Reply #134: Unreal. [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

Growing up in Arizona, there were plenty of job opportunities and there were white people that did them, although there were also migrant workers.
Chopping cotton for instance. They start at 4 am and finish at noon.
It's hard work but even back then it paid very well. My brother and I did that a couple of seasons.
My dad had a custom farming business back then and one of his clients was planting comphrey. It was another job that paid pretty good, but man it was hard work. You have to plant something like an inch apart with the bulbs facing up--or something equally as tedious.
We lasted until noon and had accomplished maybe an acre.
Personally, I have no problems with paying ANYONE a decent wage to pick lettuce or chop cotton or plant that godforsaken comphrey...the point is, people of all colors are capable of doing a hard day's work for decent pay and for McCain to insinuate otherwise, is nothing short of elitest (that's it--I am sending him my monogrammed towels).