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I stuffed my ears with bits of cotton to keep out the evil voices.

Bland got attention in 2020 with his statement that the Black community had gone from “from picking cotton to picking presidents,” and he remains steadfast in his determination to replicate that success.

Willie Ingram picked everything from cotton to okra during his 51 years in the state penitentiary, better known as Angola.

The only black man to ever serve in both chambers of Congress, Mr Scott is the grandson of a cotton field worker and the son of a single mother, and he has often spoken of how his family rose "from cotton to Congress" in a lifetime.

He added that “Falsehoods circulated on the internet are not ‘reports,’” prompting Mr. Cotton to retort that The New York Times “just described its own ‘newsroom.’”