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Go See Your Mother
I like to argue all night and sleep all day, but writing is allegedly more respectable. A mulatto refugee from the South, I’m on leave from New York City, on Special Assignment in Washington. I write musings, opinions, rants, wishes, mournings for the living, the dead, and the unborn. By bright day for rice and beans, I’m a consigliere in crisis communications. By black night for fun and freedom, I throw shade on white supremacy and other fugitives on the run. Also, President of the National Association of Surly Negroes. And I’d like to speak to the manager now.
The Meaning of “High Cotton”
The term “High Cotton" was born in the antebellum South when it meant that the crops were good and the prices were, too. Through the centuries, the term has been generalized to mean one is doing well or is successful. To celebrate some good fortune, you might say: “We’re in High Cotton now.” In Trump’s America, the term is clearly aspirational.