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re: Robstown (TX) High School is catching national hell for their mascot’s name
Posted on 9/6/20 at 6:49 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Posted on 9/6/20 at 6:49 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:Because it's easy. Large plantations in the Ms Delta definitely had slaves. Later on, they had share croppers. I would bet outside of the delta, very few whites had slaves and did their own picking. My grandfather in Simpson Co., Ms., grew cotton and had 8 kids; 4 boys and 4 girls. They all picked cotton among many of the other chores. All 8 graduated college, but education was important to my grandparents.
My dad grew up dirt poor in Bradley County, AR and picked cotton by hand as a kid. Why is it automatically assumed by white liberals "cotton picker" has racial connotations?
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Posted on 9/6/20 at 6:50 pm to EKG
Hispanics overwhelmingly vote for a school mascot name but it’s racist because white liberals say so?
Seriously, I hope all white liberals DIAF
Seriously, I hope all white liberals DIAF
Posted on 9/6/20 at 6:50 pm to VoxDawg
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White people picked cotton, too. Why did the Liberals assume that only black people did that?
My grandfather was one of them. Grew up around Robstown. Not sure if the sports team goes back to the 1930's or not, but I believe the baseball team he played on were the "Cotton Pickers". Back then, it was mostly German and some Irish families in the area.
As usual, this is all because some nosy nobodies think it's horrible. Wait till they find out that they didn't even farm that country until long after the civil war, and there might not be more than a hand full of black folks in the district.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 6:59 pm to EKG
quote:
When the issue was brought up in 2017, several Robstown residents explained "cotton picker" represents [our] Hispanic culture and pride.
Why Hispanic? Why do some people insist on tying every cotton-pickin’ thing to race? Why not just say “we grow some of the finest cotton in the world, right here in Robstown, and we are damned proud of that? Cotton paid for that scoreboard. Cotton paid for those uniforms. Cotton pays to paint our schoolhouse.”
Twitter, and all the liberals behind it, can go choke on one.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:00 pm to EKG
I drove from Houston to Corpus last weekend and had no idea so much cotton was harvested in that area.
It’s 0% racist but all of the blue haired self hating white people dont really care about that.
It’s 0% racist but all of the blue haired self hating white people dont really care about that.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:01 pm to VoxDawg
Because they are stupid dumb asses
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:01 pm to EKG
Wait until they get ahold of Hereford HS in the Panhandle.
Mascot is Whitefaces, they doctor it by calling themselves the Hostile Herd.
Mascot is Whitefaces, they doctor it by calling themselves the Hostile Herd.
This post was edited on 9/6/20 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:04 pm to EKG
I guarantee my father picked more cotton than 99% of all living black people.
He was a cotton pickin’ sumbitch.
He was a cotton pickin’ sumbitch.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:08 pm to EKG
Let the hard working Hispanics get good and pissed off at the BLM movement and the SJW bullshite.
This only helps POTUS even more.
This only helps POTUS even more.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:15 pm to 18handicap
quote:
Mascot is Whitefaces
I don’t like this mascot because cows are a dumb, semi-domesticated, fully controlled animal that is 100% guaranteed to be slaughtered.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:31 pm to VoxDawg
YES!!!
My poor, ignorant arse white ancestors moved from Mississippi to Texas in the late 1800s to PICK COTTON - not too far from Robstown actually
(I call them ignorant bc my grandpa was the first who could read and write)
My poor, ignorant arse white ancestors moved from Mississippi to Texas in the late 1800s to PICK COTTON - not too far from Robstown actually
(I call them ignorant bc my grandpa was the first who could read and write)
Posted on 9/6/20 at 7:56 pm to EKG
That’s funny. I’ve been through Robstown for work several times. The HS is right on the highway. First time I saw the name I thought “WTF”
Hispanic people in South TX don’t view their past the same way as black people. Current generations are proud to say their families came here with nothing and made it.
Hispanic people in South TX don’t view their past the same way as black people. Current generations are proud to say their families came here with nothing and made it.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 8:07 pm to 18handicap
quote:
Wait until they get ahold of Hereford HS in the Panhandle.
Mascot is Whitefaces, they doctor it by calling themselves the Hostile Herd.
Update from Kansas. So far no heat on the Solomon Gorillas and the Wakefield Bombers. Of course we still have at least a dozen high schools who still use Indians as their mascot so the line is kind of long.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:06 pm to 18handicap
quote:
Wait until they get ahold of Hereford HS in the Panhandle.
Can they please get around to the South Garland Colonels?
That one was so bad my SO decided to go to a different school in Garland. Of course she chose the Lakeview Centennial Patriots.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:13 pm to EKG
There were very few blacks around Robstown Tx back when they took that name.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:16 pm to EKG
I have a client in Alice,TX and have been trough Robstown before and knew it was a matter of time before that water tower with “home of the cotton pickers” was gonna catch up to the SJW mob.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:21 pm to SoFla Tideroller
quote:
Why is it automatically assumed by white liberals "cotton picker" has racial connotations?
This ^
And a noose - I’m pretty sure people of all colors and walks of life were hung
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:24 pm to EKG
Ignorance on display here
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:41 pm to Lawyered
Went there for a high school baseball game and couldnt believe it was writtin across outfield fence.
Posted on 9/6/20 at 9:45 pm to Lawyered
quote:
Ignorance on display here
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