Dear black people, I am a white woman. I have worked in the tobacco fields just like you. I have set it, topped it, chopped it out, cut it, picked up leaves, housed it and stripped it. Stripped it the old way a few times by tying it and putting it back on the stick and later simply stripped it and baled it. I have sweated in the hot fields and froze my butt off in the cold barns finishing it up. So call me White Privileged if you like.
I stripped tobacco for the first time when I was 13 yo with my grandmother and grandfather. I didn't realize I would be doing this periodically throughout my lifetime. But hey! It taught me what hard work was and that no one can get away without working hard at least once in your lifetime. Except of course, IF you are the ELITES. I wouldn't trade places with these rich people for anything. I was born a poor girl and I'll gladly die one.
Dear black people, I am a white woman. I have worked in the tobacco fields just like you. I have set it, topped it, chopped it out, cut it, picked up leaves, housed it and stripped it. Stripped it the old way a few times by tying it and putting it back on the stick and later simply stripped it and baled it. I have sweated in the hot fields and froze my butt off in the cold barns finishing it up. So call me White Privileged if you like.
NOt many black peiple left who picked cotton.
They'd be mighty old if they did. I heard it was very hard and hurtful work.
You tell 'em Mary, it's rich privilege...
I stripped tobacco for the first time when I was 13 yo with my grandmother and grandfather. I didn't realize I would be doing this periodically throughout my lifetime. But hey! It taught me what hard work was and that no one can get away without working hard at least once in your lifetime. Except of course, IF you are the ELITES. I wouldn't trade places with these rich people for anything. I was born a poor girl and I'll gladly die one.
Yeah, never been rich, never been broke, worked and lived on my own dollars.