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.