King Cotton (1949)

A 1949 promotional film produced by The Jam Handy Organization for General Motors.
Shared for historical purposes.
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[@jaymillymills]

HARD TO BELIEVE THAT KZbin WOULD DEMONITIZE REELBLACK BECAUSE THEY PROVIDE US WITH VALUABLE HISTORY.

[@awareyah6146]

All I have to say to our oppressors GET READY TO PAY which is also a verse of mine

[@toddgardner6355]

You have to be oppressed to be able to claim to have oppressors. If you're writing verse, watching videos for entertainment, and making plans for your future; then you have no idea what oppression is.

[@ehzAxemuzik]

@@toddgardner6355 exactly!..that's what i tell these young yews(never been in a holycost - but still claim oppression)..similar to natives still claiming oppression from virus infected cotton blankets that was given to their ancestors!

[@jamessmith2634]

🤣🤣🤣

[@plmc747]

Still pushing that Eli Whitney & Cotton Gin creator, myth. The Slaves by virtue of necessity, are only ones that needed & could have created the Cotton Gin. Makes no sense that Eli did or could have done anything more than record by drawings & etc,, what Slaves found worked to ease their work pangs, pulling & sorting cotton bolls.

[@adolphmartin2014]

People in their 70s and 80s that pick cotton should be compensated

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

Which is REPARATIONS that the world government refuses to pay😒👹🤛🏾💯

[@didoudingue1801]

@@kayshawnsimmons6822 RÉPARATIONS ????? hélas my brother, ou heureusement...!Nous ne sommes pas de simples machines que l'on pourrait réparées ...NON ! Nous sommes bien plus que cela ,et si tout les pays esclavagistes refusent de payer des dédommagement aux descendants d'esclaves, c'est bien parce que la somme d'argent sera INESTIMABLE . Et tout ces pays qui ce sont enrichis du sang et de la sueur de nos parents ,seront alors RUINÉS...COMPLÈTEMENT RUINÉS !!!!! from France.

[@moonriver3552]

We were compensated. I picked and chopped cotton. It was called being employed back then.

[@patrickshea5955]

@@kayshawnsimmons6822 they got compensated....it was called their pay check 🤣 they weren't enslaved. They willingly chose the job. Like any black person that shows to pick cotton in the '80s isn't entitled to s***

[@rewade70]

I remember my father telling me how he grew up in Mississippi picking cotton as a kid. He also told me the horrors he witnessed as a kid.

[@ari333]

I've heard many stories from the elders about picking cotton growing up. This makes me reflect on them. I've learned something new today. Thanks!

[@shabazz6682]

One might almost think slavery didn’t exist watching this video.

[@Alma-999]

You're right and Im sure that was their intention too

[@lawsonj39]

One might almost think slavery never stopped watching this video.

[@WonderfullyMade_Lex]

Cotton Gin invented by the pioneers because the pioneers sat around fries picking seeds out of their cotton... just like the pioneers were shown picking their cotton from their fields & baling their cotton? Riiiiiight.

[@videocat1366]

Exactly. And did you notice, even with the modernization to remove the seeds and such, they never showed that someone still has to pick the cotton to begin with. I wonder who that is?

[@tpxchallenger]

@@videocat1366 @Video Cat Seriously? They clearly show cotton being hand picked by Black workers in the first few minutes of the film. Most of the workers shown in this film are Black.

[@videocat1366]

@@tpxchallenger That was before the cotton gin. The whole point of the remainder of the film was that things changed after the gin. My point is that something in particular had NOT changed, i.e., the people who pick the cotton.

[@tpxchallenger]

@@videocat1366 Cotton gin was invented in 1793. Before that cotton plantations weren't that profitable. In the US the large slave plantations were tobacco, rice, indigo. 1790, before the gin, US cotton production is only 1.5 million pounds. By 1830 it's 350 million pounds. I don't think anyone argues the fact that in the United States it has always been Black people who picked most of the cotton ever picked, right up til the 1950s when mechanical harvesters came into use. I'm sure not arguing.

[@videocat1366]

@@tpxchallenger Exactly. So why do they leave it out?

[@ElleBrOw]

Good afternoon reelblack 🙋🏽‍♀️ Speaking of cotton I ordered my baby blue reelblack hoodie.

[@reelblack]

Wonderful! Thank You Elle. Let me know how you like it.

[@_bumbaztic]

Cotton was used to make plastics, tires, lacquer (or what looks like paint to me). 😳 cars these days seem to be made with plastic on plastic. “We can send Jets out to space but can’t keep a bumper on a Cadillac” (a comic said that and I resonated with it). I learned something! Thank you for sharing.

[@b1bo840]

they play romantic music while showing black people slavin' in the sun

[@loahmadaidid1986]

Cotton has been king For Centuries. From Africa the Land of Kush along the Nile.

[@tpxchallenger]

Don't overlook Peru! The culture that eventually became the Inca began in neolithic times on the sea shore using cotton fishing nets over 5000 years ago.

[@allamericanveteran457]

Cotton was being cultivated in America before any place in the WORLD. Today, 80% of the worlds cotton supply comes from areas like Mississippi, Bama, LA, GA etc.

[@tpxchallenger]

@@allamericanveteran457 The US is third. China and India each produce almost twice as much as the United States.

[@dennycraig8483]

Brought to by general motors, let's just reflect on that for a moment. I wonder how many black men and white and black women are on the board of directors...

[@georgewilliams4333]

Driving chevies

[@valeriealvis7740]

Exactly!!!!

[@Macdaddy.]

Reparations for all black Americans

[@didoudingue1801]

REPARATIONS FOR ALL BLACK IN THE WORLD!!!!

[@kennethwatts4390]

@@didoudingue1801 No, just Black Americans

[@didoudingue1801]

@@kennethwatts4390 You have to grow better than that! Africans have been kidnapped not only to be deported to the United states of America ...but also to the French Caribbean, Spanish Caribbean, English Caribbean, Dutch Caribbean, Brazil, the Portuguese islands, Haiti, Cuba, exetera, exetera...without forget the African continent which has been stripped of its most robust populations. The United states of America is not the world ,but just a continent stolen by Europeans to the detriment of peoples who are the real Americans and whom they have wrongly named Indians ...the AMERICAN'S NATIVES !!!!! Moreover, it makes me laugh or cry a lot when they call black people "African American "while omitting to name themselves "European American's ". PEACE, LOVE AND UNITY.

[@georgewilliams4333]

With money that don’t buy 💩

[@realrapradioshow462]

He stole that cotton gun from a slave...that so ef up

[@dsloop3907]

wat gun?

[@realrapradioshow462]

@@dsloop3907 petty

[@keyco1121]

Ty for sharing 💓

[@jaymillymills]

Lol, why did I think this was a Cab Calloway film

[@didoudingue1801]

The cotton is taboo! Do you remember the days of slavery? BURN BABYLON...BURN! SAY IT LOUD...I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD!!!!! kisses from Paris

[@tpxchallenger]

This film was made in 1949, just as International Harvester was introducing their mechanical cotton harvesting machine. In only few more years hand picking of cotton dissapears in the US.

[@joedexter6445]

WoW

[@carlosrodriguezborges2990]

Cool videos

[@melissah7734]

Cotton gin invented by black man

[@MrDXRamirez]

You can look at cotton as a commodity and its history as a commodity will not match its history as a product of labor proving there are two ways of understanding human beings. We get a social history of cotton as a thing of exchange, trade and commerce, we get how cotton interacted with people as a value is written in the annals of history and then we get how people interacted with nature to make cotton when the labor-process is seen as a product of labor itself as it evolved from ancient times to now. This film does neither to further the scope of the viewer’s knowledge of the subject in the way of a general history of useful labor but it does give insight into current machine stage of manufacturing leaving out two previous stages in the history of manufacture that got the power of very little human labor to the point of ‘perpetual production’.

[@cheripiez67]

the volume on the video is quite low

[@keyco1121]

Niiice💖💖💖

[@georgewilliams4333]

Bo Wevil black man friend

[@corayweaver8870]

did this fool say a pioneers family tho lmao

[@keyco1121]

Seeds🐝🐝🐝💖💖

[@notalentstudios1106]

damn......what slaves?!!!?!?

[@baileydamnit8850]

1st let's go

[@audridior8781]

Ok u

[@dorisleyba5962]

I noticed, there werent as many on the planation picking as we have been falsely taught. Thus confirming indenturetude of the indigenous people #criticalthoughtconjecture #wewereherebeforeslavery

[@georgewilliams4333]

I think she’s talking about when the tractor was invented

[@dorisleyba5962]

​@@georgewilliams4333 Nope, -- I hoped my comment would encourage critical thought. we were taught thousands were allegedly brought here from africa to pick cotton and tobacco, but thats not revealed in the video; there are just some people working, as it was back in the day. The truth is, we were already here; then divided by skin tone hue, but to get us to do things we had already said no to, we were given promises - thus being indentured not slaves; slavery didnt happen until 17oo's and even that is questionable but plausible as its the main reasons for the colonizers need to protect themselves = from the indigenous who refused to work for nothing or for someone else and especially being forced to do so. Then there was the court case, the alledged Indian slaves took the city to court charging unlawful enslavement of indigenous peoples -- indigenous won- then the skintone hue separation began.

[@peggyrussell7527]

😯

[@blackdudemedia]

Eli what happened to your hair?

[@OK-gk1rp]

He rocked a ultra perm. And he had vitiligo that we didn't know.

[@blackdudemedia]

😝

[@zebra7467]

Talk about whitewashing ..

[@blackdudemedia]

Jeez...

[@reronal4940]

i call bullshit

[@vohidmirayubov2617]

Руски

[@corayweaver8870]

wait i thought Eli Whitney was a brotha n shit lol

[@corayweaver8870]

damn i was not listening

[@lisawalls1007]

Everyone have a BLESSED DAY and STAY SAFE

[@billharden7127]

Thank you and the same to you and yours.

[@bryanbrooks2634]

You too

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

You and your loved ones aswell

[@lisawalls1007]

@@kayshawnsimmons6822 Thank you!! 😃

[@lisawalls1007]

@@billharden7127 Thank you 😃

[@1BRWNSKN]

🤔 I'm still stuck at family sitting in thier chairs picking out the seeds ....😳 since when??

[@ukkfayooyay]

Oh man, 100 years ago many families eked out a living sitting around the kitchen table doing manual work for pennies.

[@yvonnewitherspoon846]

A place and time in our lives that helped America to become the country/continent it was and is 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@ohemdoublegee]

This channel was demonetized? For what, providing educational videos about our past?

[@SaNab7]

🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@kayshawnsimmons6822]

Yea, invented by a black man who didn't get any of the money for his idea his oppressor did🤡🤛🏾👹🤛🏾💯

[@christinecarmichael3150]

Yes. I heard the cotton gin was invented by a black man

[@SaNab7]

Sometimes I think those what we call white people are actually the aliens on this planet!!!

[@ohemdoublegee]

Sidenote: The narrator, what kind of accent is that? I've only ever heard this manner of speech in old film and television. Is this the transatlantic accent or is it something else?

[@nerdbamarich2063]

🙏🏾🙏🏾