By Chelsea Schilling. Who knew! Those fluffy white cotton balls on display in your favorite floral arrangement or in your bathroom cabinet?

They just might be r-a-a-a-c-i-s-t!

At least some people in Texas and Tennessee apparently think so.

On Sept. 14, Daniell Rider, a black woman from Killeen, Texas, ripped into the Hobby Lobby craft chain when she spotted raw cotton on its shelves.

“This decor is WRONG on SO many levels,” Rider said in a post on Hobby Lobby’s Facebook page. “There is nothing decorative about raw cotton … A commodity which was gained at the expense of African-American slaves.” (Read more from “Common Household Item Is Now Considered ‘Racist'” HERE) http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/racist-america-goes-bonkers-over-cotton-balls/

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Texas Woman Claims Hobby Lobby’s Cotton Stalks Are Racist, Defenders Push Back

By Fernando Alfonso III. [Daniell] Rider’s comment, and photo of the cotton, inspired thousands of comments on other Hobby Lobby Facebook posts, many of which were from people defending the store.

“People are too sensitive,” Pam Asbridge Reeder commented Saturday afternoon. “My mother picked cotton in Alabama as a young child. We are white as rice !! Get over yourself Daniell Rider. If it wasn’t for that cotton, you might just be stuck in Africa without the opportunities or privileges you have as an American. Did you EVER think about that? Not all slave owners were bad just as not all whites are bad. Some slave owners actually deeded land and homes to slaves and their families.”

Hobby Lobby is still selling the cotton stems on its website, where they have been marked down from 29.99 to $15. (Read more from “Texas Woman Claims Hobby Lobby’s Cotton Stalks Are Racist, Facebook Post Goes Viral” HERE) https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-woman-claims-hobby-lobbys-cotton-stalks-