Tiffany Cross ROCKED at 9:52 am today, NAILED Mitch McConnell in most coherent brutal way

[lostnfound]

Referred to him as ‘This Mitch’
Paraphrasing: Who is he to say that I am not American? Not this man

From mentioning the 14 slaves owned by his great grandfathers to “he and his brutal-spirited ignorant ilk don’t want the real American history taught” to man-boy — I’m not sure what is my favorite part.

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[brooklynite]

1. What relevance does his great grandfather have?

[gratuitous]

3. Listen to the whole thing

Would Addison Mitchell McConnell III have been in a position to go to the University of Kentucky and then to law school if he didn't have the advantage of his family's generational wealth, which Cross points out was built on the bodies and labor of slaves? The descendants of those same slaves whom McConnell is denigrating as not Americans like him. Americans entitled by their citizenship to the rights and blessings of liberty guaranteed by the Constitution.

[brooklynite]

6. Joe Biden's relatives had slaves; he seems to have turned out all right.

[HUAJIAO]

12. True, but I believe Biden's attitude toward and relationship with Black folks

is a wee bit different than the 'Mitch's.'

[lostnfound]

29. Furniture in his mind. Joe Biden evolved, Mitch not so much.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. I would like to remind Tiffany of one thing regarding her descendants.

When she says they were “picking cotton”…

Cotton only gets picked for a couple of weeks at the end of the growing season. It has a fairly long growing season. Before planting, the soil must be tilled to prepare for seed planting. Then, the cotton is planted from seeds they saved from previous crops, or purchased. It must then be tended for months, to keep it weed and pest free. This requires many hours, every day for months, of back breaking work in a hot humid southern climate. Then the cotton is picked from its spiky husks and carried to market.

What did her descendants do when it wasn’t cotton season? They tended animals and grew and prepared food from kitchen gardens. They developed new ways of preparing and preserving the food they produced. They butchered and cured the animals for food for, in many cases, very large household (families, workers, and enslaved individuals lived together on the property). They designed and fabricated tools and equipment to make their jobs easier. They laundered and cleaned linens for these same large groups.

They were the literal backbone of the whole cotton growing/plantation industry. Her descendants managed huge farming operations while inventing new products and methods of getting their product to market. It amazes me to think of it.

That Mitch would be nothing, I mean nothing, without them!

[Jilly_in_VA]

20. And they "chopped cotton"

Hoed and weeded the rows. That's backbreaking labor and is STILL done by hand, or certainly was in the 1960s. How do I know this? I had some Black neighbors who had moved up north from Greenwood, MS. One of the women (she was then 19) told me that her first job was chopping cotton and when she got her first paycheck for a week's work, it was $25 and she thought they had paid her "too much". This for 8-10 hours a day, 6 days a week, in the brutal hot sun. Even in the 1960s, that's slave wages. She didn't know anything better.

[Cracklin Charlie]

25. I have chopped cotton.

Horrible job. Break your back. Big bugs. Snakes.

No, thanks.

[momta]

23. Sorry to nitpick, but...

they were her ancestors, not her descendants. Other than that, right on!

[Cracklin Charlie]

26. Sorry.

Hop Sing very busy today.

[yellowdogintexas]

37. depending on the area, there were other field crops

that might have taken up that time in other seasons. Rice in the deltas of Arkansas, Mississippi,Missouri and Louisiana, wheat,hemp and corn in Tennessee, KY, Arkansas, Carolinas and Texas, indigo in the Carolinas. Back then, these were all labor intensive during the planting and harvesting periods.
Nowadays, in the cotton areas of Tennessee and Arkansas there are wheat, corn and soybean fields

Tobacco, which thrives in North Carolina Virginia and Kentucky was also grown in Georgia and Tennessee,is extremely labor intensive year-round even today. The fields might not have been as large, but it is still hard work. Not to mention the ghastly humidity and heat. It is really a 13 month crop. Farmers start the plant beds for the upcoming crop just before the finished crop goes to market. Very little is mechanized. It may be more labor intensive than cotton, but most folks would not associate tobacco with plantation type farms.

[rsdsharp]

10. I didn't have "generational wealth." I graduated from a state college

and a private university law school.

[yellowdogintexas]

35. he definitely would have been able to do that, especially if he did not

live on campus.

Back in the 1960s when Mitch (and I) were in college, it was a whole lot less expensive to go to college. Even at Louisville, which at that time was not part of the KY university sytem, in-state tuition was $40 per hour - $720 for an 18 hour semester. (my private liberal arts college was $12 per hour so we though U of L was atrocious and when our rates were increased to $14...oh the horror.)
State schools such as UK were far less expensive. These days of course this is not the case!!!

Snarky aside: McTurtle is a rare breed: graduated from both U of L and UK. There is a saying in KY "Wildcat by birth, Cardinal by the Grace of God" .

That ancestral wealth on the other hand, would have allowed his family to live in a good section of town (perhaps in an old family residence), go to bed knowing there would be food and heat in the morning, drive good cars, dine out when and where they pleased, employ household help etc. (There is a LOT of old money in the Louisville and Lexington areas.) Of course, I do not know that they did these things but if they had ancestral wealth they could have done so.

I think I read somewhere that the family roots are in Alabama, which is probably where the wealth is rooted. While KY had its share of slaveholders, the proportion was not nearly what it would have been in Alabama. Half of the state
is mountainous, not good for much other than mining and moonshine and those folks were Dirt Poor White folks then and this is still the case. Only a few portions of the state went with the Confederacy; mostly agricultural areas along the Tennessee border in the Western part of the state.

I will never understand why those poor struggling people continue to vote Republican.

[Progressive Jones]

4. Feces never falls far from the anus. nt

[lostnfound]

28. Mitch is proud of his roots and thought it worth describing his great grandfather in an interview

Actually it was his great great grandfather who “owned” them. Personally I have a grandparents who were born in 1861 and I consider them to be very relevant to who I am.

In a Dec. 28, 2014, interview with The News Courier, a daily newspaper published in Athens that covers Limestone County, McConnell described his ancestry in detail.

“My great-grandfather was a circuit-riding Cumberland Presbyterian minister,” the senator told the paper. “We still have his original saddle in my wife’s and my archives in Louisville.”

If it’s relevant to Mitch that his great grandfather was a “ circuit-riding Cumberland Presbyterian minister” the rest of his family’s history is fair game.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. A most EXCELLENT smackdown .

I despise Moscow Mitch as much as Tiffany Cross does.

[iluvtennis]

9. ++++ agree. n/t

[monkeyman1]

24. he don't look like he is going to last much longer, purple & blue as he is !!!

[dchill]

38. Yeah. I've thought that for ten years.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. Tiffany gets all my recs today.

That was beautiful, but I wish she woulda gone on for 20 or 30 more minutes.

What would we do without our black citizens/patriots? Think of everything America would have lost over history without them. I can’t even imagine an America without Aretha Franklin, John Lewis, George Washington Carver, Barack Obama, Muhammad Ali…the list is endless. And true for American immigrants of every color.

Teach American history! Let every citizen vote! We will be a richer country for it.

[Tommymac]

8. "We will be a richer country for it" This is the issue - the QOP & 1% doesn't want WE to be richer

in any way - monetarily, culturally, spiritually and especially morally.

[Cracklin Charlie]

27. Eff them.

I’m sick of them guys.

[lostnfound]

30. Every decade that goes by my eyes are more open to this. I agree with what you said. Nt

[DENVERPOPS]

11. Awesome message

I have always wondered about a number of the Blacks, other minorities, LGBTQ, or many of the former middle class ever voting for a Republican.......And yet members of those groups continue to vote for the very politicians that are trying their best to destroy them, and their groups........How the Hell does that work.??????????

I especially love it when they show Trump at a podium, puking up his vile, and in the bleachers behind him are many Blacks. On the rare occasion they will pan the rest of the audience and there is not a single black person in the entire crowd. I wonder, did they offer some blacks a bunch of money to attend the speech and sit behind Trump??????? WTF, and the Mass Media will never reveal this cute trick of theirs, and please don't ask why: 80+% of all Media in the U.S. is owned by Uber Rich Republicans..............Ever since Newt declared his "war on America", in my opinion, even NPR has curtailed their reporting.........At best, often giving a "he said she said" commentary instead of pure factual reporting.

[lostnfound]

31. Yes. They absolutely are offered money.

There are some black republicans of course, but the fringe sitting behind trump at rallies? Paid to be there.

[llashram]

13. nailed it

just f****** nailed it...BAM!!! To the "mitch" My feelings exactly of the stink of AmeriKKKan virulent hypocrisy produces...

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. Anyone who uses "ilk" is fantastic in my book

That was a thing of beauty.

[RussellCattle]

17. "He and his brittle-spirited, ignorant ilk". Yes, truly beautiful.

[Karadeniz]

15. "79-year old anachronism" !!!!

[Jilly_in_VA]

21. BAM!

[11 Bravo]

18. A thing of beauty!

[Fullduplexxx]

19. Gop:Keep the ballot white...

[uponit7771]

22. K&R,

[niyad]

32. A thing of beauty!

[ShazzieB]

33. "Mitch, please."

Loved every minute of this, especially that priceless sign-off!

[crickets]

34. Superb. K&R

[oasis]

36. Kick and rec and a toast to Tiffany.

[SunSeeker]

39. K & R & Retweeted!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Ouch!!!

Gonna need some serious ointment for that burn.