Tom Hagen said:
CanyonAg77 said:
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During a town hall event on Wednesday night, Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) running against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the Senate seat told a black American who questioned his support of illegal immigration that illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico are today's cotton pickers.
Brietbart blew that one. Workers in a cotton gin are not the same thing as cotton pickers, any more than working in a gas station makes you a roughneck.
He essentially told the guy that black Americans are too lazy to work in the cotton gin. Only illegals will do that work.
Lazy, or simply good at math? A cotton gin runs maybe 3-4 months out of the year, and only needs a couple of people to do off season repairs. Welfare and disability pay better, pay 12 months, and don't require a hazardous work environment.
The biggest problem is that part-of-a-year work time. The only people available to work at the gin are the folks who aren't good enough to work a year-round job.