I am from Tucson, AZ where cotton is grown in the place I live past the Saguaro National Monument in Marana. We have a different take out here. There is a black neighborhood called Rillito Downs, all of those kids go to the schools my kids go to and the schools I went to as a kid. They have a good life, they never picked cotton unless they got paid for it, and they always had income unlike me or any of my white friends even since they were in elementary school. All of the people I keep in touch with from Rillito Downs have great lifes and families and may have been treated badly by some kids growing up but nothing more than the white kids getting picked on. They don't agree with the mainstreams view on black people, and they think the black people doing this weird trigger crap about picking cotton are just looking for attention, like liberals. Of course the friends I keep in touch with have been considered "uncle toms" their whole lives by those same liberals, including the white version. They think its disgusting but have no voice in the matter.
Two things: we have cotton harvesters and they have been around for decades. Nobody picks cotton by hand. We had them when I was a kid and I am old.
Second, kids today know how to manipulate and get out of work at school and with other social situations and they do so ALL THE TIME. They play off getting teachers in trouble, getting other kids in trouble, etc. and laugh because they not only get away with it, but get a kick seeing the adults dance around to accommodate their whims. I read this and could see right through the kids’ BS. It’s not until we take back control of children, teach them respect, punish wrongs, etc, that things will get better.
To be fair, that could have been what was happening here. The only account in the article is from the mother's point of view, it could have easily been about day to day life on a cotton farm and she chose to add the bit about slavery in her description to make it fit her narrative.
I am from Tucson, AZ where cotton is grown in the place I live past the Saguaro National Monument in Marana. We have a different take out here. There is a black neighborhood called Rillito Downs, all of those kids go to the schools my kids go to and the schools I went to as a kid. They have a good life, they never picked cotton unless they got paid for it, and they always had income unlike me or any of my white friends even since they were in elementary school. All of the people I keep in touch with from Rillito Downs have great lifes and families and may have been treated badly by some kids growing up but nothing more than the white kids getting picked on. They don't agree with the mainstreams view on black people, and they think the black people doing this weird trigger crap about picking cotton are just looking for attention, like liberals. Of course the friends I keep in touch with have been considered "uncle toms" their whole lives by those same liberals, including the white version. They think its disgusting but have no voice in the matter.
Two things: we have cotton harvesters and they have been around for decades. Nobody picks cotton by hand. We had them when I was a kid and I am old. Second, kids today know how to manipulate and get out of work at school and with other social situations and they do so ALL THE TIME. They play off getting teachers in trouble, getting other kids in trouble, etc. and laugh because they not only get away with it, but get a kick seeing the adults dance around to accommodate their whims. I read this and could see right through the kids’ BS. It’s not until we take back control of children, teach them respect, punish wrongs, etc, that things will get better.
To be fair, that could have been what was happening here. The only account in the article is from the mother's point of view, it could have easily been about day to day life on a cotton farm and she chose to add the bit about slavery in her description to make it fit her narrative.
Of slavery is excluded from the direct quote. Somebody is shaping a narrative.