Posted on 12/07/2013 8:25:53 AM PST by markomalley
A quintessentially American lunch item is the peanut butter & jelly sandwich. Yet, one principal has a unique perspective on this lunch staple.
Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?
That’s right.
Apparently, it’s because people in some cultures don’t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in an interview with the Portland Tribune:
“Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year,” the Tribune said.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” Gutierrez asked. “Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”
…The Tribune noted that the school started the new year with “intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives,” to help educators understand their own “white privilege,” in order to “change their teaching practices to boost minority students’ performance.””Last Wednesday, the first day of the school year for staff, for example, the first item of business for teachers at Scott School was to have a Courageous Conversation — to examine a news article and discuss the ‘white privilege’ it conveys,” the Tribune added.
Gutierrez completed a week-long seminar called “Coaching for Educational Equity,” a program the Tribune says focuses “on race and how it affects life.” She also serves on an administrative committee that focuses on systematic racism.
“Our focus school and our Superintendent’s mandate that we improve education for students of color, particularly Black and Brown boys, will provide us with many opportunities to use the protocols of Courageous Conversations in data teams, team meetings, staff meetings, and conversations amongst one another,” she said in a letter to staff.
…Now that you’ve been made aware of the evil of PB&J, there’s only one question left to answer: Is white bread more racist than whole wheat?
Read the original article:
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official (The College Fix)
Is a tube steak on a hot dog bun gay bashing? Just askin’.
It is real simple, Mexicans, Somali’s or where ever people come from that are now in America must adapt to America! It is a true mark of insanity to expect or demand that Americans change their culture to adapt to every other culture that immigrates to her shores. Insanity = liberalism and liberalism = insanity, why do we allow the insane access to our children?
” Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”
Maybe they eat “Dirt Cookies” (made from actual dirt), like they do in Somalia?
In very poor countries or areas, they eat “Garbage”, should we encourage our kids to eat garbage and dirt cookies?
Doesn’t come close to “Verrre’ Nice” ...
Old story but worth mentioning again.
Racist peanut butter saves millions of Somalians from starvation.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20733-peanut-butter-to-the-rescue-in-somalia-famine.html
Tick Tick Tick, the clock is getting ready to strike midnight on REV II.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students
Let them eat taco’s.
But don’t call it racist because they eat them.
This principal has a lack of Smarts.
According to some, everything else is racists, so why should not peanut butter and jelly sandwiches be? On a personal note, I don’t care what they say, and even less what they think.
He needs a back alley blanket party.
5.56mm
Because of this guy’s socialist views, he never considered leaving the majority as they are, and giving added attention to ALL those failing or needing additional help to succeed.
It’s probably easier to bring the succeeders down than to bring the losers up. Thus reaching parity, equality, and
“fairness”. Isn’t Socialism grand? NO!IT SUCKS!
ha, ha...exactly what I was thinking. Just imagine a conservative court finding this idiot guilty of exceptionable stupidity. First she gets a tremendous kick in her keister, then she gets fired.
“gal’s”
"Yes. Historically the descendant loaves of "manchet" bread have fed the oppressive Western ruling class and the racist bourgeoise middle class that attempts to emulate them. Although a black man did help to develop peanut butter, only an inherent cultural bigotry allows caucasians to continue spreading it over the white man's bread with a knife, itself the very symbol of the naked brutality they practice against anything darker, smoother, creamier and occasionally chunkier than their own pallid skin."
Mr. niteowl77
“When the majority of parents start learning the necessity of fighting to remove these incompetents ......”
unh, unh, not so fast, unions and tenure.
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