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re: Anyone else’s great great grandparents pick cotton?
Posted on 6/5/22 at 11:45 pm to WhuckFistle
Posted on 6/5/22 at 11:45 pm to WhuckFistle
Hell, my father picked cotton in Richland Parish as a boy
He’s 73
He’s 73
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Posted on 6/5/22 at 11:45 pm to WhuckFistle
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich
Posted on 6/5/22 at 11:47 pm to WhuckFistle
I picked cotton every time I opened an Aspirin bottle. 
Posted on 6/5/22 at 11:48 pm to fr33manator
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I always laugh when I hear folk talk about picking cotton like it was some racial thing. The poor picked Cotton, that’s what they did. Weren’t no color to i
It was a racial thing for for blacks as before slavery was abolished they had zero choice in the matter, poor whites had a choice in the matter, not much of one, but they weren't force to work the fields.
Now ounce slavery was abolished blacks also became Sharecroppers as pretty much that's the only option they had as to making any kind of living.
This post was edited on 6/5/22 at 11:53 pm
Posted on 6/5/22 at 11:49 pm to WhuckFistle
Reparations!!!!!! You’re fixing to get paid!!! Wait, you’re white? frick you.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 1:02 am to WhuckFistle
Mine were sugar cane people
Posted on 6/6/22 at 1:34 am to WhuckFistle
My mother and father both picked cotton as children and they were born in 47 and 49 respectively. It didn't stop because slavery ended. You still needed people to harvest the product.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 1:38 am to LegendInMyMind
I always tell people the history is so messed up. During slavery they also had white folks working in the fields. Only difference was they got a wage. But it was hard on them because they had to buy everything they needed versus most slaves needs were met one way or the other.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 5:07 am to WhuckFistle
My dad has good story about picking cotton as a kid. When he was toddler his job was to sit and watch his baby sisters as his older siblings and parents went through the rows. One day his dad finally gives him his chance to hit the field. He gets his sack and starts blazing through this row of cotton. His dad comes up to him for what he thinks is praise for his excellent skills that has been released upon the field. His dad proceeds to whoop his butt because he was only picking the tips of the bud and left dang near half a row of unpicked cotton in his trail.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 5:27 am to Topisawtiger
My dad was born in 35 in Ville Platte. Both him and my mother picked cotton growing up.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 5:37 am to WhuckFistle
Hell, both my parents picked cotton in the 50 and 60s.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 5:54 am to WhuckFistle
Spoke to a 90 year old lady the other day that’s in better shape then half this board. She grew up in the country picking cotton. She told me that on her wedding day, she had to set out 1,500 tomato transplants by herself. I couldn’t get over that.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 5:56 am to td01241
My father was white too, but he picked cotton as a child. His parents immigrated from Germany and they did whatever necessary to survive when they got here.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 6:02 am to WhuckFistle
My Dad picked cotton. You don’t have to go back that far.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 6:52 am to WhuckFistle
My dad and his six siblings picked cotton on their 200 acre cotton farm near Crowville back in the 20s, 30s and 40s.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 7:07 am to WhuckFistle
My grandfather used to tell me how he picked cotton for 5 cents a pound when he was a kid.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 7:16 am to WhuckFistle
Hell, my dad picked cotton in the 1950s. Small farms around here couldn’t afford the big machinery so they picked their own cotton and took it to the gin in a wagon pulled by mules or maybe a small tractor. Oh, and my dad was and continues to be white to this day.
Posted on 6/6/22 at 7:54 am to WhuckFistle
My mother-in-law did. She just passed away at 90. Dad was a crop sharer (how many on here will Google 'crop sharer.)
Posted on 6/6/22 at 8:00 am to WhuckFistle
My friends and I hoed a lot of cotton when I was 14. Start at dawn, end at dusk, $1.25 an hour. I thought I was rich LOL.
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