Loudoun County teacher passes around cotton during history lesson

[horselightning]

Loudoun County teacher passes around cotton during history lesson

It happened last Thursday during a U.S. History lesson at Riverside High School.

www.wusa9.com

this is ridiculous. the teachers was black who did the lesson. caucasion people picked way more cotton then blacks ever did and still pick it today. if anyone should be offended its caucasions with all these racist lessons like crt and native american history that racistlly teach other racist to hate caucasion. they need to get over themselves.

 

[Thunk]

Most cloths are made of cotton...they were already touching cotton even before the teacher passed it around.

 

[Lisa558]

Loudoun has gone crazy woke. (They also have gone crazy antisemitic.) That’s the county where the woke high school is, with the transgender bathrooms and the sexual assault.

And you should see how the (Black) Chairman of the Board of Supervisors is. All she cares about is “black this” and “black that.”

 

[daveman]

 

[ReinyDays]

Cotton pickers are green ... sillies ...

https://www.deere.com/en/harvesting/cotton/cp770-cotton-picker/

 

[Polishprince]

I don't see what the problem is. It gave the students an appreciation for the vision and innovation of Whitney and other inventors who discovered how to make it an important cash crop back in the day.

 

[Arlette]

Loudoun County teacher passes around cotton during history lesson

It happened last Thursday during a U.S. History lesson at Riverside High School.

www.wusa9.com

this is ridiculous. the teachers was black who did the lesson. caucasion people picked way more cotton then blacks ever did and still pick it today. if anyone should be offended its caucasions with all these racist lessons like crt and native american history that racistlly teach other racist to hate caucasion. they need to get over themselves.

The only real ridiculous thing is your racism. In my opinion you're a sorry piece of shit xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Mod Edit-Delete ----White 6

 

[LeftofLeft]

Loudoun County teacher passes around cotton during history lesson

It happened last Thursday during a U.S. History lesson at Riverside High School.

www.wusa9.com

this is ridiculous. the teachers was black who did the lesson. caucasion people picked way more cotton then blacks ever did and still pick it today. if anyone should be offended its caucasions with all these racist lessons like crt and native american history that racistlly teach other racist to hate caucasion. they need to get over themselves.

This is the same county that protected a boy who raped a girl because he wore a tutu…..and then tried to throw the girl’s father in jail.

 

[JGalt]

Loudoun County teacher passes around cotton during history lesson

It happened last Thursday during a U.S. History lesson at Riverside High School.

www.wusa9.com

this is ridiculous. the teachers was black who did the lesson. caucasion people picked way more cotton then blacks ever did and still pick it today. if anyone should be offended its caucasions with all these racist lessons like crt and native american history that racistlly teach other racist to hate caucasion. they need to get over themselves.

Cotton was just like modern-day drug users supporting the cartels. If those Yankees hadn't had such a craving for cotton clothing, the South wouldn't have had all those Negroes out there in the fields picking it. They would have gotten other jobs instead: Doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc.

 

[horselightning]

This is the same county that protected a boy who raped a girl because he wore a tutu…..and then tried to throw the girl’s father in jail.

that has nothing to do with this.

 

[horselightning]

Cotton was just like modern-day drug users supporting the cartels. If those Yankees hadn't had such a craving for cotton clothing, the South wouldn't have had all those Negroes out there in the fields picking it. They would have gotten other jobs instead: Doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc.

way more caucasions picked cotton ever and still do. thy need to get over themselves.

 

[hondo 50]

Just the all too familiar outrage du jour. These rabble rousers really don't even care about these issues they protest. They are rabid dogs, looking and salivating. They seek something to be outraged about. They do it out of self-loathing.

 

[elektra]

The only real ridiculous thing is your racism. In my opinion you're a sorry piece of shit xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Mod Edit-Delete ----White 6

Take a deep breath, count to ten. There is no racism here

 

[Arlette]

Take a deep breath, count to ten. There is no racism here

**** you

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

What was it Abe Lincoln said?
Oh, I remember…
“If I knew it would be this much trouble, I’d have picked the cotton myself!”

 

[Foxfyre]

Loudoun County teacher passes around cotton during history lesson

It happened last Thursday during a U.S. History lesson at Riverside High School.

www.wusa9.com

this is ridiculous. the teachers was black who did the lesson. caucasion people picked way more cotton then blacks ever did and still pick it today. if anyone should be offended its caucasions with all these racist lessons like crt and native american history that racistlly teach other racist to hate caucasion. they need to get over themselves.

When I was a preschooler our property line butted up against a farmer's field that was planted in half cotton and half alfalfa every year. (The two crops were rotated every year.) The cotton was harvested by hand. I don't recall a black person or two among the field hands but most were white or Hispanic. And to humor me and a couple of other neighborhood kids, they would give us each a little cotton sack and we pulled cotton right along with the others of course much less effectively than the grown field hands. But when I filled that little sack I got paid a dime--a princely sum for a four and five year old in those days.

Whether the cotton was picked--the cotton is taken out of the bolls while still on the plant--or pulled--the entire boll containing the cotton is pulled off the plant, it is back breaking work for the field workers and was murder on their hands. Not so bad for me as I wasn't expected to produce much and could take my time..

A piece of raw cotton is probably not too effective as a teaching tool. Cotton inside the hard bolls with their sharp edges and points would have been more effective to illustrate how difficult the job was. But getting shorts in a wad over using cotton to illustrate what slave life was like makes no sense to me. Insensitive? Hardly. Those who were unkind to their black classmates should have been corrected yes.

 

[elektra]

**** you

Oh sorry, you are the bigot here expressing racism

 

[Arlette]

Oh sorry

I forgive you

 

[elektra]

I forgive you

No you don't, you are a filthy liar

 

[Picaro]

Poor whites picked a lot of cotton. Willie Nelson picked cotton as a youth, for instance. It was common in the 1930's in east Texas, until the oil boom brought high wages and long term employment.

History – East Texas Oil Museum

easttexasoilmuseum.kilgore.edu