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... racist field trip I have ever been on

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in my fucking life. They took us to

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a fucking cotton processing place,

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and there was a big-ass cotton field

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out in the middle of fucking Ramer, Alabama,

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in the south of Montgomery County. We went there,

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and me and 28 other little niglets in

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Miss Harper's third-grade classroom,

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they took our asses out there in the middle

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of the fucking August heat, and said,

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"Hey, y'all" -- they gave us bags and shit.

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Cute little plastic bags with a

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cotton puff person with a smile on his face,

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and they're like,

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"Hey, y'all go out there, have fun,

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pick as much cotton as you want."

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And so my stupid ass went. You know? I went.

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My momma signed off on it and didn't think about it,

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and I went to the fucking field trip.

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[Cotton] at a field trip.

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They havin' a good old time.

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We were singing songs and shit,

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in the middle of the motherfucking field,

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picking god damn cotton,

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in the middle of the fucking heat.

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And then, you know, I'm thinking,

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because it's a field trip, they told us,

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"You can pick as much as you want,"

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hey, you get to keep the fucking cotton.

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You can keep it.

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So I was like, "Yeah, I'mma keep it." ["I'm going to"]

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And we go to get back on the bus, they're like,

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"All right, kids, turn your bags in."

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And they take our asses inside and

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took all the damn cotton that we had,

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and then told us to get back on the fucking bus.

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So me being a little rebel,

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I took a handful of cotton,

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stuffed it in my pocket, and went home.

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Then my momma, when she was doing

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laundry the next night, she was like,

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"What the fuck? Is this cotton in your back pocket?"

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I was like, "Yeah."

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"Where the hell did you get unprocessed,

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raw cotton from?"

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"Well, yesterday, on that field trip,

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they took us to a cotton processing plant,

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and we got to pick cotton all day long."

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My momma came to the school,

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and I swear to god, shit went down.

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She locked this woman in a room like,

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"How dare you jive-ass motherfuckers

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take my kid and all these other

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ashy little negroes to a fucking cotton

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field in the middle of the summer?

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You fucking soulless bitch."

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She fucking checked me out of school.

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I didn't go to school

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for three days behind that shit. She said,

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"I don't want to have to look at that bitch."

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She was pissed at everybody.

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Yes. That was the most racist shit I have

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ever gone through in my life. I didn't even

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understand what was wrong until the next year.

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I didn't even understand. I just thought we

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were just going to go have some fun in the field.

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So fuck that shit.

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That was fucking sharecropping

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if I ever seen it. Fuck that shit.