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

[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!