A speaker recalls working cotton fields as a child and being taunted by a white girl in the shower house with a racial slur. When they told their mother, she told them to confront the girl next time, not run away. The story captures how families survived daily racial harassment in the Jim Crow South.
Y'all, I pulled cotton. Let's talk. I chopped. I lived on a plantation.
Ooh, y'all, I got a story behind that one right there. I'm listening. I'm here for it.
I went to, when I say I lived on a plantation, we had to go out and shower out in this outhouse because we had been out in the field all day. I was young, I didn't know. But this little girl told me, a little white girl, can I say that? Little white girl, she says, I'm in there showering, minding my business, she looked at me and she said, "Ooh, y'all niggas have to scrub to get white." She said what now? "Y'all niggas have to scrub to get white." And I was young, I didn't know no better, and it hurt my feelings. I'm like, "Ooh." So I ran inside and told my mother. My mother was very protective of all of us. I mean, even though it was a lot of us, she was protective of each and every one. Not just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, she all of us. And she told me, she said, "You shoulda told that little B-I-T-C-H." They have to say it.
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