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I keep hearing CNN's Pamela Brown use it. Can non-whites be salt of the earth folks?
marble falls
(57,282 posts)malaise
(269,193 posts)Not that I hadn't seen through her ages ago
marble falls
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JohnSJ
(92,422 posts)underpants
(182,914 posts)and got out of the Civil War. Main salt producer to North and South. Its not personal, its business.
48656c6c6f20
(7,638 posts)The area was mostly small farms and some salt mines. It was a much more complicated issue though.
My home state is a shadow of itself. And it's sad.
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/181568
It is a custom of the United States Senate that allows a minority coalition (as small as 41 senators) to block a bill supported by the majority. History offers several deleterious examples of giving a legislative minority the ability to suppress the majority. One such example can be found in antebellum Virginia, where an Eastern slaveholding elite feared losing their majority to politicians from the rapidly growing, mostly non-slaveholding population of Western Virginia. To prevent this, Easterners concocted rules that allowed slaveholders (and thus, Easterners) extra power in the legislature. This sense of political oppression by an elite minority generated immense antipathy in Western Virginia, eventually leading to the rupture of the state during the American Civil War.
Shellback Squid
(8,927 posts)Definition of the salt of the earth
: a very good and honest person or group of people
but easily misled
myohmy2
(3,178 posts)...to be like salt you have to be pigment challenged...
...not sure but I think the meaning is that some people taste more salty than others...
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questionseverything
(9,661 posts)When you bless a house you give bread, so the house never knows hunger
Salt for flavor
And wine for happiness
Of course poc can be and are salt of the earth peops
Walleye
(31,062 posts)malaise
(269,193 posts)Raine
(30,541 posts)can be any color. 👍
kozar
(2,135 posts)Salt was used as money. I read somewhere that the saying ( in reasonably same form) meant if a person was salt of the earth, they were as trustworthy and good as money.
Koz
malaise
(269,193 posts)Solomon
(12,319 posts)TxGuitar
(4,211 posts)malaise
(269,193 posts)JanMichael
(24,894 posts)Tanuki
(14,922 posts)"Though salt of the earth is a venerable expression with biblical origins, it has managed to provoke a salty linguistic controversy. The phrase derives from Jesus Sermon on the Mount: You are the salt of the earth. (Matthew 5:13) Jesus meant that the common people he was addressing fishermen, shepherds, laborers were worthy and virtuous."...(more)
malaise
(269,193 posts)but I meant today's meaning
Red Mountain
(1,737 posts)I doubt that's even a consideration but I don't think it's a dog whistle.
Yes they are.
ProfessorGAC
(65,213 posts)Adds a lot to presentation, tastes the same.
It's typically mined in Pakistan and the pink comes from trace amounts of minerals, particularly iron, calcium & magnesium.
It's mined, so it's literally "salt of the earth" & it's not white!!!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)Jesus called his devoted followers the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13), and that phrase has been used ever since.
Skin color has nothing to do with it.
Salt comes in various colors anyway.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,037 posts)against a mining company in New Mexico.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_of_the_Earth_(1954_film)
malaise
(269,193 posts)Thanks
marybourg
(12,638 posts)DBoon
(22,400 posts)I recall it was a favorite showing at left wing fundraisers in the 1980s
JanMichael
(24,894 posts)VGNonly
(7,511 posts)were non-professionals. Will Geer (Grandpa Walton) played the sheriff. In reality he was a communist, and hung out with Woody Guthrie.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)I guess you're inferring something about Brown, and I don't know her enough to comment regarding her personally.
But one of the people I've seen interviewed by various reporters is a man named Ivy Williams, whose wife worked in that candle factory. Both he and his wife are the very definition of salt of the earth, which is one of the reasons they've been so interested in his story.
I haven't watched coverage today, and I assume she didn't survive. The whole thing is so tragic, and his particular circumstance illustrates it so heartbreakingly perfectly.
Really, making political hay out of this awful disaster is just...