Bronx Teacher Distasteful Black History Lesson, Steps on Black Student

A New York City middle school teacher sparked outrage after she singled out black students and told them to lie face-down on the classroom floor, during her so called "history lesson" on slavery in America at a middle school in the Bronx. 

Students and a staff member at a middle school in the Bronx told the New York Daily News that social studies teacher Patricia Cummings was giving a lesson to several 7th-grade classes about the Middle Passage, the harrowing journey of millions of Africans who were kidnapped and shipped to America as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

Cummings, who is reportedly white, allegedly had black students lie on the floor. At one point, the New York Daily News reports, she allegedly stepped on the back of at least one of the students and said, "How does it feel? See how it feels to be a slave?"

Cummings has since been reassigned away from students and an investigation into the alleged incident is underway, according to New York City Department of Education spokesperson Toya Holness.

"While the investigation has not been completed, these are deeply disturbing allegations, and the alleged behavior has no place in our schools or in society. She has been reassigned away from students and we're providing the school with additional supports," Holness told ABC News in a statement Saturday.

How come this teacher haven't been fired and charged with assault?  You do not step on anyone child, let alone ask them how does it feel to be a slave, especially given the high level of racism taking place in America right now. I do not believe this was a lesson about history, it was just another opportunity for a white supremacist to express her hatred towards Blacks.