Should I Be Pickin' Cotton?

Robert Kennedy was infinitely wise. When asked in 1968 if America would ever elect a black president; he said it would take about forty years.
The Attorney General was somewhat naive, however, when it came to the levels of hatred and
contempt able to be unleashed by the entreched racism of the southern states of the United States
of America, at a moment's notice.
On one of his visits south, he was in the home of a black man, asking the man why the nine-year-old
in the home couldn't stand. The boy was too weak. His family had no food.
When Atty.Gen. Kennedy asked southern officials why such things were tolerated, they told him
it was because black people were no longer hired to pick cotton, or do much of any other sort of
work for that matter.
Again, he asked why that was.
Because, they answered him, it's the way we get even for the civil rights laws.
So Robert Kennedy went back to D.C. and he ensured there would be food stamps, and that they
would be tied to farm bill subsidies. The south had been getting these subsidies since the civil war.