Cotton-pickers have been shafted by having their hard work turned into a negative historical saying that those goes something like: blah, blah, blah... "no cotton-picking sense." I don't think people who use cotton-picking negatively have ever picked cotton. While I have never picked cotton, I have been on the receiving end of a "no cotton-picking sense" statement, which seriously attacked my self-esteem.
However, this morning, I awoke with all the images and knowledge I have ever received about cotton-picking - all of which comes from movies about American slavery, history lessons, and literary readings of slave-narratives, which helped me realize... cotton was difficult work. Cotton-pickers had to use innovative workplace techniques that helped them fulfill their quotas while protecting their minds, bodies, and souls as much as possible. Dag-nabit, cotton-picking took lots of sense! Does this mean the children who pick cotton have the most sense given that they were forced pick cotton an early age?
If more people had cotton-picking sense and the ability to combine it with the resources available today, we could create a humane world (no, we don't current have one). As long as we have men, women, and mostly children somewhere picking cotton and forced into picking-cotton-like work - we truly have no sense.
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However, this morning, I awoke with all the images and knowledge I have ever received about cotton-picking - all of which comes from movies about American slavery, history lessons, and literary readings of slave-narratives, which helped me realize... cotton was difficult work. Cotton-pickers had to use innovative workplace techniques that helped them fulfill their quotas while protecting their minds, bodies, and souls as much as possible. Dag-nabit, cotton-picking took lots of sense! Does this mean the children who pick cotton have the most sense given that they were forced pick cotton an early age?
If more people had cotton-picking sense and the ability to combine it with the resources available today, we could create a humane world (no, we don't current have one). As long as we have men, women, and mostly children somewhere picking cotton and forced into picking-cotton-like work - we truly have no sense.
An article on modern day cotton-picking Click Here