Cotton Pickers will decide this Election
 

Here we go..time to pander to the African American community and scare us into thinking if we elect Bush we'll go back to picking cotton :rolleyes: .. it is so sickening!


CRAWFORD, Texas — President Bush's campaign intensified criticism of Sen. John Kerry's views of the war on terrorism Sunday and the Democratic challenger fought back forcefully as the two candidates prepared for the final debate on Wednesday.
At church services in Miami on Sunday, Kerry sought support from minority voters and equated his campaign with the civil rights movement. (Related stories: Bush hits West | Kerry in N.M.)

"We have an unfinished march in this nation," he said at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, stumping with Kerry, urged the congregation to go to the polls.

"The power is in your hands, hands that once picked cotton," he said.

Bush received 9% of African-Americans' votes in 2000; their support is key to Kerry's hopes of carrying Florida.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...ign-rndp_x.htm

I thought cotton was all harvested by machine these days.

Nah...anything Jesse Jackson can say...true or untrue...valid or invalid...he'll say to get people on his side..

Re: Cotton Pickers will decide this Election
 

WTH???


I try to ignore the crap you say but this is too much. That one little half of a statement Jackson said is not saying that Black Americans are going to go back to picking cotton if they vote for/elect Bush. This is rediculous. I am not too much of a Jesse Jackson fan but mischaracterizing his statement like that is unfair, childish and flat out ignorant on your part.

If you want to vote for Bush, then do so but you need to quit all this mess by starting these threads and criticizing other people for voting whatever ways they choose to.

Re: Cotton Pickers will decide this Election
 

It's Monday morning and maybe I'm still 1/2 asleep, but I don't see where Jackson says anyone will be picking cotton if we elect Bush. Can you help me out?

What I infer from his comment is that hands that did backbreaking work, that were disinfranchised and could not be a part of the policitical process has the power to elect the next president. Where is the scare tactic?

Re: Re: Cotton Pickers will decide this Election
 

I'm >here< with you on this one, man. I don't like JJ at all, really, and it's pretty obvious that that isn't what he said. You have to be downright paranoid to get that from his statement.

Please, please...wake me when this is over.

Re: Re: Cotton Pickers will decide this Election
 

Well if you consider it crap..then ignore it! Did I tell you who to vote for? DO I even care who you vote for? Nope. If you can't handle what I post then don't read it! Simple as that. ;)

PS I am not your child ..so don't tell me what to do...OK? THanks.

Aparantly you do! Girl go sit down somewhere and chill out bacuse you obviously have some personal issues that you need to ponder.


-and believe me, I am GLAD you are not my child. I would hate to have had such misguided offspring. If you were, you would certainly have much more sense than that which you display.

Later ;)

Haha Love_Spell_6 LIVES to piss off the black folks on GC.

I guess you are outta your "cotton pickin'" mind... :p

True: I bought a t-shirt that says "Satan is my Homeboy" this weekend.

Also true: I ran into a dude at a party that was wearing the "Jesus is my Homeboy" shirt, and I almost changed into mine to pick a fight.

ETA: I got this picture from the future. If you look really close, you can see me and Dionysus.

http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab9d.gif

LMAO

I didn't know a "satan" version existed. I ought to wear that to church one day, lol.

Jesse says
 

Rev. Jackson writes in the Atlanta Sunday Paper (sundaypaper.com):

1: ... strenuous efforts are being made to intimidate, impede, and obstruct the vote of ... African-Americans

2: ... the Republican Party ... built its majority by becoming a whites-only party across the south

3: In 2003 in Philadelphia, voters in African-American areas were systematically challenged by men carrying clipboards, driving a fleet of some 300 sedans with magnetic signs designed to look like law enforcement insignia.

If I was writing on the Op-Ed page:

1: The big lie still lives

2: Another big lie. Two top African-American GA politicians endorsed Reagan for President. The runner-up in this spring's primary for Senate was Herman Cain, an African-American who owns a bunch of Godfathers' Pizza places.

3: Another big lie. Does he have a picture of any such sedan?

I am somebody ... with a brain.

I like the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Would never vote for a religious offical for gov't office though, because church and state should be seperate, but its good to have him around to bring up points.

There was no scare tactic in that article I could find. Are you trying to say that black people never picked cotton? :confused:

If there are hands that once picked cotton voting, I'll bet the bodies they are attached to smell somewhat funky. (And I don't mean George Clinton funky.)

lol

ahhh...and and they feed into it every time ;) Must be sad that some people live in a little box where no one disagrees with their little opinions and way of life... and when someone does..they blow a gasket! ;)

You're the one in my business lol! Why are you even posting over here..you're not adding anything of substance to the conversation...shoo fly! :p


LOL! no i'm not trying to say black people never picked cotton...look at the picture Sensuret posted ;)

What I am saying is that you don't throw around the term "picking cotton" just to advance your agenda. (lets not even talk about what would happen if those racist Republicans did it:rolleyes: ) Jesse Jackson appeals to ignorant people who don't have a good grasp on the issues. A surface reading of the article won't see what Jackson is trying to do, but ask yourself this question...why even bring up picking cotton? Ask yourself why he'd throw that in there. It wasn't an off the cuff remark...Jesse doesn't roll like that. The implications are as subtle as the liberal bias in the media..but for the independent thinkers out there..I think you can see what Rev. baby daddy Jackson is trying to accomplish here.

Are you serious? When I see an ignorant mischaracterization or generalization made by ANYONE that I feel calls for attention, I will comment on it. That, obviously, is the reason you would start a thread on a public forum. (unless, of course, there is some reason you would post an article and not expect someone to read it and comment. In which case, I repeat, you have some personal issue to ponder)

I believe that commenting on the "substance" of the article that YOU pointed out is adding something of substance, but I guess your view is that if it isn't a comment that is in agreement with your opinion, it isn't adding anything of substance. Funny, that is what you accuse everyone else of doing!

Thought I had seen that rhetoric somewhere.

I'm done with this "conversation" :rolleyes: Have fun.

Can somebody tell me how to put somebody on ignore? :o

PEOPLE ARE SOOOO PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE!

Get everything out in the open. I WANNA SEE A FIGHT!

Yooooo out of control! :D

*falls over dead from laughing so hard at Senusret I's post*

Click her... er.. "their" profile. At the bottom of the profile screen, you'll see a link to put them on ignore.

Or when Yosemite Sam said it all those times in the Bugs Bunny cartoons. Who knew that Warner Bros. was trying to tell us all those years that we're the indentured servants of a little animated cowboy with a huge red moustache.

Fighting with e-personalities on messageboards is SOOOOO 1990s :D.

Thank ya darlin' ;).