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The Karmanator
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I just don't get how this is racist. I mean I don't understand why someone thinks this is racist.

Both Blacks and Whites picked cotton. Is there some racial slur about picking cotton that I don't know about?

https://www.yahoo.com/style/he...-prom-175830866.html

From the article:

Promposal season is in full swing, and while we all love seeing the extravagant, dramatic, adorable ways kids are asking each other to prom these days, some proposals are simply in poor taste.

Today’s tasteless gesture comes courtesy of some students who allegedly attend Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, Fla., where a receptionist tells Yahoo Style that the principal is “aware of” the photo — made public through a tweet posted on Wednesday by Monarch High School alum Jon Aro, aka user @papichombo.

It shows an Instagram screenshot (from a now-defunct account) of three teenage girls, one black and two white, holding up a cardboard sign reading, “You may be picking cotton, but we’re picking you to go to prom with us.”

“It is two thousand and f***ing seventeen,” Aro wrote captioning the image. And while it is unknown when the photo was taken and who the sign is addressing, people had unsurprisingly strong reactions, with the post being retweeted more than 5,800 times and “liked” more than 8,000, and earning a huge collection of angered comments.
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Manufactured outrage.


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Because there is a whole (very large) group of people indoctrinated by Jesse Jackson and his type, then emboldened by the former asshat in the white house that look at everything they see as possibly racist. See my tag line.


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Everything is an outrage today, everyday is a new one to go ape shit on. You could say good morning, and someone would find it offensive, and racist.


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You could say good morning, and someone would find it offensive, and racist.

That's vampirephobic.


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most likely a ploy for social media attention by the girls....



 
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You gotta jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton.


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The whole "promposal" stupidity needs to stop




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Didn't you get the memo? Everything is racist today, and I do mean everything. Personally, I think Lenin's "useful idiots" quote best describes all these nitwits.

As an aside to this story, we had a bunch of college age kids over at the house recently and one of the black kids asked me what breed my hound was (he'd never seen anything that looked like him before). Without any hesitation, I told him Louie was a Treeing Walker 'Coonhound'. The look on his face was classic. Smile


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In the world of "social justice" (as per my recent annual college faculty indoctrination), all whites are racist, some white women, but all white men. Anyone who is not a white male is a victim of micro-aggression, ie some form of discrimination, even if invisible and unintended.

Also, all claims by "victims" of such prejudice are deemed to be valid, do not need to be proven.

But I have an appointment, must go, before I get even more annoyed.




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Because it mentions something that might be construed as work?
 
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Personally, I think Lenin's "useful idiots" quote best describes all these nitwits.

He was half right. They're not very useful.
 
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So the thinking now is that only blacks picked cotton? Ridiculous!! From the time I was nine years old I both picked cotton and chopped cotton. For a full days work I earned a bologna sandwich and a cold Dr Pepper for lunch. That's just the way it was. When there was work to be done everyone in the family did their part. In the part of Arkansas my family is from you didn't have to be black to be a cotton farmer or a share cropper. Now I'm 62 years old and I can tell you without doubt that the lessons I learned for performing unpaid labor in the cotton fields at 9 years old have served me better than many get from a collage education and if you want to point that out to anyone I certainly won't call you racist.



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WTF? Not a damn thing wrong with this. And most of the people who are bitching about this are probably black.Roll Eyes



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There are plenty of racist jokes about picking cotton. Too proud to take Tylenol because of the cotton, etc.

This was not something racist, the girl works on her grandmas GD cotton farm.

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According to the Local 10 News report, the girls on the left and right in the photo were directing their promposal to the middle girl, who is the heir to her grandmother’s Alabama cotton farm, is homeschooled, and was not originally planning to attend the prom.



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WTF? Not a damn thing wrong with this. And most of the people who are bitching about this are probably black.Roll Eyes


I'd bet it's more middle aged white woman and lesbians than black folks...
 
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But I have an appointment, must go,


...even more privilege there Scout"Master"????

....sorry, just trying to snap out of 5 minutes from hearing some interview about the subject....
 
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According to the Local 10 News report, the girls on the left and right in the photo were directing their promposal to the middle girl, who is the heir to her grandmother’s Alabama cotton farm, is homeschooled, and was not originally planning to attend the prom.


People don't want context and facts that diminish the potency of their outrage.




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Originally posted by Skins2881:


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According to the Local 10 News report, the girls on the left and right in the photo were directing their promposal to the middle girl, who is the heir to her grandmother’s Alabama cotton farm, is homeschooled, and was not originally planning to attend the prom.


People don't want context and facts that diminish the potency of their outrage.


But where is this outrage coming from?
 
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