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FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015 file photo, Southern author Julia Reed responds to a question at the Mississippi Book Festival in the Galloway Methodist Church Sanctuary, in Jackson, Miss. Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died, Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. She was 59. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died
GREENVILLE, Miss. -- Julia Reed, who wrote about food and culture in the South and promoted her native Mississippi Delta, has died. She was 59.
Reed died Friday of cancer, the editors of Garden & Gun magazine said in a post on the magazine's website. She was a contributing editor to the magazine, which chronicles life and culture in the South, and had written numerous books about the region, including one about drinking and dining in New Orleans.
In a tribute on the magazine's website, historian Jon Meacham described her as a “tsunami of talent, charm, and energy.”
“She could write about anything and make it sing,” he said. “Her distinctive voice was at once affectionate and arch—a tough combination to pull off.”
Reed grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, before embarking on a writing career that took her to Washington, D.C., New York and New Orleans. She attended parties with the likes of former Secretary of State and Army Gen. Colin Powell and former Vice President Al Gore, but was a champion of her native Mississippi, according to Meacham.
She built a house near her parents in Greenville and turned a local tamale festival into a gathering of writers, chefs and artists to raise money for affordable housing and development.
The governor of Mississippi and the state's Arts Commission named her a cultural ambassador in 2019 in part for her work with the festival, according to Meacham.
A chapter in her book, “Julia Reed’s South,” eventually led her to dedicate an entire book on how to party and dine in New Orleans, The Times Picayune/New Orleans Advocate reported. She called it “Julia Reed’s New Orleans: Food, Fun and Field Trips for Letting the Good Times Roll.”
In addition, Reed served on the board of the Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans, the newspaper said.
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Julia Reed, author, Newsweek contributing editor and certified southerner, used a rather antiquated swear-word substitute on CNN’s "Anderson Cooper 360" last night that has got some people calling for her head.

“If he thinks that some guys on the rigs are the only people that will be affected by a six-month oil moratorium, he’s out of his cotton-picking mind,” she said.

A Facebook stream has popped up, characterizing the phrase as a “racial slur,” though several in the discussion argue it was not intended that way and something that “old people” say all the time.

Think Progress thought it was “racially charged” when Lou Dobbs said it. (Hat tip: Democratic Underground ) What do you think?
what morons! my grandmother, as a girl in north Texas in the late 1800s picked cotton with her siblings from can't see to can't see; there was nothing racial to it. You picked or you and your family didn't eat.
I grew up using the phrase, "Out of his rabbit-assed mind." I suppose some people would say this was a slur on Bugs Bunny, It's just an expression.
addicted to mungling, is he a mungle junkie?
What total idiots. I'm 55 and originally from northeast Texas. As kid I remember my father, mother and grandparents all complained about picking cotton at one time or another, and they were all white. When someone refers to "cotton-picking", its always with dirision. My mother always used the adage "****tin' in high cotton" as a very positive situation, since the high cotton covered your ass.
What do I think?
What most normal people would think.
DU is out of its cotton-pickin' mind.
Everyone is so friggin overly sensitive these days... I'm 50 years old and consider "cotton-pickin mind" to be a polite way of not swearing... Unfortunately in today's society, if she had said, "Out of his god-damned mind," no one would have said a thing.
I did not see the show and I do not know this woman, but as a Southern woman I can tell you that using the term "cotton-picking mind" is not meant to have any racial connotation whatsoever. Let's drop all this nit-picking, divisive garbage and focus on the issues!
Julia Reed, yet another Liberal FeminAzi Racist Bigoted piece of crap....Next....
Racial slur? Well, it depends. If it was uttered by a Republican then the answer is Yes. If it was said by a DemocRAT then the answer is No. Fairness in America today.
I was born and raised in NC where I still live. I heard that expression all the time when growing up. It is not a racist statement.
Wait, I'll go ask the monkey on my porch and let you know what he thinks.
I was watching and thought immediately that it was. It made me cringe. Why? I'm from the South and white.
I don't think she meant it that way necessarily, but she was overly emotional and personal, which is unprofessional for a magazine editor to begin with.
The problem is that same overheated emotion led her to use a term that is certainly from her childhood, from the old South folkways.
Who picked cotton mostly in the old South days? Hmmm, let's see, mostly black slaves.
I understand that many White farmers did too. My grandparents certainly did. And my father grew up working on cotton fields in Arkansas.
But so what? I don't know the exact origin of the phrase, but it is uncomfortably close to the idea that cotton-pickers are crazy and most cotton-pickers were black or migrant Mexican guest workers.
Attaching that to the president is problematic for those very basic reasons.
So the problem is that Reed should know better.
I also noticed that it is the older commenters here who see no issue.
No surprise there either.
Why do we waste time with such nonsense? I've heard that expression all my life and it never had any racial connotation. The cult of permanant victimhood marches on, determined to find new reasons to pity itself.
Why do we waste time with such nonsense? I've heard that expression all my life and it never had any racial connotation. The cult of permanant victimhood marches on, determined to find new reasons to pity itself.
Julia should KEEP her job. This isn't a slur; it's a non-issue. What? This man who sh*ts in a toilet like everyone else is above rebuke, reproach, or insult? Is he above the opinion and free speech of the American people? No he is not. Are we to put our careers in jeopardy for what you say about THIS man? Unless you're in the Cabinet - I think not. This isn't even racial. Now, if Julia would have said ''he's out of his pick-a-ninny mind,' or his 'nappy headed mind' or his 'black a**ed mind' - you might have a case. What she said is a common Southern expression. It's totally "Americana." Since the President's ancestors weren't slaves (at least not in this country), let alone anywhere near the cotton fields of the plantation kingdoms of the Antebellum South, the Left-flank, race card high-rollers can forget this. Twice. You had better believe that at this point, alot of people all over this nation are calling him the "N" word offline and behind closed doors. If they're not actually saying it out loud they're definitely thinking it in silence, keeping their thought(s) to themselves. That's reality. If you disagree, you're kidding yourself; either that or you're inhaling pink fairy dust.
REPUBLICANS ARE RASCISTS BECUASE THEY ARE ALL CHRISTIAN BIGGOTS.
This (mock) offense over one expression or another is partly due to the niggardly spending on grammar education in this country.
My White mom used to pick sotton in Missouri in the late 40's...Are liberals really stupid enough to think blacks were the only ones who picked cotton?.....Oh....guess so! Its time we all started ignoring liberals. Let them live in their own little PC world....We'll live in the real world
I just read what poster Thomas K. wrote.....My analysis....Thomas K.= MORON
Truly an over reaction on Julia Reed's use of a very common saying heard through out the midwest and south. The overly sensitive should bear in mind, white people also picked cotton.
we need to draw a line between what does and doesn't consitute a racial slur, and we need to draw it here.
As a modern southenern I don't have issues with "cotton picking mind" as far as I'm concerned it's an antique cliche;I don't read racial into it the cliche. Why not google cotton picking mind and find what it really means before fringe progressives jump to hasty conclusions.
I remember hearing that on Bugs Bunny when I was a kid. I always thought it was just "an expression" and never thought about where it came from or what it might refer to.
Obviously it _could_ be considered racist. If most of the people who picked cotton were blacks, then "out of your cotton-pickin mind" _could_ be taken to mean "out of your black mind."
But that's very different from saying that Reed intended it as a racial slur, was even aware of any possible racial overtones, or is a racist. That would be quite a stretch.
"REPUBLICANS ARE RASCISTS BECUASE THEY ARE ALL CHRISTIAN BIGGOTS" @ 6:42 pm, that's spelled 'bigots' not 'biggots,' and 'racists' not 'rascists.'
Re Cotton picking: African-Americans weren't paid for their labor; Whites were paid. African-Americans were the personal property of others like a horse or a chair; Whites were full citizens and not enslaved to anyone - unless, of course if they were indentured servants. Some African-Americans were able to buy their freedom, some Whites were their benefactors who paid for them to be free. Just saying.
Compliments of Urban Dictionary:
cotton-picking: A reference to slavery. Used as an adjective.
You must be out of your cotton-picking mind.
Sort of like, "put your clothes on, you're scarin' my mule"
Of course it's racist. If one can not understand the pain felt by those whose great, great grandparents picked cotton as slaves, like having a Polish last name in the 1960s, what horrible scars that last forever they make.
The libs get nuttier all the time. I was raised in PA, never saw a cotton ball and heard the expression and may have used it. Libs will do anything to cause controversy. As for the Polish person--you were not the only one called names. Get over it.
We have enough troubles without everyone being offended by nothing. Most of this is caused by ignorance. A Yale or Harvard degree does not guarantee that you know anything useful. My genius neighbor almost burned his house down trying to get rid of a nest of bees. He could not drive a car. Of course I know the DC crowd has "people" who do those things. Talk about elitists. Don't believe them when they say they are working for you. These Marxists are looking for a utopia where they will be the head honchos and you peasants will work for them. In Russia Stalin and his pals had their villas in the country while old women in drab clothes swept Moscow streets with brooms. They had only one store called G.U.M. which Wal-Mart reminds me of. Sorry about that sentence. You really have something to look forward to you peasants. LOL
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