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In November 2024, shortly following the 2024 United States presidential election, numerous persons of color and or members of the LGBTQ community received racist and homophobic text messages. The messages appear to have been mass-generated by a computer program and contain slight textual variations, frequently addressing the recipient by their ...
Dozens of Black people across the country said they have received text messages telling them they had been “selected” to pick cotton “at the nearest plantation.”
The source of the text message threats remain unknown as many texts are coming from different phone numbers across the country, making them difficult to trace, though they include a common theme ...
“Greetings, You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 12PM SHARP with your belongings,” reads one text message received by a resident in Washington, D.C ...
Cotton candy, also known as candy floss (candyfloss) and fairy floss, is a spun sugar confection that resembles cotton. It is made by heating and liquefying sugar, and spinning it centrifugally through minute holes, causing it to rapidly cool and re-solidify into fine strands. [ 1 ]
They often speak of picking cotton or of being 'cotton pickers' in a manner that is much more proud that derogatory. To say that someone--black, white, red, or yellow as his skin may be--is a "cotton picker" can hardly be derogatory unless hard labor is something to be made fun of. 2.)
Put 3/4 pound loaf sugar in a small copper kettle; add sufficient cold water to cover half of the sugar and stir until it is melted; then place the kettle over a strong fire and boil the sugar to a crack (the 6th grade); add a few drops of vinegar, remove the kettle, dip it for a few minutes into cold water and let it cool off a little; if the sugar is spun when too hot the threads will be too ...
A high schooler is “so genuinely mortified and sorry” after facing backlash for the way she asked her date to a school dance – with a poster that read “If I was black, I’d be picking cotton.