 years old.  I will pick cotton for about 8 hours and hopefully it will add up to 250 pounds--an average day's work for a 35 year old Black man, like myself, on a Southern cotton plantation.  From…

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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption

Way down south in the land of cotton …

Is the oft-used Southern phrase 'Get your cotton pickin' hands off there!' an incredibly racist remark that has slipped under the radar, because nobody has really thought about it? Am I opening

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Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption: Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer, Cotton, Ronald, Torneo, Erin: 9780312599539: : Books

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