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re: “Westbrook is out of his cotton-picking mind”
Posted on 4/12/18 at 2:21 am to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 4/12/18 at 2:21 am to tiggerthetooth
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Yes, its completely harmless.
This is an old euphemism in the English language that despite face-value really has no racial connations.
Cotton-picking was usually used as a stand-in for "damn,"
I had a great uncle who used it. If you put your fingers in food mean't for everyone at the dinner table before everyone was to eat.
"Get your cotton-picking fingers out of that food," he'd say.
He was born in 1910 in Louisiana on a farm so he grew up with the saying.
Or "wait just a cotton-picking minute" - same connotation.
"Wait just a damn minute."
Linguist Gary Martin over at The Phrase Finder has found that "cotton-picking" is actually a pretty old term, dating back to the first European cotton plantations in the 1700s, but that it only really showed up as an adjective in the 1940s. And in the examples he found, it referred to Southerners in general, not just blacks.
It's an old saying for damn that really has no animosity.
Only a modern crowd with no sense of history would get in a twitter fit over this.
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Posted on 4/12/18 at 3:12 am to oVo
I know people overreact to this type of thing, but in my mind, Why even say something like that?... 
Posted on 4/12/18 at 4:40 am to GCTiger11
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but he's gotta be pretty tone-deaf to say that about a black dude
Or maybe he’s not racist at all? Doesn’t think about the dudes color and used a harmless old saying that most of us have heard a billion times?
Posted on 4/12/18 at 5:09 am to oVo
Didn't Gus Johnson use the "getting away from the cops speed" idiom to describe a CJ2K TD? But GJ's black so it can't be racist I guess.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 5:35 am to Nonetheless
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He will be fired unfortunately
He was just calling a spade, a spade..
But this is what happens when you let the inmates run the prison
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 5:37 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:03 am to oVo
I was on a HS baseball team with mostly white kids and my coach said cotton picking a lot such as “Hit the cotton picking baseball.”
I figured the phrase to be harmless.
I figured the phrase to be harmless.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:13 am to jangalang
quote:it is
I figured the phrase to be harmless.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:16 am to Pelican fan99
Reminds me of that old song from the early 90’s, Cotton-Picking Joe..
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Picking Joe
I'd been married a long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Picking Joe?
If it hadn't been for Cotton-Picking Joe
I'd been married a long time ago
Where did you come from, where did you go?
Where did you come from, Cotton-Picking Joe?
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:34 am to oVo
Saying that in 2018 should get you fired for being stupid. It shows a complete lack of awareness of the times you live in. “Oh it started in the 1940’s, so it’s harmless”...please.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:47 am to RyleD
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It shows a complete lack of awareness of the times you live in.
As far as I’m concerned, cotton or the act of picking it isn’t a symbol of slavery or racism, neither are tobacco or any of the other crops grown back in the day and exported out. This ridiculousness is only outdone by the article I read months ago about a black woman trying to sue Hobby Lobby for the store selling vases of cotton.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:48 am to tiggerthetooth
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Yes, its completely harmless. I think people just need to learn how its used and who uses it and in what context.
How the frick can you say it’s harmless when most of y’all are white? Of course it’s harmless to y’all. I’m not saying the announcer is rascist by any means, but he should have known better
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 6:50 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:49 am to jangalang
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far as I’m concerned, cotton or the act of picking it isn’t a symbol of slavery or racism
It is tho
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:51 am to wildtigercat93
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It is tho
It’s not any more racist than the lines of rope being sold at Lowe’s. Cotton is fricking cotton and that’s it.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:51 am to oVo
at these racist mofos in here. He literally used cotton picking to describe a black man. I get that it doesn’t affect Russ but man if y’all can’t see the problem then you all have work to do.
Half y’all frickers think the south is gonna rise again so I guess I can understand the mindset of this place. Y’all need to make ur way over to the poli board with this crap.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 6:56 am to oVo
Someone took the wrong turn at Albuquerque.
Posted on 4/12/18 at 7:12 am to chitiger91
Posted on 4/12/18 at 7:14 am to Fus0623
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How the frick can you say it’s harmless when most of y’all are white? Of course it’s harmless to y’all. I’m not saying the announcer is rascist by any means, but he should have known better
It's already been explained above. This phrase is never, ever said with malicious intent and it is said in place of damn
Posted on 4/12/18 at 7:18 am to oVo
So Elf is a racist movie now?
Posted on 4/12/18 at 7:20 am to Fus0623
quote:What in the frick does the phrase “cotton pickin’” have to do with being white or black?
How the frick can you say it’s harmless when most of y’all are white? Of course it’s harmless to y’all. I’m not saying the announcer is rascist by any means, but he should have known better
It’s just a phrase that older country people use in place of a swear word. People grow up saying it and don’t give it a second thought. It has never been a racist phrase ever.
This post was edited on 4/12/18 at 7:21 am
Posted on 4/12/18 at 7:20 am to GenesChin
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If I was his boss, I'd probably fire him but less about the PC part and more for failure to meet job standards
You are dumb.
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