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re: Mississippi cotton farmer in 1968
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:19 pm to blueboy
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:19 pm to blueboy
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Mine too. I guess YT really wanted us to see this.
I was at Randolph Air Force base last week for a ceremony, a couple of hundred miles away from my computer. A friend of mine and I were talking about Roth IRAs and ever since I've been back home I'm getting bombarded(on my computer,) with ads about Roth IRAs.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 12:24 pm
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Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:34 pm to Turnblad85
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I'm sure he could've done things different, but seemed like he was decent person and the people that worked for him weren't miserable.
the second he and camera left
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:37 pm to Dire Wolf
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he second he and camera left
colored boy!!!
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:45 pm to Sal Minio
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Interesting perspective
Yeah, especially the one where the guy said "my mom & dad worked hard all day & I dont want that for me and my kids"
That's where it started, with lazy clowns like him
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:48 pm to blueboy
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Mine too. I guess YT really wanted us to see this.
Same for me.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:50 pm to This GUN for HIRE
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"my mom & dad worked hard all day & I dont want that for me and my kids"
I liked how he was articulate and understandable with no ebonics or gangsta speak, but I think he was pointing out that as hard as his folks work they have nothing to show for it and that's what he didn't want for him and his kids
Posted on 10/7/25 at 12:51 pm to Dixie Normas
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They just like to leave out the fact that there were about twice as many white sharecroppers/tenant farmers as black ones in 1940's Mississippi.
They also seem to have this notion that cotton was picked 365 days of the year.
There's a plant season and a harvest season, usually about a month each. It was brutal work during those months but the other 10 months were usually spent sitting around and watching the plants grow.
Some of these emancipated slaves and farm hands were shocked to find out there wasn't any down time when they moved north to join the industrial revolution.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:00 pm to TigersHuskers
I wonder if blacks in that part of Mississippi are better off now than then.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:05 pm to 777Tiger
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been a loooong time since I read "Rising Tide," but iirc, in the book the slavery issue was brought up well before the Civil War, there was a feeling among the land owners/cotton barons, that slavery couldn't and shouldn't last, the dichotomy was that labor was sorely needed to sustain the cotton industry but it wasn't right and the laborers did deserve to make a lving in their own right, wasn't a main subject of the book because the book was more about the flood but I do recall that being mentioned
That’s about my recollection too. Great book but it’s been at least 20 years since I read it.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:15 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
Easy answer, it’s worse now.
30 yrs ago Frogmore plantation still had hoe hands.
30 yrs ago Frogmore plantation still had hoe hands.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:16 pm to biglego
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been a loooong time since I read "Rising Tide," but iirc, in the book the slavery issue was brought up well before the Civil War, there was a feeling among the land owners/cotton barons, that slavery couldn't and shouldn't last, the dichotomy was that labor was sorely needed to sustain the cotton industry but it wasn't right and the laborers did deserve to make a lving in their own right, wasn't a main subject of the book because the book was more about the flood but I do recall that being mentioned
That’s about my recollection too. Great book but it’s been at least 20 years since I read it.
it was a great book with a wealth of information. The irony for me is I lost the book during the 2016 flood
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:18 pm to TigersHuskers
We must have the same feed man. Just saw that a couple days ago.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:20 pm to Darth_Vader
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I always have th exact opposite experience when I’m up north. I never bring it up, but it’s quite common whomever I’m speaking with will say something like “I’ll bet you’re from Alabama or Mississippi.”
Why do you lie so much?
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:36 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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wonder if blacks in that part of Mississippi are better off now than then.
I'd say they were better off then.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:41 pm to TigersHuskers
Went from hard work to no work and a hand out.
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 1:44 pm to 777Tiger
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hard as his folks work they have nothing to show for it
Odds are that kid never left the delta.
This isn’t just a ms thing either. Younger generation farmers in LA either went off to school or got hooked on drugs. So now Hispanics are farming.
This post was edited on 10/7/25 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:08 pm to AUFANATL
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There's a plant season and a harvest season, usually about a month each
They hoe’d weeds, chopped cotton stalks, or tilled the rest of the time. And it took longer than a month each to plant and pick
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:10 pm to TigersHuskers
Little did Humphreys McGee, scion of a Mississippi plantation family, know that a random jam band would noodle off with his name decades later.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:23 pm to TigersHuskers
We are all slaves, one way or another. Just depends on what you bow down to.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 2:24 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Why do you lie so much?
This must be your new shtick. Claim everyone is lying but yourself.
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