3.failure to recognize that-regardless of the realities that White people also picked cotton- and regardless of the fact that enslaved African Americans also worked in tobacco plantations and did other manual labor, skilled labor, and artistic work-in the United States "picking cotton" is shorthand for African American slavery.
Therefore, American folk songs about picking cotton are going to be considered songs about African American slavery.
And regardless of whether a Black person wrote or popularized these songs, in the early years of the 21st century, uptempo songs about picking cotton are going to be considered disrespectful of enslaved Black people.