Black farmer fights stigma around cotton

For many in the Black community, cotton calls back to centuries of enslavement, but ABC's senior national correspondent Steve Osunsami speaks to one Black farmer who’s trying to change that stigma.
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[@pb1305]

Dude took pain, and turned it into power. Good for him.

[@friedrice2912]

Cotton didn't do anything but grow... The greedy people are where the evil came from.

[@michelej9496]

The inhumane treatment of the ancestors is reprehensible, greed is a deadly sin.

[@thepassionfruitdiariessuzi6978]

Bless him. It’s a beautiful plant and the properties of this plant are extraordinary

[@ZayedRayhan]

“it was the freest i had ever felt as a black man,” that’s wonderful. there’s a long way to go but people like him + the owner are doing great things for their community!

[@brookebrown1255]

I think the major difference is he gets paid for producing and picking.

[@yerxa420ca]

so did slaves lol

[@nullnull-b1s]

Well, the black farm owners with slaves also got paid. So did the Native American and jewish slave owners.

[@douglasburch2320]

Great perspective!! I wish you nothing but success!!

[@ArtFlorida-w7f]

Crazy cause we cant live without.

[@kimwatchman644]

Heck yeah, I'll support that cotton guy! I wear nothing but cotton, since I'm a welder. Cotton is what made other people rich. Corner the market and do your thing!

[@hassanas.benjamin3818]

Im proud of him

[@ashleygola9400]

Well said sir. Proud of what your doing! Its beautiful what your doing! Keep up the fight!❤

[@llTorentll]

Love this! Positive thinking… optimism- exactly what our country needs. Good man

[@tadiafoster4460]

Much support to this partner

[@maryfields877]

Um, my mom was never a slave ( obviously) but when she was little, growing up in Georgia, that's how she made money for school clothes. It was her first job. My mom was able to share stories with my son when he got his first job. I don't see this as a negative. For alot of us it's our history.

[@JV-NY987]

How can you not see how that can be viewed negative. Great for your mom but c'mon..use your head

[@seanrowshandel1680]

Historically, there was a separation/decoupling of American cotton from the Eur-Afro-Asian market during the anti-English Revolution, when cotton must have became scarce in the English Empire Suddenly. It's symbolic to Americans because there's STILL "great responsibility which comes with great power". After all, it's certainly not Power. It's more like refuge, and using an ocean as a way to block "punches".

[@maryfields877]

@@JV-NY987 Sir, like it or not, this is our history. You can try to run from it, be mad at it, but it is what is is. Yes our people suffered in the fields, but they did so you don't have to. I've used my head, perhaps you should get out of yours.

[@JV-NY987]

@@maryfields877 whos running from it? I just said I can see why ppl would think its negative. All that other stuff you saying doesn't apply to me

[@JV-NY987]

@@maryfields877 if you cant see how its negative then you did NOT "use your head"

[@capt.confusion4744]

Iam sick of hearing about peoples horrid " memories " about slavery, when most can't remember saving green stamps or bye bye buy bonds.

[@richardgomez5008]

Slavery is history. Leave it there. What happening today? Asylums?

[@zeke5491]

Only the liberal media would make that connection. Maybe next they can find a black watermelon farmer

[@Cucumberflavoredmustard]

160 years ago. It's over. It's done and not coming back. If you want it gone too, stop bringing it up all the time.

[@hassanas.benjamin3818]

I will never ever forget it. I will never ever stop teaching it! When you are stupid and forget your past you are deemed to repeat that stupidity in the future. I will never stop bringing it up. Are you madd!! If its the truth....Let keep truth alive. But let build on it. I will never ever fully trust people who were the colonizers and are have owned slaves before. Ya maddd!!

[@hassanas.benjamin3818]

And lets not forget those colonizer and their children will pay for their deeds they have done to my people. TMH said he will make them Pay double for their wicked deeds .Look at whats happening to heirs of the colonizers and globally. It has already started!!! APTTMH!!

[@Cucumberflavoredmustard]

@@hassanas.benjamin3818 I rest my case.

[@lukewalker4813]

Now tie in the connection to why marijauna was first made illegal, because hemp was a cheaper, easier to grow alternative to cotton.

[@nullnull-b1s]

This segment was about "racism" (even though the owner of a cotton field is black?). The people that take this sort of stuff serious have zero concept on why hemp is illegal. Zero concept.

[@onestarabove7027]

Black farmers recently one a one billion dollar lawsuit against the government for denying farm loans to black farmers over the decades. It’s a shame so many farmers lost their land before this happened, 12 million acres, I believe. Go and buy some land, even if it’s just a little place.

[@tlockerk]

Anyone who has picked cotton or cut cane can speak to the pain...why shouldn't all kids have the experience? Might help them develop empathy for those in poverty worldwide who still have kids doing this type of work every day. Brilliant marketing idea!!

[@Eyeballz1]

as a half African American, I see no problem with what he farms!!

[@seanrowshandel1680]

Are you sure he's using the best SEEDS though?

[@seanrowshandel1680]

Are you sure he's using the best SEEDS, though?

[@bleepbloop7039]

as a 1/100 martian, I agree

[@jasonbilly5247]

Half 😂

[@RMMomma4Eva]

This is deep 😳

[@Ricky-j6u]

Seriously?

[@sjay2177]

think whoever wrote the introduction for Lindsay to read messed up.. WHICH THEIR ANCESTOR..im sure caught her off guard..

[@malachi-]

Give it a break already, so sick of all these feeds.

[@YellowMonkeyVirus]

slave trade is so painful so hurtful 😭😭😭🥱🥱🥱

[@richardgomez5008]

Slavery is history. Leave it there. Try humor on asylums, present.🤣🤣

[@jysonm2998]

Good old days

[@hassanas.benjamin3818]

Wow!?

[@pythondre]

1:05 This is where the video goes downhill.....

[@floydfulgiam6102]

Sorry man you can’t take away the negativity of pig cotton in this country called America. You can’t do it there’s no way in the world you gonna try to extinguish the negativity around picking cotton 400 years of that was enough. I understand that’s your cotton does your Cottonfield and you want to make a proper for yourself good fine go for it wish you the best but you can’t take away the negativity in the history. The negative and brutal history, black dark history of pink cotton in America, don’t try it just get out there and pick your cotton in your cotton field that you have, but don’t try to take away negativity you can it’s impossible. The legacy of the history of American Pickin cotton by blacks were always remain it would never go away.

[@abdoubouh715]

PEOPLE WHO TALK ABOUT PEOPLE'S COLORS ARE ALWAYS PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIVIDE. JUST SAY ONLY "FARMER FIGHTS STIGMA AROUND COTTON"

[@siatuvaismith9717]

That's really smart..

[@86MarcusP]

😲

[@1611_KJV-]

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Acts 8:37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Corinthians 15:3-4 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

[@talkingbutt3150]

Your God also made a trans-woman name EVE out of ADAM rib, so what your point ?

[@nullnull-b1s]

@@talkingbutt3150 *tips fedora*

[@mustachefannypack1100]

DEFUND HIP HOP

[@unrealshrimp]

It's pretty dying already don't you think, it was bigger when Kendrick Lamar was good and drake with future now it's all crap I don't think it's coming back