6227: Bound And Gagged.

Tying up the news in a MultiCultClassics Monologue…

• A New York seventh-grade teacher ignited controversy during a social studies lesson on slavery by binding the hands and feet of two Black students to simulate the real experience. One student’s mother and the local chapter of the NAACP protested the matter. So far, it appears that the teacher has not been reprimanded. “I think the teacher should have gotten some discipline,” argued the student’s mother. Or maybe this is turning out to be a completely accurate history lesson.

• 3M announced plans to cut 1,800 jobs in the last quarter—unless there is a dramatic rise in teachers needing tape to bind the hands and feet of Black students for history lessons.

• Around 200 laid-off employees refused to leave the factory of former employer Republic Windows & Doors, demanding that they receive vacation and severance pay owed to them. Looks like there are few windows of opportunity and the doors are closing on them.