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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSean Hannity ends his interview w/Trump by thanking nonexistent pharmaceutical company Eli Whitney
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What a shitshow.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts).
Message delivered, and received.
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Ex Lurker
(3,814 posts)This is why we get laughed at.
TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)ZZenith
(4,122 posts)he sounded like he was completely soaked in gin, so maybe its just a Freudian slip.
Or, could be a message - I put nothing past the creature.
Celerity
(43,407 posts)Whitney is most famous for two innovations which came to have significant impacts on the United States in the mid-19th century: the cotton gin (1793) and his advocacy of interchangeable parts. In the South, the cotton gin revolutionized the way cotton was harvested and reinvigorated slavery. Conversely, in the North the adoption of interchangeable parts revolutionized the manufacturing industry, contributing greatly to the U.S. victory in the Civil War.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)It is only mild exaggeration to say the man caused the Civil War, and ended it in favor of the Union, by the action of his two great innovations.
Norbert
(6,040 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)that provides the cotton in pill bottle.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)PCIntern
(25,554 posts)Get your cotton-picking hands off my gin.
And thus the invention came to pass!
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)We grew up with that expression in the South, and didn't realize what it meant until we were adults.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)It's interesting how as a kid I had no idea of the racist connotation of the phrase. It was just something funny he would say, always in a joking manner (which meant he was in a good mood and was a great deal of fun to be around). As an adult you start putting two and two together. And it's easy to see how biasis get passed along...especially the unconscious kind.
catbyte
(34,402 posts)lower Michigan. Seriously, I didn't meet a Black person until I went to college so it must've migrated north---just like the morans who fly the Confederate battle flag. You're probably right about the origin of the phrase, though.