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Originally posted by jerp View PostSo the other night in OKC, Russell Westbrook was having a great night - in the zone - with every shot falling and making amazing passes. The Thunder’s TV play-by-play announcer exclaimed “Westbrook is out of his cotton-pickin’ mind tonight! He has been suspended for one game for the “offensive racial comment” because you know, slaves used to pick cotton. The announcer had to make a groveling public apology. Did it ever occur to you that saying “cotton-pickin’ could possibly be a slur? I’ve heard that for my entire life.
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Originally posted by sir shovelhands View PostHuh, I always thought of it as a way for old people to avoid dropping the F-bomb or g-****.Originally posted by rattler03 View PostNo sir, you are wrong it's clearly a racial slur
Linguist Gary Martin over at The Phrase Finder has found that "cotton-picking" is actually a pretty old term, dating back to the first European cotton plantations in the 1700s, but that it only really showed up as an adjective in the 1940s. And in the examples he found, it referred to Southerners in general, not just blacks.
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