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Something Our Parents Would Say Keep Your Cotton Pickin Hands Off My · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: WHOA look at this one cotton picking hands? I can
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  Speaker 1: still hear my World War two veteran father sending out
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  Speaker 1: that warning to me keep your cotton picking hands off
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  Speaker 1: my tools. The phrase comes straight from the Southern history
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  Speaker 1: of cotton agriculture. It was during the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
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  Speaker 1: Cotton picking was brutal, backbreaking labor. So where does the
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  Speaker 1: phrase actually come from, Well, it comes from your hands.
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  Speaker 1: It was a sharecropper's way of clearly stating to keep
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  Speaker 1: your dirty, rough working class hands away from those things
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  Speaker 1: that have nothing to do with you. The problem has
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  Speaker 1: always come up, though, How can you say keep your
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  Speaker 1: cotton picking hands off this, that, and that and stay
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  Speaker 1: race free? Oh he went there. Yeah. It means that
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  Speaker 1: the term cotton picking hands has had an effect on
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  Speaker 1: every one of us in some way or another, starting
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  Speaker 1: first with normalizing racialized labor stereotypes. It didn't face any
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  Speaker 1: walls when it first approached the world of tellivision back
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen fifties and sixties because those using the
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  Speaker 1: words weren't affected by them. Yet today's studies show to
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  Speaker 1: say cotton picking hands is an instant flashback to deeper,
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  Speaker 1: darker times. Today, the phrase is racially insensitive. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people avoid it, knowing it could spark something into action.
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  Speaker 1: Language carries memories the story may fade, but the impact
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  Speaker 1: will always remain. There is so much talk right now
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  Speaker 1: to retire the phrase keep your cotton picking hands off this, that,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever. But the thing about it is, though, is
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  Speaker 1: that history will always repeat itself, So keep your cotton
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  Speaker 1: picking hands off it. Oh my god, whoa something our
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  Speaker 1: parents would say. My name is Erro.