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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-10 11:30 PM
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37. Unfortunate choice of words, but not racist.
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  -Newsweek's Julia Reed just said on AC360 that President Obama is "out of his cotton picking mind" Turborama  Jun-16-10 09:36 PM   #0 
  - All of my white, cotton pickin' relatives probably would say no.  Clio the Leo   Jun-16-10 09:39 PM   #1 
  - It is possible to be over the top  SheilaT   Jun-16-10 09:40 PM   #2 
  - That expression is so old it has  asjr   Jun-16-10 09:40 PM   #3 
  - but it is not necessary  Rosa Luxemburg   Jun-16-10 09:42 PM   #5 
  - More critics that show how ignorant and low class they can  Cha   Jun-16-10 09:41 PM   #4 
  - the media has gone down over the years  Rosa Luxemburg   Jun-16-10 09:42 PM   #6 
     - Oh yeah..I'm wondering if it has to hit  Cha   Jun-16-10 09:45 PM   #10 
        - if it were up to me  Rosa Luxemburg   Jun-16-10 09:52 PM   #17 
           - You would have more than a few  Cha   Jun-16-10 10:03 PM   #24 
              - When I think back to the 'changes in Hungary and other Baltic states  Rosa Luxemburg   Jun-16-10 10:24 PM   #29 
  - Freudian slip..... It's definitely an odd thing to say...  RollWithIt   Jun-16-10 09:44 PM   #7 
  - Probably not -- or at least not intentionally so.  The Velveteen Ocelot   Jun-16-10 09:44 PM   #8 
  - Thanks for the link  Turborama   Jun-16-10 09:53 PM   #19 
  - I saw that. She was like the female Carville. Nah-it's just an insult-calling him "crazy."  jenmito   Jun-16-10 09:44 PM   #9 
  - You know how they like to project their  Cha   Jun-16-10 10:04 PM   #25 
  - It was a standard expression in general usage for a LONG time. Particularly in cartoons. nt  Captain Hilts   Jun-16-10 09:46 PM   #11 
  - My dad used to say that quite a bit. He's white, and was a cotton  SeattleGirl   Jun-16-10 09:46 PM   #12 
  - Of course it's not a racial slur.  Schema Thing   Jun-16-10 09:46 PM   #13 
  - I haven't heard that since Dukes of Hazzard  Renew Deal   Jun-16-10 09:49 PM   #14 
  - Nope, not a slur.  JohnnyLib2   Jun-16-10 09:50 PM   #15 
  - My mother told me that countless times when I was growing up  Gman   Jun-16-10 09:52 PM   #16 
  - No big deal!  KansasVoter   Jun-16-10 09:53 PM   #18 
  - I only learned five or so years ago that enie minie minie moe had been  Pirate Smile   Jun-16-10 09:53 PM   #20 
  - Out-dated and it is strange that someone on CNN would say it.  tekisui   Jun-16-10 09:54 PM   #21 
  - It's a Southernism- not sure how African Americans would take it  depakid   Jun-16-10 09:56 PM   #22 
  - That's the demographic which would be able to give a definitive answer  Turborama   Jun-16-10 10:05 PM   #26 
  - Not so well. I thought race---but I'm hypersensitive.  vaberella   Jun-16-10 10:12 PM   #27 
  - I'm not aware of it being used  customerserviceguy   Jun-16-10 10:02 PM   #23 
  - If someone tells me an expression is offensive to them, I don' t argue.  donco6   Jun-16-10 10:14 PM   #28 
  - Newsweek is losing money  Rosa Luxemburg   Jun-16-10 10:25 PM   #30 
  - A white person saying that about a black person...please  BeyondGeography   Jun-16-10 10:28 PM   #31 
  - It's a southern-ish colloquialism. My mom used to say it all the time, and so do I.  kestrel91316   Jun-16-10 11:00 PM   #32 
  - Not racial at all, just a bit antiquated.  Mimosa   Jun-16-10 11:21 PM   #33 
  - Video and transcript added to the Political Videos Forum...  Turborama   Jun-16-10 11:25 PM   #34 
  - A fabulously unfortunate choice of words - LOL - but no slur. nt  AtomicKitten   Jun-16-10 11:29 PM   #35 
  - No, not at all. For starters, few people realize what words they're actually  Hosnon   Jun-16-10 11:30 PM   #36 
  - Unfortunate choice of words, but not racist.  Arkana   Jun-16-10 11:30 PM   #37 
  - I'm African American ~ let's just say it was a poor choice of words  goclark   Jun-16-10 11:32 PM   #38 
 

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