King Cotton (1949)

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  • Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2024

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  • @jaymillymills
    @jaymillymills 2 года назад +11

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

  • @ari333
    @ari333 2 года назад +8

    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!

  • @awareyah6146
    @awareyah6146 2 года назад +25

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

    • @toddgardner6355
      @toddgardner6355 2 года назад +3

      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
      @ehzAxemuzik 2 года назад

      @@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
      @jamessmith2634 2 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @plmc747
      @plmc747 2 года назад

      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.

  • @rewade70
    @rewade70 2 года назад +13

    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.

  • @lisawalls1007
    @lisawalls1007 2 года назад +17

    Everyone have a BLESSED DAY and STAY SAFE

  • @adolphmartin2014
    @adolphmartin2014 2 года назад +26

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

    • @kayshawnsimmons6822
      @kayshawnsimmons6822 2 года назад +8

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

    • @didoudingue1801
      @didoudingue1801 2 года назад +1

      @@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
      @moonriver3552 2 года назад +2

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

    • @patrickshea5955
      @patrickshea5955 2 года назад

      @@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***

  • @_bumbaztic
    @_bumbaztic Год назад +1

    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.

  • @shabazz6682
    @shabazz6682 2 года назад +21

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

    • @Alma-999
      @Alma-999 2 года назад +4

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

    • @lawsonj39
      @lawsonj39 2 года назад +4

      One might almost think slavery never stopped watching this video.

  • @WonderfullyMade_Lex
    @WonderfullyMade_Lex 2 года назад +21

    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
      @videocat1366 2 года назад +6

      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
      @tpxchallenger 2 года назад +4

      @@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
      @videocat1366 2 года назад

      @@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
      @tpxchallenger 2 года назад +1

      @@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
      @videocat1366 2 года назад

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

  • @yvonnewitherspoon846
    @yvonnewitherspoon846 2 года назад +11

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

  • @ElleBrOw
    @ElleBrOw 2 года назад +10

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

    • @reelblack
      @reelblack  2 года назад +3

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

  • @loahmadaidid1986
    @loahmadaidid1986 2 года назад +7

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

    • @tpxchallenger
      @tpxchallenger 2 года назад +1

      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
      @allamericanveteran457 2 года назад +1

      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
      @tpxchallenger 2 года назад

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

  • @valeriealvis7740
    @valeriealvis7740 2 года назад +1

    Exactly!!!!

  • @b1bo840
    @b1bo840 2 года назад +4

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

  • @ohemdoublegee
    @ohemdoublegee 2 года назад

    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?

  • @1BRWNSKN
    @1BRWNSKN 2 года назад +4

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

    • @ukkfayooyay
      @ukkfayooyay 2 года назад +2

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

  • @dennycraig8483
    @dennycraig8483 2 года назад +2

    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...

  • @keyco1121
    @keyco1121 2 года назад

    Ty for sharing 💓

  • @Macdaddy.
    @Macdaddy. 2 года назад +18

    Reparations for all black Americans

    • @didoudingue1801
      @didoudingue1801 2 года назад +1

      REPARATIONS FOR ALL BLACK IN THE WORLD!!!!

    • @kennethwatts4390
      @kennethwatts4390 2 года назад +1

      @@didoudingue1801 No, just Black Americans

    • @didoudingue1801
      @didoudingue1801 2 года назад

      @@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
      @georgewilliams4333 2 года назад

      With money that don’t buy 💩

  • @tpxchallenger
    @tpxchallenger 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @jaymillymills
    @jaymillymills 2 года назад +1

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

  • @didoudingue1801
    @didoudingue1801 2 года назад +5

    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

  • @joedexter6445
    @joedexter6445 2 года назад +2

    WoW

  • @realrapradioshow462
    @realrapradioshow462 2 года назад +3

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

  • @carlosrodriguezborges2990
    @carlosrodriguezborges2990 2 года назад +1

    Cool videos

  • @ohemdoublegee
    @ohemdoublegee 2 года назад

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

  • @MrDXRamirez
    @MrDXRamirez 2 года назад

    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’.

  • @SaNab7
    @SaNab7 2 года назад +4

    🤯🤯🤯🤯

    • @kayshawnsimmons6822
      @kayshawnsimmons6822 2 года назад

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

    • @christinecarmichael3150
      @christinecarmichael3150 2 года назад +1

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

    • @SaNab7
      @SaNab7 2 года назад

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

  • @cheripiez67
    @cheripiez67 2 года назад

    the volume on the video is quite low

  • @nerdbamarich2063
    @nerdbamarich2063 2 года назад

    🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @keyco1121
    @keyco1121 2 года назад

    Niiice💖💖💖

  • @melissah7734
    @melissah7734 2 года назад +6

    Cotton gin invented by black man

  • @notalentstudios1106
    @notalentstudios1106 2 года назад

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

  • @keyco1121
    @keyco1121 2 года назад

    Seeds🐝🐝🐝💖💖

  • @georgewilliams4333
    @georgewilliams4333 2 года назад

    Bo Wevil black man friend

  • @blackdudemedia
    @blackdudemedia 2 года назад

    Eli what happened to your hair?

    • @OK-gk1rp
      @OK-gk1rp 2 года назад

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

    • @blackdudemedia
      @blackdudemedia 2 года назад

      😝

  • @peggyrussell7527
    @peggyrussell7527 2 года назад

    😯

  • @corayweaver8870
    @corayweaver8870 2 года назад +1

    did this fool say a pioneers family tho lmao

  • @dorisleyba5962
    @dorisleyba5962 2 года назад +2

    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
      @georgewilliams4333 2 года назад +1

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

    • @dorisleyba5962
      @dorisleyba5962 2 года назад

      ​@@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.

  • @baileydamnit8850
    @baileydamnit8850 2 года назад +3

    1st let's go

  • @zebra7467
    @zebra7467 2 года назад +1

    Talk about whitewashing ..

  • @reronal4940
    @reronal4940 2 года назад +1

    i call bullshit

  • @corayweaver8870
    @corayweaver8870 2 года назад +1

    wait i thought Eli Whitney was a brotha n shit lol

  • @vohidmirayubov2617
    @vohidmirayubov2617 2 года назад

    Руски