While talking about Thunder star Russell Westbrook's unbelievable game on Wednesday night, FOX Sports Oklahoma play-by-play guy Brian Davis said “out of his cotton-picking mind.”...

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People were not happy. The Thunder issued this statement condemning the comments ...

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"We find the term used by Brian Davis on our broadcast last night to be highly inappropriate and offensive."

"We’ve discussed it with the announcer and let him know that. He assures us it was not meant in any sort of offensive or derogatory manner and he apologizes."

"Nonetheless, he’s been told the use of that term in any manner is unacceptable."

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BAMAneck•72 months

America , land of the free and home of the easily offended .

TNG8r•73 months

I feel sorry for the broadcaster

ElroyJetSon•73 months

What a joke

TigerPimpNationTrank•73 months

F'ING DEMOCRATS ARE MORONS

crewdepoo•73 months

It’s like the expression “you must be out of your cock sucking mind”. Doesn’t mean I’m calling you gay, just something ppl say

crewdepoo•73 months

So the expression “you must be out of your cotton pickin mind” isn’t referring to a slave who picks cotton? It’s just something white people said to each other out in the cotton field?

Drizzt•73 months

Actually it’s not because some white people did pick cotton. They actually picked cotton for a few hundred years in Europe before they ever came to the New World. It’s how they had clothes and shite.

crewdepoo•73 months

But the majority of the cotton picked was done by black ppl, slaves. Agree? And when most people in America think of someone picking cotton they think of slavery, agree?

weeble•73 months

crewdepoo, no I don't agree that people automatically think of slavery. There were a lot of folks in the south that picked cotton. My parents both picked cotton in the 50's and 60's in Mississippi and they were not slaves. My grandparents picked cotton on their farm and on the neighbors farms and they were not slaves. The idea that cotton or picking cotton is a slap at the slave culture might be true for some inbred morons, but most people don't think that way.

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imjustafatkid•73 months

What a ridiculous reaction.

eugene1928LSU•73 months

My gosh what sissy fied world live in. Its just an expression that i use quite often and will continue to use.

eugene1928LSU•73 months

My gosh what sissy fied world live in. Its just an expression that i use quite often and will continue to use.

GeologyGrad88•73 months

I am just waiting for the idiot known as LeBron to weigh in on this.

ByUselves•73 months

Screw all these PC idiots. Must not have anything better to do than monitor B'S like this.

Insideradvantage•73 months

I 'm glad I have't watched an NBA game in at least 20 years.

LSUnatick•73 months

last time I heard that was as a kid watching yosemite sam and bugs bunny cartoons

LSU1SLU•73 months

frick this country man. I bunch of beta fricks. So tired of pussies getting offended over everything

crewdepoo•73 months

Can someone use that phrase in a sentence? I’ve never heard this before. What goes on in a cotton picking mind?

BowDownToLSU•73 months

I'm 51 and that phrase was used constantly around my town which was mostly white. I never thought it was racist

socal77•73 months

I'm 51 also and heard this phrase from time to time growing up. I would never in a million years have guessed that it could be interpreted as racist.

crewdepoo•73 months

But where did it come from?

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bdnc•73 months

oh for christ sake, does everything frickin thing have to be racist ??????

PrimeTime Money•73 months

This is going to receive some backlash. Backlash... oops.

chinhoyang•73 months

I wish I had ultimate power so that every time someone like Mark Robinson calls something like this out, every statement that the person has made that could be "insensitive" would be posted on youtube for the world to see.

chinhoyang•73 months

I like how the video is cut off right after the comment to insure that no context is given to the comment.

socal77•73 months

I've got to be honest that I've heard that phrase all the time growing up an never ever thought of it as a racial comment. I grew up with many African American friends and they would have said something if it had bothered them. No one ever thought of it or paid attention to it. I never stopped to wonder where the term "cotton-pickin" came from. And if I had I never would have thought it was racial. We reading intothings that aren't even there.

24chevrolet48•73 months

Huh ???? Are you serious ... People are NUTS!!!! My Family have been Farming For Years, Generations. Cotton , Sugar Cane , etc .. And Guess What, they are White.. should I take offense?? So I guess asking someone to wash the dishes Correctly or feed the chickens is racially insensitive since black slaves were probably asked to do it as slaves ?? This is getting ridiculous..

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