New York teacher investigated over allegations he made Black students pick cotton and wear shackles during slavery lessons, say reports

MSN ^ | 44/30/22 | Alia Shoiab

[mcenedo]

A white teacher in Rochester, New York, is being investigated over allegations that he made Black students pick cotton and wear handcuffs during lessons about slavery.

[Sacajaweau]

it implies that the other half is white...but whites are 25%.

[Sacajaweau]

The cotton gin was invented in 1793.

[Repeal The 17th]

The cotton gin did not pick cotton...

[Sacajaweau]

You’re quite right.

[nomorelurker]

“The cotton gin was invented in 1793.”

It was what moved cotton from a niche crop to a major commodity.

Still needed a lot of manual labor to pick the cotton.
Improvements in Ginning allowed for bolls to be pulled an not picked.
I have pulled bolls but never picked cotton.

[Mark was here]

I hope the kids learned to “jump down and turn around”.

[higgmeister]

“He gave the whole class cotton, and we were made to pick out the cotton seeds.”

Idiot teacher, that's not what picking cotton means.

That's carding cotton.   The mechanical way of picking seeds out of raw cotton was the Cotton Gin

A modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794.

Picking cotton involved bending down as you walked in a crouch along a row of plants in the field and literally ripped the cotton boll from the pod with a twisting hand motion.

Forty to forty five pounds of cotton would probably be about all you could put in this size sack (6 feet). Sacks were available in 6 foot, 7 1/2 and 9 foot lengths.

No school teacher could ever come close to replicating the experience for students.

My grandfather was a poor sharecropper and my Dad and my spinster Aunts picked cotton as children with the rest of the family.

"PICKIN' COTTON"

[higgmeister]

One of the big items that came up in the past was a picture of Little black children on one of the Marquees on our Sea Breeze carousol. The Black Watch Board removed it as being offensive and replaced it with a Black Panther. Do they have an agenda?? Ya think??

Wow!   All that you typed went completely over my head.   I googled it and found you are complaining about a picture in an amusement park ride.   I suppose it was a big item for your neck of the woods.

[SantosLHalper]

My mother also picked cotton...and peaches, and tobacco.
She probably did more manual labor before her 12th birthday than most kids today will do in a lifetime.

[gitmo]

I’ve picked cotton and I’ve handed tobacco.

Does cotton grow in New York?

[higgmeister]

No doubt that she did.

[higgmeister]

And you typing “handed tobacco” is proof you actually did.

[gitmo]

LOL

[SantosLHalper]

Don’t know. But the soil seems prime to grow morons.