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Lou Dobbs. Cotton What? Cotton Who?

Started by baratunde aka jack turner · 11 months ago

Cotton pickin, perchance?
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31 comments

  • Craig Hickman

    1 year ago

    Good catch.
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  • justice58

    1 year ago

    F-you, Lou Dobbs!
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  • damien

    1 year ago

    That's why we can't talk about race, cuz the white man get's so mad that we're "free" these days.
    They need to respect our feelings... that is when the conversation breaks down cuz they don't respect our point of view and the only way to get them to talk is to minimize the reality of our history so when we don't want to do that then we're cotton pickin niggers.

    Gotta Love America!
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Fry Lou Dobbs. Hug Jeremiah Wright.


    Hypocrites.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    lmao. he wanted to go there soooo bad. poor white man. he feels censored.


    the issues with race are not one of words but of thoughts.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Are you out of your cotton picking mind? I have heard the phrase before. The meaning is not in question, just it's origin. My son thought it was a racially sensitive phrase. I never thought of it that way, though I understand how it can be. It would be helpful to understand it's origin.


    Both whites and blacks picked cotton in the South. But I probably wouldn't say it to a black person. Here's some information from a previous discussion:



    COTTON-PICKING - as an adjective cotton-picking "is widespread as a term of disparagement. Damned, darned." From the "Dictionary of American Regional English," Volume 1 by Frederic G. Cassidy (1985, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England).



    : : Actually, I think it's more light-hearted/ teasing than disparaging. "Keep your cotton-picking hands off my sandwich."
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  • andy

    1 year ago

    dear jack and jill, lou dobbs and the rest of them...gretchen on fox and friends...hasselback on the view. they are so annoyed by this race stuff and feeling confused about the rules...is cotton picking a racist term?...it is entertaining watching their therapy sessions on reality t.v.
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  • nita

    1 year ago

    why did he stop himself? maybe there'd be no controversy if he had not stopped himself from saying whatever it was he was going to say -- because obviously, lou dobbs himself felt he'd gone too far.


    if it was innocent, why stop himself? from wherever he was going to go.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchannan, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Hannity, Fox News, and other white media are the reasons the Rev. Wrights' of this world get amens and don't preach to empty pews.


    Debra Mathis has a post at BlackAmericaWeb.com about this issue.
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  • cranky

    1 year ago

    Dobbs don't like Kindasleezy now?


    I've never liked her more...



    He's whining because he thinks the only thing difficult about talking about race is refraining from derogatory language. He'd be on it like Andrew Dice Clay given the opportunity. He should thank us for keeping his anti-social tendencies on a leash.



    If we were as progressive and inclusive as he says we are, he'd be out of a job... capitalizing on peoples' fears and ethnocentricity.



    I've picked cotton. Do you think Secretary Fancy Shoes has? or Lou Dobbs for that matter?
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  • Vaughn

    1 year ago

    Although the distinction is a bit subtle, Condi's comments talked about Americans dealing with race, and how race effects discussions about race and racism. Lou felt it necessary to disagree with Condi and make a point with general examples of how easily Americans can discuss race. He's missing the point. As one of the earlier comments stated, and as Condi stated, the issues of race aren't all about words and discussion, but about how people think about race.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    If Dobbs had followed through with his thought and said 'cotton pickin' there is no way, that JJP and others would not have jumped all over him.


    Whites are constantly having to rethink terms once considered acceptable, now are questionable, but not yet removed from the lexicon.



    Why not give him credit for stopping himself?
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  • IdeaSharer

    1 year ago

    How could the fact that slaves were referred to as 3/5ths of a person in the US constitution be described as anything other than a stain?


    I don't see any connection between what Rice was saying and whatever Dobbs was yammering about.
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  • DWS

    1 year ago

    "Rethinking terms" for the last 30 years vs. rethinking terms, behavior, body language, etc. for 400. Hmmm.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    If it's so EASY to talk about race-why couldn't he do it w/o stumbling??????????? FUNNY! It's probably AA's fault for being too sensitive though. Yeah, that's it. If Blacks weren't so sensitive he would not have had to stop his comment!!!
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Do you posters here consider most white people to be racist, before meeting them?
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Who said he was racist??????


    Although he does show a pattern of racial ignorance and insensitivity. For the most part, he appears to be a jerk!
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  • Big M

    1 year ago

    Anon 2:20...


    I know I don't consider most white people racist before meeting them.



    But I absolutely believe that white people open their mouths and say things and share view points that they are truly too ignorant to speak about.



    It's like me saying that a woman shouldn't be allowed to get offended or upset at certain things a man says or does. As a man, who am I to say what a woman should find offensive, degrading, and utterly insulting?



    I just think it's ridiculous that, instead of white people conceding the point that they truly cannot understand minorities, what it's like to be the single black or Hispanic in the room, or the fact that America has chopped off black people's feet in this marathon race we call life, they instead become indignant. They get frustrated and upset--"How can YOU people be angry! Life is good! You can have any job you want! This is the land of opportunity! It's the most diverse America we've ever seen! And I have black friends, too!"



    I just think it's insulting. It bothers me personally because some whites are spewing their ignorance--even when they aren't trying to be offensive at all. For example, I was listening to Air America. They had a white man as a host, and he was absolutely confounded and a little frustrated on why black people have to consider themselves black. Why not just be American, he would ask. He couldn't grasp why Barack Obama gets to be considered black, when he's half white. I'm sitting there listening and thinking, "Good God, is it that hard to educate yourself? Have you NEVER heard of the disgusting history of the One Drop Rule?" Things like this are issues CREATED by white people, and yet whites are ignorant of their own history, especially when it relates to the degradation of blacks in America.



    They're just upset that we don't forget that history while they continue their selective amnesia.
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  • abe

    1 year ago

    It's an interesting clip not necessarily because of Dobbs' insensitivity (no surprise there), but because you can watch -- in real-time -- the brain shutting down the mouth. There's a series of calculations going on upstairs and you can witness the moment the brain yells, "Abort!"
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Looks like his hatred of Latino's has been put on pause until after the election. But, I'll cut him some slack, he does do one thing, call out the Bushies and at times even a good blast to the tag teaming Clintion's which always makes my day.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Vaughn and Big M, you typed it so well all I can add is DIDDO.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Did anyone see tonights (3/31/08) show? He and three other old white men were bashing Obama for letting his daughters sit and listen to the "hate speech" of Reverend Wright. They all agreed Wright was going to be an "issue" for Obama this fall because he hasn't thrown Reverend Wright under the train.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    I don't know why CNN has this racist xenophobe on the air. One would think there would be a huge public boycott of CNN for this.


    You can bet if there were some far left commentator who said things equally shocking that the right wing would have their head.



    Look at the way they ran off Dan Rather.



    Next thing you know you'll see Hillary on Dobbs spouting the virtues of white supremacy.
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  • rikyrah

    1 year ago

    I was so proud of Roland Martin going ' Dr. Rice was on spot. She nailed it.', and then shut all of them up by pointing out, that, with regards to the history of this country, Black folk have only had FULL LEGAL CITIZENSHIP, for 40 years. He was like, um, no you will not be allowed to ignore Jim Crow. Shut them up but good.


    Anonymous 6:33, I did indeed see that, and it's up to folks like us to stand up and say that no longer will Black folk be held accountable for what other grown Black folk say.
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  • justice58

    1 year ago

    "Anonymous 6:33, I did indeed see that, and it's up to folks like us to stand up and say that no longer will Black folk be held accountable for what other grown Black folk say".
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    Props Rikyrah!
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  • Goutham

    1 year ago

    *There... I said it.*


    "Lou, we'll see you back here in one hour. Thanks very much." *Cut the turd's mic.*



    "Wait, what just happened?! No, wait darnit! Freakin' PC autpilot!Gosh-darn cotton pickin' social gospelers!!! Darn you, Blitzer!"
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  • MissLynette

    1 year ago

    this bloated blowfly fucker is just an all purpose racist ass with a bully pulpit on CNN.


    CNN

    CNN

    CNN



    write, call, email CNN. and he's the same jackass who was saying a week or so ago "i have never, not in 40 years, heard any racist talk, never."



    what a fucking liar. i hear it ALL THE TIME, and he's heard nothing in 40 years? cotton picking fuckhead.
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  • justice58

    1 year ago

    MissLynette,


    "bloated blowfly fucker"

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    ahahahahahaha! Yes he is!



    Again--F-You Lou Dobbs!
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    Actually, I think that most white people are kind hearted and fair minded like all humans no matter their skin color, its just a shame that those are the ones who won't speak up when the ugly head of bigotry pops up, if they did, the nonsense that race is everything in an election as presented by the tag teaming two bit Clinton's would have never made it this far, and, old men like Dobb's wouldn't have to catch themselves before they make a slur as they would know its unacceptable, even when talking about the ever so trifling, incompetent Connie Rice-Bush.
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  • TruthSeeker

    1 year ago

    I don't know what to make of his crusade against "illegal aliens"...it's sort of like Larry Craig's crusade against gays. Lou is one of those white men terrified of the darkening of America.
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  • Anonymous

    1 year ago

    The Reverend Wright "controversey" is nothing more than a "high tech lynching of an uppity black man."
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