A white teacher in Rochester, NY, is under fire for allegedly telling his class of mostly black seventh-graders to pick seeds out of cotton and put on shackles during social studies lessons about slavery.Patrick Rausch allegedly taught the lesson about slavery and how cotton is processed at the School of the Arts last Tuesday, WXXI News reported.“He gave the whole class cotton and we were made to pick out the cotton seeds. He said, ‘Better clean it right, boy,’” student Jahmiere O’Neal told the outlet.
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