The cotton is flying on social media after a black businesswoman in Texas took offense at seeing fake bolls of the textile plant used as vase decorations at a Hobby Lobby store.
“This decor is WRONG on SO many levels,” Daniell Rider of Killeen posted on Facebook on Thursday. “There is nothing decorative about raw cotton... A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves. A little sensitivity goes a long way. PLEASE REMOVE THIS ‘decor’.”