re: Half-Moon plans to solve social inequality in New Orleans

My grandfather started out as a sharecropper and I myself as a very young kid pulled a cotton sack down some rows of his small cotton patch he came to own as my parents helped him catch up on his harvest as we visited at Thanksgiving. He never like mechanical pickers and a lot of cotton was still handpicked in the sixties.

I am not black.

BB King was proud of picking cotton

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"I picked a lotta cotton," King reflected years later. "I was good, too. I could pick 500 pounds a day. That was hard. I figured the guitar was easier."

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