How To Pick Cotton

An interview with a hand laborer about his life and the proper way to pick cotton. From the documentary "King Cotton" by Rita Ogden.

"Quick Hits From The Archive." To watch the full piece at Media Burn, click the link below:

http://www.mediaburn.org/Video-Preview.128.0.html?&uid=5976

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• HowTo
• Pick
• Cotton
• King
• Picker
• gin

[Annihilator265]

For all you niggers out there, this is how its done

[scorpioxf]

This man is the salt of the earth. Did you see how scarred up his hands were?

[chanchiem]

You can tell that man is a good man :)

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[artman40]

Picking cotton with bare hands? Now that's badass!

[sioux345t]

What a awesome old man with a humbling life.

Fuck I wish we could be more like that rather than throwin each other under the bus

[qpwillie]

@kosmopolitisch

LOL! I guess that's what we were; the bottom man.

There was a lot of money made but not at the farmers level. Most of those farm owners were just as poor as we were. The days of the old antebellum cotton plantations were long gone.

[kosmopolitisch]

@qpwillie Thank you for your response. I can appreciate your first hand knowledge and experience. At the end of the day, whatever the cotton-picking arrangements were at the time, it was NOT the direct fault of the White cotton picker working beside the Black cotton picker. Cotton made a great deal of money for a few and it provided a steady but small of income for the hard working majority. By the way, the cotton picker's errors about pulled cotton does not surprise me. He's bottom man.

[qpwillie]

@kosmopolitisch

In the area where I was raised, several of the black families owned family farms. When the big rice farmers came buying up the land, they had simply refused to sell.