Leadbelly - Pick A Bale Of Cotton

[passwordntlongenough]

I can't thank you enough for posting this. I miss these cartoons.

[ilovefrankandbeans]

KILL ALL WHITE HONKEYS!!!

[Auringossasiisain]

Love this shit so much

[buckbumble]

This some good, old fashioned, Walter-style racism!

Thumbs up!

[benedictdegwyn]

lolocaust.

[Conniecheewa]

Dude i see your point, love this song, all it is now is a song about a period in history. But having just read through the comments there is a serious amount of hate going on there from almost everyone. Can you not disable commenting, might stop youtube being meanies!

[exion101]

racist or not... this is an awesome song!

[Physicspilot]

Funny what human beings have done to each other in the past.

[john6283a]

Our history is just that

[OkaniJMCA]

I like black people. They are so good at singing and dancing. Other things too I'm sure.

[SwitchBlade247]

I bet your mothers and sisters and girlfriends like that big black dick, that's why you hate us so much. that's usually the case or you fear what you don't understand. I tell this much go play that shit in a black neighborhood and see what happen to your punk ass....

[averagewhiteguy3790]

@SwitchBlade247 such an intelligent comment. you should write that one to the newspaper.

[ndecker3295]

@SwitchBlade247 no we hate you cause you ppl think ur the best and cant take a joke

[ronezaduc]

@SwitchBlade247 I like you man you seem to know why they hatin'



[DankerTehLulz]

@SwitchBlade247 lolnigger

[monosyllabicgirl13]

¿con qué finalidad hicieron lo último? me da gracia pero no comprendo

[TheBaltimoreBeast]

LOL NIGGERS

[Weazelito]

@TheBaltimoreBeast You're a fucking loser too.

[pallas216]

Wait... wait. You don't intend to be racist, but you pick the most horribly offensive and stereotypic video to go with it?

[simplystarting]

Callate el pinche ocico! Come mierda y muérete!

[kickalion]

hahaha niggers look like monkeys hahahha

[Weazelito]

@kickalion You're a fucking loser.

[gabetreacy]

Damn thats some harsh spanish swearing in the end

[turtaleater]

I find the imagery disturbing, does it make me racist to still like the song?

[marshill]

WOW..the hate runs deep with ya'll eh. Wonder where that kinda hate comes from? Probably deep seeded shit. passed on from yer pappy who got it from his. Or maybe just too many black dicks up the old pooper. .scared white bread. do us a favor and go pick some cotton!

[kemetkush]

@TheBibleIsLame maybe you white-zionists should suck a big black-dick.

[jcg12723]

This video shows every stereotype of of African-Americans I have ever heard. The content is racist. You know it, I know it and if you don't think it is then I wonder about you.

[2jransom]

My grandpa was white and picked cotton all his youth in Bastrop county and caldwell county in Texas. About 60% of the other boys out there was white.

[weishauptogram]

Wait? History is a hate crime?

[MegaSpudsy]

good old days.

[themangodess]

If you call this racist, grow the fuck up. I don't normally tell people to grow up, but really if you are so inclined to call someone racist over this and overlook the reason he uploaded it, you are more ignorant than any real racist.

[aaune82]

How can you say this video is racist? First of all, learn what racism actually means. To be a racist means that you value your own race above all others, and within that it does NOT say that for example blacks are less than asians etc, but that whites are better than all (this is the typical example, anyway).

However, this video is a very accurate depiction of reality. It clearly shows you that niggers are lazy, love melons and have huge lips. You're a fool if you deny the truth in this.

[MistrzPictures]

Come on, Americans! If these people in the video were all white, would you even say anything? -.^ Get over it, people work in the fields on the whole world, wtf!

[666davidos]

Oh, lordy

Pick a bale of cotton

Oh, lordy

Pick a bale a day

Oh, lordy

Pick a bale of cotton

Oh, lordy

Pick a bale a day

[paigefive]

THIS SONG JUST MAKES ME WANT TO LOOK FOR KUNTA KINTE AND CHOP OF HIS MOTHERFUCKING TOES OFF AGAIN.PICK A BALE OF COTTON PICK A BALE OF NAPPYHEADS A....

[kemetkush]

@paigefive zionists bullshit....the real enemy of the black-man.

[paigefive]

@kemetkush OK KEMET THE FROG TELL ALL SAND NIGGERS TO GO SUCK ALLAH'S DICK.YOU FAGGOT MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE NIGGER MOTHERFUCKER.

[kemetkush]

@paigefive black-people are beginning to see the different between the real white-people and the zionists.....it is the zionists who are the enemy of all mankind....

[paigefive]

@kemetkush YES I I'M THE ENEMY. WOULD YOU PLEASE CUT MY MOTHERFUCKING HEAD OFF FOR ME I DONT NEED IT NO MORE...

[kemetkush]

@paigefive we all know who still controls the vast majority of wealth and power in this country, and it wasn't through "hard work" but rather malicious intent and oppression....rabbi mordechai.

[mzkabn]

they should've caged that old loony of a Disney. as a kid.

[kayteapee]

this isn't racists... watermelons are just delicious.

[ImSuchaGamer]

if black people where realy like this then maybe id have some respect for them. None of that lil wayne bullshit

[brianmusak]

odd that the old country accents are going ...all over Ireland the same 

[winnerbecken]

I find this video very hard to masturbate to.

[adrummer85]

I can't believe stuff like this was considered ok at some point.

[LegolessVideos]

lol @ the racist white american kids in the comments

[ELEMENT1111100]

Dirty slave apes should know their place. Fucking scum.

[sheffieldmvp]

@ELEMENT1111100 everytime Im in the poor part of town I feel like ive landed on the planet of the apes

[Astralrainbow]

@ELEMENT1111100 lol, fuck u

[ELEMENT1111100]

@Astralrainbow get mad nigger

[darrouken]

@ELEMENT1111100 Oh look! I'm being racist on the internet. That'll show 'em.

[lilspunky101]

woooooooooow



[lancelot1953]

Years ago, in HS we used to dance Jive or Swing to this song, regardless of color or creed! We were just too busy trying to keep up with each others and impress girls. The first time that I hear this song labelled as racist. We were young, & innocent. Our skin color was not an issue then, the bike we rode were. The only segregation we had was between boy & girl schools except for the dance classes. That very upbeat song brings lots of memories of the nice world I lived in through my kid's eyes

[brianpage100]

0:39 Whadda fuck?

[FlamingAbram]

lol

[Flutsyn]

haha work niggas

[IamDottieDandridge]

@PainMonkey LOL!

[IamDottieDandridge]

Im sorry but i hate this version of pick a bale of cotton I like the way it sounds when leadbelly sings it by himself it so much more exciting altho this version sounds like my southern black roots so I like that part about it.

[Jacquelyn104]

me and my black friends sang this on the bus and the white people started singing and the bus driver started singing it was fun.

[Mozoleum27]

Remember tht the artists that made this at thge time where indeed white. Times were different, and upfront with the racism as we can see with most cartoons back then such as Bugs bunny, and porky pig.

[73IMS]

I LEARNED OF THIS SONG FROM THE JERK IF NAVIN JOHNSON CAN GET DOWN WITH IT SO CAN I

[thebaldyoldfart]

i live in scotland.this music is a history of america.don't think of racism,just recognise your history.it is getting better(as all the musicians have shown )

too much love in music for some people remember when everyone smoked

cigs on telrvision?was that any worse than showing how it was in this

well done

[xoxVoodooBarbiexox]

oh lowd pick a bail of cotton XD

[cruzer132]

hah

[Thesoopness]

be more racist please...

[TheDamsl76]

i wondered what happened to this video! glad its back up this is classic political cartooning.

[PeterSt1954]

I'm no bleeding heart for other races, but it is a good thing to be reminded of just how dominant races deligitimise subject races to be comformable with exploiting and ignoring them - a process I know goes on in Africa and all parts of the world just as it does in the Southern States of America. The whole thing made me wince - as the author intended. But I think we are grown up enough to see this sort of thing and understand its historical and social significance. Its also great music.

[PainMonkey]

I always thought it was funny that the seductive sexy black gals in the old movie always have NOTICEABLY lighter skin.

[Jacquelyn104]

@PainMonkey yea what a cowinkydink

[PainMonkey]

@Jacquelyn104 Which your profile pic proves isn't ALWAYS the truth in real life. ;)

[SIMBAPOWER2]

Es muy gracioso!!!

[rm5157]

I think that this unedited video is important to show how relevant this man was to music.

[14mromegaman]

Damn farm equipment was slow back then, now they dont work at all LMAO!

[idrinkwaterxD]

OH LORDAAAYYYY PICKKK A BALE COTTON.

[MrChubby220]

why do the negros make everything about race?? you are the reason for racism!!get a job.

[DrZook]

And I am sure all you politically correct types who are all bent out of shape by an old cartoon have some sort of tedious, convoluted and specious logic to explain why this piece is "racist" against "black" people and "The Simpsons" isn't "racist" against "white" people?

[metalmagex]

can some tell me what is said at the end? im jc

[AbominableK]

Wanting for dubstep remix plzkthxbye

[LeotheOrangeCat]

This video doesn't make me think worse of African-Americans, blacks, colored or negros to use terms that are or were appropriate.

However, the comments make me embrassed for my own race. I thought we were beyond this crap.

[TheBrradsullivan]

@LeotheOrangeCat ....beyond this crap? we were just being observant, we didnt want them here and were fearful of what would happen if they stayed and guess what we were right, a century later and America is still plagued by a subculture of people who have a racial commitment to criminal and antisocial behaviour. its not the job of white america to liberate any group of people, the black youth of today are responsible for their own tomorrow.

[Fugod]

wtf was up with the end lol get a grip

[MZBACKWOODZBEAST]

Black white mexican asian creole etc., it really doesn't matter because in the time of trouble, plagues and famine nor heaven or hell sees color............PRAYING THAT GOD HAS MERCY ON ALL FOOLS!!!

[gmckennon]

Who did the animation?  Disney?

[RudaTaTuda]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! Wow

[Arcterion]

How 'bout we all shut up about politics, races and all that crap and just agree that cotton is fucking awesome?

[micka20085]

HAHAHAHA THE NIGGERS IN THIS ARE GAS , GOOD STEREOTYPE

[chanson22]

love the song, the video is soooo racist and terrible

[Frankydoesitalso]

@chanson22 aaah grow up... We aint in the sixties anymore...

[desantiscm]

2:25 made me lol

[mrdarkhalo666]

need a grape soda / or kool aid :] /// WTF? wotz w/all the spanish cussing at the end of th vid??!! My kidz were in th room!

[mrdarkhalo666]

need a grape soda / or kool aid :]

[intellectualretards]

first i was like "wow, this is very racist". and then they go and have them eat watermelon and i'm like "fuck, how more racist can you get? where's the chicken?"

[guitarguy2637]

@intellectualretards 2:06

[Frankydoesitalso]

@intellectualretards aaaah grow up... we aint in the sixties anymore... nowadays it's perfectly okay to show things like this..it is because we have shed all bad connontations about race and are finally able to laugh at other races for their characteristics.That is what the whole emancipation thing was all about isn;'t it... Political correct fools still need to moan and whine about this sort of imagery, but those who are truly free and thrown of the shackles can laugh about this without shame..

[bigbam2wwf]

what happened to these days!?

[hendev33]

Horrible "cartoon". So not cool.

[Frankydoesitalso]

@hendev33 haaaa grow the hell up...we aint in the sixties anymore...

[hendev33]

@Frankydoesitalso you grow the hell up. Even free people are not going to "laugh about this" if their parents or grandparents had to live through this crap. I don't care about you showing the video it helps me to see how evil people were to constantly degrade a people to feed their superiority complex AND I can show my kids this HIS-tory. They not only showed it, but they endorsed it, and legalized it back then. Yeah, I can watch it but I damn sure ain't laughin. So, thanks for posting!

[bikeridingpinko]

where is this video from? (i know the song)

[mgt5888]

This is so racist, not even cool.

[Frankydoesitalso]

@mgt5888 haaaa grow up..this aint the sixties anymore.... humanity has truly freed itsself of those political correct shackles and can now shamelesly make fun of any other ethnic group they wish. a negroe can make fun of asians and whites and a mexican can laugh his ass of on behalve of a negroe and a witeguy can make fun of a negroes big lips and what more... It is because we finally rooterd out all those acidpissing whiners and moaners with their political correct FASCISM... we are free now!!

[tHeWasTeDYouTh]

awesome, back in the day things were better

now a coon a President, end of civilization

[MrJamestrotter]

White racist propaganda .. which takes you all the Slavery .. when Slaery was law. The greatest genecide on earth wasn't committed against Jews .. i was committed against Black people.

[fairybaby123]

Humans are one race! It's not like there's a white race and black race.

[Katsuhisa777]

@fairybaby123 Genetically speaking, you are 100% correct! Race has a discrete genetic definition. Humans do not have enough variation to have any discrete races.

[turtaleater]

So your proud of some 1% or less genetic difference? Yah I am sure all the Out Houses and Incest is something to be proud of.

[1776Matthew]

@turtaleater "Even though the fruit fly has only about 13,000 genes, compared to the 70,000 to 100,000 genes found in humans were more similar to fruit flies than not. Seventy percent of the genes found in the flies are also present in humans."

One percent is no small matter.

[GerryLincoln]

Chevy Chase useed the line about jumping down , turning around. picking a bale of cotton in "Fletch...made me look for this...glad i found it.

[theortsch]

the only thing missing is some kfc

[croatiancop007]

This is a very accurate video.

[turtaleater]

@croatiancop007 racist bastard

[croatiancop007]

@turtaleater - Not racist. Just proud of my race. Shut the fuck up chimp.

[JosephMalicke]

It has elements from the early blues -- people on the street playing clarinets pianos and horns (that's a good thing folks), sexy fair girls that the dark like, a few fat mamas (many blues performers sing about how they love their fat women and they'll tell the world they do), plus lots of dancing and partying. I think it's a cool video and it works perfectly with the music. The animation is easily racist, but if a black person drew the cartoons, it wouldn't be suspicious. So whatever.

[rrrime]

Oh LAWDY this is too fuckin funny!

[froggymicwop]

this is like the most racist thing i've ever seen lol

[chrisbbbbchris]

great song love it, vidya is kinda throwed off tho

[Guitarvirtuoso666]

Well yeah, stereotypical depiction with the fat red lips, lazy black guys in the beginning.

It's quite racist yes, but then again that makes it historically very intersting!

[rrrime]

@Guitarvirtuoso666 Author of the song was black, is it still racist? That's a tough question! :)

[Guitarvirtuoso666]

@rrrime

lol I know but he didn't draw the cartoon

[Guitarvirtuoso666]

@rrrime

No really I'm a historian so it's a daily routine for me to analyse stuff like this.

In fact, this video wasn't racist back in the day, but it is considered racist now.

which is very interesting.

in the same period, European clergy printed books about the black people in the colonies. It contained stuff like "black men learn quickly, but at older age the mind becomes obsessed with sexual decadence"

it wasn't racist back then, today you would barely dare to say that about Paris Hilton

[darkmaster01]

@Guitarvirtuoso666 ???

[xzeronight]

W.T.F.

[dts3204]

Bet this was the cartoon that played in the south during the great black westerns in the 40's

[painter2k]

the morons calling this a "racist" song, expose their ignorance. "It is best to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth, and remove all doubt"!

[leostoltoy]

@painter2k I think they might be saying it's a racist *video*...

[jemmani22]

this isnt racist. the guy who wrote and sang the song is black

[dantiggie]

@jemmani22 But I'm guessing that the guys drawing the animations weren't.

[anabolicErik]

@dakotagerman1 lol ur a loser

[dakotagerman1]

@anabolicErik

I telleth the truth, whereas the politically correct pundits are for losers

[anabolicErik]

@dakotagerman1 first off, if your gonna use punctuation, you should use it correctly or not at all... Second, when you use punctuation incorrectly, it makes you look ignorant or uneducated. Lastly, Adam and Eve and ur other biblical stories are basically bed time story for adults who dont want to deal with harsh realities. Therefor, with the accumulation of ur lack of knowledge,education, and ur intolerable believe system, one can only come to the conclusion that your head is in ur ass...

[dakotagerman1]

@anabolicErik

I use punctuation to approximate how, in writing, I would communicate my words in speech (by voice inflection). The only inaccuracy in punctuation I noticed was that I forgot a period at the end of a sentence.

BTW The real "bedtime story" for adults is the "I Have a Dream" address by Martin Lucifer Coon.

[horlacsd]

OMG this is so racist! oh early 20th century america...

[KanoKazuma94]

Watch this on drugs I ensure you its fun.

[kstewintheart4u]

Why the cuss words in Spanish at the end of the animation?

[kstewintheart4u]

the animation is as cool as the song!!!

[Sentinel4truth]

Wow, where'd you get this great picaninny cartoon from? Great stuff!

[ceilingshorts]

It isn't racist if it's true.

[calebbyers91]

Lmao This racism is killing me inside haha

[MrNoirtoise]

lazy town....this video man lol

[dannyman0513]

I didn't know all black people wore red lipstick and had Snoopy noses. I don't see the racist tones in this at all. This is just high quality music

[idrinkwaterxD]

This is so bad but so funny !

LMFAO

[YusefDeeb69]

ahhh good ole' racism

[AllKindsaGirls]

they took it a bit far with the watermelon clip.

[ThePrincessindiana]

it is kind of racist to me thats mean to black people.

[valarizgoe]

@ThePrincessindiana whine, whine whine...? put it in damn perspective.

[sanneschep1]

ooooooooo-lordyyyyyy :)

[extremeeXrement1]

that was back when cartoons were racially insencitive

[keloloE]

@avalospride What the fuck no one looks like that you mentally redundant bitch.

[cubs2504]

Fukin racism!



[Grizzlism]

Silly monkeys.

[TheMegaEmpoleon]

fucking gorrilas they should get a life

[Glassphxie]

HAHAHA

[eojadiius]

what kind of singing is the called ? like whats the style called ?

[Arcterion]

@eojadiius American folk/blues.

[Malakayah]

Of the past would have thought the world was coming to a end. hahahah, Pick a bale of cotton, pick a bale a day...oh lawdy a black man is in the white house, oh lawdy he is runny these honkies crazy. hahahaha BLACKS WILL ENDURE AND IF YOU AINT NOTICE WE WILL WIN!! Whites are decreasing in numbers here in the US lol know what happen to the honkies in south africa lol...jump down a turn around a kill a honkie a day. I fuck a white girl a anyday....lol

[KingOfWhiteTrash1]

@Malakayah Obama sold the people out to bankers and elitists. Sadly, you appear willing to cut him infinite slack for his horrible leadership based solely on the color of his skin. Who's racist again?

[markeithmm89]

@KingOfWhiteTrash1 Obama is doing good. He never got this country in this hole nor created this crisis...To call a black person racist just for supporting Obama is racist.. A lot of whites misuse the word 'racist' way to much, stop abusing the word 'RACIST'.. You won't never understand the full meaning of the word racist. The most oppress race on this planet knows the meaning of the word racist. Why is fox news still up? Tea parties? Youtube racist comments? Racist rules? Wake up idiot

[Blucius13]

He saved the liquidity and solvency in the financial system-- something that keeps the world running. There were special interests involved, of course, but there that will always in something of that magnitude. Something of equal or even greater magnitude would be shotting, robbing and looting if the whole worlds economy crashed and you weren't even able to go to the store to buy food; forgot having money to get it, you wouldn't have any food there to buy.

[mecarrico]

@KingOfWhiteTrash1 Brilliant words, sir!

[guitarguy2637]

@KingOfWhiteTrash1 Thumbs up to this statement, couldn't have put it any better... or any worse... it's just how it is; Unfortunately those who fail to accept it wind up posting essays in comment form on this video in order to state their personal piece which has no bias to the facts at hand.

[freedmanjoey]

@KingOfWhiteTrash1 i dtk about his skin rather is political polices and i think it's time for him to go now that gas is $3.80 and don't get me started on the health bill, or the 4,500.00 Cash for clunkers! OBAMA MUST GET GONE!

[dakotagerman1]

@Malakayah

NIGGER!

[guitarguy2637]

@Malakayah So are you laughing to hide your ignorance or are you laughing to make yourself feel better? Either way, good luck with that.

[Malakayah]

Ha, ha, ha this is one funny as cartoon. As a black man I have to say that I love revisiting stuff like this just to remind myself how racist all white people are. They have it ingrained into their being. Lol this is how they think, this is how they breathe day and night they have the African American people in thier minds. I love this song also, this African American folk music, and I am proud of it. As Obama sits in the white house and makes us all proud. I wonder how many "honkies"...

[eojadiius]

@Malakayah not all white people, my mum is white

[aslutsky]

@Malakayah "I love revisiting stuff like this just to remind myself how racist all white people are. They have it ingrained into their being. Lol this is how they think, this is how they breathe day and night they have the African American people in thier minds"

you realize how hypocritical that statement is, right?

gotta love that satiric cartoon of them niggers: slow