Elementary school field trip involving cotton picking and slave songs comes under fire
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- A South Carolina mother was outraged after her 10-year-old son was told to pick cotton and sing a “slave song” while on an elementary school field trip -- but the school reportedly defended the activity, saying it was about the "Great Depression."
And here I thought the video of the guy telling his friends about his racist field trip experience was just a joke.
yeah I was laughing at first cause he wasn't mad but now I feel bad
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Facts lmao 😂 I just watched that
Welcome to Alabama, how may we help you?
I actually came here from a reddit comment lol
"Where the Hell did you get unprocessed, raw cotton from?"
There are many fields still here in Tennessee.
Ron Allan 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄. You think cotton just magically shows up in stores?
@@cy1050 Thank you. I don't think they listened to Kendall's story.
I wasn't gonna bother replying to these people. My attitude was if you know, you know.
Only real ones understand this 😂😂😂😂😂
C Y it’s the racist field trip guy
“Please let this be a normal field trip”
“With the frizz?”
“NO WAY”
Nahhh💀💀
Cruisin’ down on main street- 💀💀
**time travels to 1850's America**
👵🏻
Bro 💀
This has potential to be one of the best lessons. Because raw cotton is very uncomfortable to touch. And it’s hard work. So telling the class to do that, then after about 10 minutes, telling them “imagine doing that everyday” would put things into perspective. That’s just how I see it.
that could be a potentially good idea to teach kids about the horrors of slavery, but it's still in pretty poor taste and i don't imagine that was the intended purpose of the field trip by that school
Yeah but they don't allow the kids to talk about slavery and dont teach them that slaves were forced to pick cotton. like it's a censored topic. how is that a good lesson?
@@ymaysernameuay1113 because black people are lazy
@@securitybureauagent3714 just shows good of a brainwashing that has been done to black's in lands of our great ancestors!!!! Yes, these are our land's!!!! Stolen by the very racist people you claim was just joking about slavery
You said it has good potential right....... Then when you and your ancestors experience the exact same fact's, you are agreeing with right now, it's all good!!!!!! Let's show all these good white folks, that are just like this white individual that says , this is a great lesson to demonstrate on White's as well!!!!! Enslave whites in the exact same manner and everyway they treated our ancestors!!!!!!! In every way!!!!!! The exact same factual way!!!! Willie Lynch methods 100000000%%%%%%%
Thank you Sir! You've just solve a great debate easily!!!! We're getting right on it!!!!
keeping the tradition alive -👴🏼
Shut up
your user 💀
Bro💀
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"Yor god dman right!
“I like the way ya don’t talk back.” 🎶
osiris ummm what I’m not black so umm yeah
Make money for me 🎵🎶🎵🎶
@@tarajisans4809 now thats racist
@@agwgwhshwbw-xk8uv "i like when white people are racist but cant fight back"🎶
@@urijugg ohh damn
Next field trip y’all gonna be tryna escape a gas chamber and they gone say this what happens in a microwave
Lmfao
😂
Lmao
Lmfao omg
Bruh
i hate everything about this but the old dude kinda got a point those who forget history are bound to repeat it
that was the best part of the cod trailer tbh
Yep
Read a damn book then, watch a documentary. Don't make black kids relive slavery work lol
Well they sure did repeat it didn’t they
@@DarkStormProduction5 im playing the worlds smallest violin just for you. Cry about it. It was education. Your country is fuked. Ruined by the liberal agenda.
"it's a family tradition" 👴🏻
👴🏿 say Billy wher not doing this again
💀 DAMNNNN
@@ktg_pesojr7885 “agree Grandpa”-🧑🏿🦱
“We are not picking up your cotton no more you mayonnaise jar”-👴🏿
@@wakeful_monthgaming8496 "You don't tell me what to do you walking nutella jar " 👴🏻
I'm so sorry but
"Song slaps harder than the whip"- 👴🏾
Your not funny
I don’t forgive you
Not funny find a new joke
its called dark humor, cope.@@partypartyyeah303
That's hilarious
Blame the parents..they read the permission slip..
John john bro they were singing shit. Did u even listen in the beginning of the video?
John john it's the schools fault idiot.
THEY DIDN'T NEW DUMBASS
@@mumumumu7013 its sad the parents should of read it
The permission slip LIED by misleading parents to think the field trip was about Great Depression history.
I think this coud have been a good idea for a field trip if they explained it better and treated it with more respect. I think making it a game is inappropriate but I see nothing wrong of putting students in the shoes of slaves even for half an hour. I think instead of sheltering our kids from the past we should introduce them to hard topics in a smart way. Maybe this was not the best approach but I see what the school was trying to do.
Bruh when you go to the museum of tolerance you’re able to literally walk into gas chambers and stand and lay on some of the housing snacks that kept them.
I agree. The people in charge were not wise.
We actually did something like this in middle school. It was essentially a role play where we, as a group, were put in the shoes of a group of slaves from being auctioned off to going through the Underground Railroad. It was conducted by a historical society in the area, I think, and the route went through a wooded area meant to replicate the era in terms of architecture- historical cabins, wells, old farms… things like that. It was pretty intense, but it always stuck with me, and those involved definitely did their homework. I’m pretty sure the camp still does this, too.
Edit: Decided to do a google to make sure I wasn’t viewing the past through rose-colored glasses- Yes, this camp still does it, and it remains virtually unchanged from the time I went through, including characters played by counselors that represent different perspectives on slavery from the time period, like a Quaker, an abolitionist, a John brown follower, fellow slaves, etc. It was a really cool experience, and I think kids should be given more hands on education opportunities like this where context is explained in an engaging way, rather than making a game out of it like this video.
well these are like 8 year old kids even if you explain it to them they are innocent and even see it has a game i see no wrong with learning about agriculture etc. now i understand why African American people get mad because the kids saw cotton picking has fun this is why instead of learning about it ate such a young age they should learn it later in middle school so they understand what it meant ate the very least. but in my opinion black people are very lucky in a way there history is taught in all schools in the USA has for Cajun and other cultures are swept beneath the rug.
@C0tton Bro its not that bad as some of the stuff i seen dealing with racist school incidents as a person of color i wouldnt be that offended
The internet literally has a viral video about this exact field trip yet they still went on it.
Lol ive seen it
@@calebkent6706 link?
Kids don’t watch the same videos adults do
@@oogabooga2890 see the 'Kendall on sharecropping field trip' video.
@@NachoCheeseTostada not this type of video tho we understand the context they woudnt find themselves on this side of TH-cam they watching mr beast and fortnight videos
Teaching them young 👴🏻
“That’s my type of education”-👴🏻
Honestly, when I was in second grade- We had a special guest come in, and she brought every one of us Cotton for us to pick the seeds out or something, and it hurt. It was prickly at times, and she would say "Now imagine having to do that every day. That is what the slaves had to do back in the 1700's to the 1800's even longer than that." and that put a whole perspective on everything for me. It made me understand a little better at African American suffering. Not from a full frontal empathically advanced standpoint, but enough to really kind of see how messed up stuff were for them from a physical experience, and that was only the tip of the ice berg. I don't see anything wrong with the field trip- They really should have stated more about the history revolving around African American history, but maybe they did explain it, and some of the kids just didn't listen. There are so many variables that went into this, and I know I am late to the party as this video was made in 2019, but irregardless I don't see the harm in this, and it seems as if everyone is too offended about every little thing- Be offended where offense is intended, not when it has pure intent for the student's future understanding in mind.
Wow. A reasonable take.
Man wrote a whole essay
@@sunofx4142 you make me mad for some reason
No this is wrong. No parents will want to see their children suffer what they suffered. Like the ancestors, will not want to see their descendant suffer what they suffered.
Suffrage means the right to vote. Please use correct grammar when discussing serious matters, or nobody will take you seriously.
At first, I thought it was teaching them how hard life was for slaves...ancesters. That would of made sense. Why they stop the interview....just weird
@pworldthug 69 pretty sure it was a white boy who stopped the interview but yeah, ok
Agreed
If that was the case why would they lie about it saying it was the great depression? What they where clearly doing was make it look like being kidnapped and worked to death was fun.
@@sylodui it’s not a lie, cotton production didn’t end in 1865. They say this is about sharecropping
agag where show me
I wonder if this is the school trip that Kendall went on.
Billy Pittl no the one he went to was in Alabama
Lmao “mY liTtLE kENdAlL”
“I like it when you don’t talk back”
That sounds sus out of context but in a different way- 😭
LMFAOOO
“Gotta teach ‘em young.” - 👨🏻🦳
Yk white slavery happened before over in north africa
@@jakobahubbard4603 but then they slaved u Niggas for years and to this day y’all still trynna get ur rights back so think that’s fact you just said and see what u guys did with that knowing you had the upper hand at one point
@@jakobahubbard4603Thank you for bringing that up!
Hmmmmm, funny how she must have signed the damn PERMISSION slip to let her child go....
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It tricked the parents dumb ass
Lia and Ria sure like the school totally wanted to create a huge controversy
@@oiltycoonbillionaire well people found out so
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So their field trip is making those kids do chores???lmao yea that’s soooo fun
Jim Lahey ok boomer
@GrodWare maybe doing things that are actually fun and interesting instead of incredibly racist chores and singing
GrodWare I know people that went on this field trip Alabama has been doing this for years, and trust me there was no history being taught most of the kids are oblivious to what’s happening until years later
@Backup🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Backup bruh do they make white kids do this as well in Alabama?
I love how they say it's about the great depression
Ex Slaves prior to 1865 weren't the only folks picking cotton in american after 1865.
Share cropper were both black and white
“that’s the best school” -👴🏻
“Im taking a break, im tired!”- 👨🏿🌾
@@vedawoods6472 👴🏻”get back to work boy or else you know what gon happn!”
@@mouthman1335 “ *sigh* yessir 🙁”- 👨🏿🌾
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@@mouthman1335 dark humor lol
Imagine paying for a field trip just to relive your past life😭💀
Im black yet WHY AM I LAUGHING 😂
What Past Life
@@link_tic3287 imagine if you where a slave in your past life and then you payed for this field trip just to pick cotton again
@@Camfrm2400 Alright Quandingle
That doesn't even make sense. Black people today nor for 150 years know what it was like to be a slave so they should really get over it at this point
Lmao, she says it’s ignorance on their part when the guy who runs it is a Black former Cotton farmer SMH 🤦♂️
Never heard of Uncle Tom eh?
pworldthug 69 republicant i assume?
Bro, it's ok for me to own slaves, I'm black. It's ok bro, I'm black.
@@jobansand Ikr like I need my slaves at all times
@@jobansand well they did do that back then. Black Africans also owned slaves who were black
They were explaining it pretty well, and frankly I was kinda seeing both sides of the issue when then white guy stepped in and put a stop to it. Seems kinda problematic.
Right? I was honestly interested in hearing the black dudes perspective on it before white dude cut it off. Like he's afraid of something. Let them speak!
Both sides...?!
As a black man i have no problem with this
Because your a pick me.
@@robloxjada61 If you’re going to insult him, at LEAST use the right form of (you’re)
You're not black uncle ruckus
Me either. It's funny
Since your skin has more melanin than mine your judgement is better than mine. please provide more insight "as a black man."
This is why people say “History that’s forgotten often repeats itself”
Bruh i thought that dude was joking lmaooooo
Susana Caraballo 😂💀
Lol I remember when we did this back in the day.
But yeah the old dude was right about how people forget history.
Yea like he did, how is I like it you don’t talk back and make money for me involved in the Great Depression
I don't think it's intended to be a mockery but to physically show kids history and what people went through. Unless you experience working in searing heat and doing the job, a text book can never convey that message.
People just kinds sensitive these days man
@@vlz.matthew that’s like taking a Jewish kid to a gas chamber and telling them to lay down and sings songs about it. Wtf is sensitive about it
@@vlz.matthew It’s a sensitive topic, I see both sides, but side more with the parents.
Nah bro we can’t let this slide, picking cotton is crazy 😂
They literally were singing blues bruh 😂
This whole situation is a prime example of, "He's a little confused but he's got the spirit." I definitely see why they did that and it's important for kids to experience history first hand because most kids don't pay attention in history class. However the execution was totally wrong. I think making the kids pick one piece of cotton and then explaining that slaves did that all day in the heat while facing many other issues would have been much better.
I wish I can turn back time👴🏻
I feel sad that this happened but I also have to blame their parents. Education starts at home not in the classroom. You must teach your kids, otherwise, you leave it to society
That was an awful take.
I blame the slave owners descendants for keeping that alive still and not teaching the truth in school that's who you should blame the people that's on stolen land still
This is a shitty way of putting it, parents dont need to do this, history classes or us studies have to do this so that the children understand it for what it actually was, not a fun subject.
@@johncooper7663 i felt the same way, reading that was like smelling a dumpster
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I really didnt mean to laugh Because it isnt a joke, but like REALLY? “Whoever picked the least amount of cotton had to hold the big bag” 😂
decondemon called BIG MAMA
B I G M A M A
The problem is they’re trying to avoid slavery and say something like it was bad for everyone during the Great Depression without acknowledging that lots of sharecroppers were sharecroppers because they were formerly or there family was formerly enslaved
A small percentage.
"gotta teach them while they're young"- 👴🏻
I’m black but “I like it when you don’t talk back” 💀💀
Picking cotton in Black History Month is like telling the children in my family, hey let's go for a walk called Trail of Tears which is over 5,043 miles long.
That 1000s of my ancestors
lmao you're probably only like 3% native
man only wants to flex that he is native, which he prolly is not
bro why are you attacking this dude it’s literally the internet bro..
@@jayla_4939 it’s literally the internet bro THATS WHY
Yep
School: "No no! We are learning about the Great Depression."
Riiiiiiiiiight 😒
You mean the guy who literally said it's what he and his parents did to survive during the great depression
The slave owners were really depressed when they couldn't keep owning people...
@@R.Kardos right lmbo
You don't think black folks worked cotton field during the depression? Stop believing everything BLM tells you, it will only make you more ignorant.
apparently the people running this place have a point, looks like people don’t know about black people working on cotton fields as sharecroppers after they were emancipated
I'm white and whites picked cotton too my grandfather did it as a child and my great grandfather did it too picking cotton was not just a race thing it was what poor people did to make money back in the day. Why does everything have to be about race these days.
@Galleon so did blacks
Like the good ol days-👨🏻🦳
Once my teacher had a lesson where we did things similar to what slaves used to have to. I had to individually remove every line from a bit of string. Took me about half an hour for one 10cm long bit of string. In dead silence by the way. She said to us “imagine having to do that everyday with almost no food or water”
Really put it into perspective
The melanin saved these teachers from being cancelled
You're god damn right
"Now this is the type of field trip I can get behind." - 👴🏻
man i need one of those kids👴🏻
Stawp that's gotta be racist
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@@RoadTo500Subscri actually being racist isn’t a joke I don’t care whether you think it is a joke or not you don’t have a right to be making jokes like that especially if your white
@@MyPookieLebronJames um actually -🤓
@@MyPookieLebronJames Says the fortnite kid
“That is how it should be” 👴🏻
Bro the teachers are literally black.
They guy who lived through it: "It's a valuable lesson"
The woman who doesn't have anything to do with it: "It's offensive."
Do you think Jewish parents want their Jewish kids to go on a field trip reenacting the holocaust??
@@Olivierstreet they aren't reenacting slavery you fucking moron
Ignorant asf 😂
@@scatman8963 so the slave song was just a coincidence lol
Ok what’s the valuable lesson then?
Is it the one where the dude roasted the fields trip about being racist
no that dude is grown up and his field trip was probably a longgg time ago and this was 4 months ago
Mrslayer 39 THATS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO LOOK UP
@@markswoodshop9614 same
Nope not my son..he wouldn't be going on that field trip..no slavery over here period
But they signed a permission slip tho. How could it be slavery now?
Weak
“Jamel escaped! Come back here Jamel!” -👴🏻
The kids need to understand their history. That and it makes them become better people with better understanding. It's not like they were getting whipped.
“It’s just tradition” 👴🏻
It’s called history, that’s how they learn
For real having hands on activities like these as kids is really helpful to understand
@@tredaviousbowser7931 yeah
That's like telling me I can't understand the Holocaust unless I starve myself and gas myself. Or unless I walk the trail of tears I can't understand my ancestors
@@TheReddShinobi13 dude, 10-20 minutes of work is not comparable to slavery, retards will be retards
@@sevendacweamstr7692 I went on this exact field trip, and they had us picking for hours.
This is what we in Europe call shock history tutorials. To teach the wrongs of history it's often important to experience what others experienced. In Europe there's a museum that will allow someone to sit in a death cage for five minutes to see just how unbearably cramped it is. In my opinion this was to teach children how slaves felt back then, when you experience their experiences, it becomes personal and emotional to you so you comprehend the wrongs more than you did.
I think all kids should go on this field trip, show them why slavery is bad through immersive, personal experience.
Maybe for black people as a white person i am safe
This is an awesome idea...to remind the young of how far we have come,and how comfortable, ungrateful and unappreciative this generation has become.
All I hear is a post-modern, egocentric, feelings-based take on this from a woman who has no experience in what she's talking about. I'll go with the words of the man who actually lived through what he's talking about.
Fr people really be getting mad when they never even went through that and they act like they do
The parents signed that permission slip
Let’s be honest though. Most people don’t read the fine print.
You honestly think parent read permission slips
@@MagicallyElena We try lol.
It said it only contained about the Great Depression era not slavery songs and history about slavery
a shame more people don't read what they sign and then get outraged later at what they were already informed about but chose to ignore
I think I wanna teach at this school- 👴🏻
Brings back the good memories - 👴🏻
Bruh 🤣🤣
I didn't see no whips
ikr fake and stage
the best thing about this is that he got kicked out right after asking why they neglected to mention the slavery part of the field trip
why they didn't mention the slavery aspect of a lesson about a time that came 70 years after slavery was abolished in the us is a very good question if you're not listening
“I never knew we’d bring this back”-👴🏻
Ahh the good ol days👴🏻
day is never finished
Master got me workin
Someday master set me free
As a black kid whose parents immigrated from Nigeria i have nothing to say about this
The song itself waz racist.” I like it when you pick it like that, I like it when you don’t talk back, make money for me” WTF!!!
So the old man who been thru it before has no problem but the young self entitled woman finds it extremely offensive to her ancestors 😂😂😂 the old dude like “wtf I am your ancestor 😂😂”
Exactly
🤣🤣🤣
he's eighty not a hundred and forty
@@nocapnokizzy he could literally be her grandpa's age. So he yeah he is technically her ancestor
@@quissbird-10 I meant at the time as in he wouldn't have been in the slave trade if he's only 80 something
“What’s the problem?” - 👴🏻
days never finished, master got me working
exactly why you should never go to South Carolina… what an excuse of a state
You know, i can see what they were trying to do, they just needed to explain it a bit better than simply sending out permission slips to students and hope the parents read through it all.
Great Depression Era and Slavery are two different events how does that even equate?
It equates that no matter your level of servitude, you will always be a slave to those who would be owners" if you let them.
After all what is the real definition of of slavery?
@@mikedickison244 That's a good argument for learning useful skills right there.
"Gotta teach em young" 👴🏻
This comment is funnier than the other two I’ve read already
Man I miss these days. 👨🏼🌾
me: *time travels*
me: *hits rock*
⬜🔨⬛
when I was a kid and lived in Costa Rica we had agricultural class... we had a little field in the back of the school and we go plant vegetables and learn how to properly plant them and learn about seasons and weather and such.
That is a completely different scenario
@@BeccaWaffle93 oh I know, I agree 100%, I think we should have a "gardening" class to teach kids to grow food, no need to involve slavery themes, I don't see teachers having kids fight to the death when they teach ancient roman history lol, this kinds of teaching methods are questionable at best.
@@Tikolico ???? At first, I gave you the benefit of doubt. If you are quiet and just listened, we would not know how ignorant or tone deaf you are.
The convo is about a teacher that was trying to show children how hard slavery was. Has nothing to do with agricultural education. SMH
i bet you sometimes sang songs too, you racist bastard /s
@@Tikolico nah they can actually be quite good, the problem is that it doesn't seems like that was the intention
Teach em young -👴🏻
Next trip will be escaping North Korea and saying it’s tag
It's only racist if you make it racist. It's acting out history which is fine.
"Bring your child to work" day
Bruh who tf actually thought this was a good idea
They have been doing it for a long time now maybe it never crossed their minds because they didn’t feel it was linked you see it only becomes a problem when someone becomes offended and then it blows up making people think negativity towards it. Maybe everyone never saw anything wrong with it because they’re wasn’t anything really wrong with it. It proves that snowflakes are ruining everything and actually invoking more hate than doing any good
i dunno maybe the two black guys that run it who actually lived through the same experience
“Reminds me of them days again you know” - 👴🏻
“runs in the family blood” 👴🏻
I don't see why it's so bad to give kids a better understanding of history like this.
Bcos it isn't history if you're *altering it..🤷🏽♀️
@@mzzodiacc im not seeing the altering?
@@CyrodiilicKhajiit telling kids this is a part of the great depression instead of saying kids this is what happened back in 1800s when slave slaves picked cotton I wouldn’t feel comfortable with my kids picking cotton as an education experiment. I don’t want them to reenact history. I want them to learn from it.
“Why would I want my son to pick cotton?”
A man needs a trade 😂😂😂😂
This was amazing good history lesson
"Why would I want my son to pick cotton?" To understand what cotton picking was like. I think this is valuable for kids.
It’s edifying and educational for students to be made to feel the reality of slavery so that it doesn’t exist as a mere abstraction for them. Not at all a mockery.
How does anybody still does this to a black kid and doesn't get a black eye or two in the process is beyond me.
My dad is white and picked cotton with his bare hands til they bled. Quit crying and let your kids learn how tough life used to be.
I wish my school would take field trips like that
For real
One time my school had a field trip to a skating rink.
@@prophecy8652 Mine went to the old theater but it was abandoned when we went.pretty cool
“get back to work” - 👴🏻
The fact that the kids are laughing is because they still awake and history is history not their reality. The fact that they went to the fields just give them opportunity to see how important is to work as a community and as one. Some people are just on focus on teaching hate and aggressive thoughts. Stop teaching kids about rights without responsibility. If they learn what being responsible and good to themselves and the ones around them the right of claiming their rights will not be taken by anyone. STOP Racism by not creating hate among people. History don't define you, your actions do.
The thing is: whites and blacks alike picked cotton, during and after slavery. It was trade like any other. I know there is a heavy connotation but this is an opportunity to learn about something here. The mother is overblowing this up.
Master got me working
I was on Instagram trying to find the vid and saw this... ✌🏾🤡