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Portland Principal Says Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches are Racist
College Insurrection ^ | 12/7/2013 | Leslie Eastman

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)


TOPICS: Education; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; illegalimmigration; lifeamongthekufir; oregon; pbj; portland; portlandia
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To: markomalley

Is a tube steak on a hot dog bun gay bashing? Just askin’.


21 posted on 12/07/2013 8:50:59 AM PST by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: markomalley

And who invented peanut butter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver


22 posted on 12/07/2013 8:51:08 AM PST by Redmen4ever
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To: markomalley

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?


23 posted on 12/07/2013 8:57:34 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: markomalley

” 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?


24 posted on 12/07/2013 9:00:18 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: JPG

Doesn’t come close to “Verrre’ Nice” ...


25 posted on 12/07/2013 9:00:56 AM PST by mikrofon (Liberals are PITA)
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To: JPG
Dr. Verenice Gutierrez
vgutierr@pps.net or 503-916-6369
26 posted on 12/07/2013 9:01:45 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: markomalley

Old story but worth mentioning again.


27 posted on 12/07/2013 9:02:23 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: markomalley

Racist peanut butter saves millions of Somalians from starvation.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20733-peanut-butter-to-the-rescue-in-somalia-famine.html


28 posted on 12/07/2013 9:02:27 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: oh8eleven

Tick Tick Tick, the clock is getting ready to strike midnight on REV II.


29 posted on 12/07/2013 9:03:30 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: markomalley

“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.


30 posted on 12/07/2013 9:03:57 AM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: markomalley

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.


31 posted on 12/07/2013 9:05:28 AM PST by sport
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To: markomalley

He needs a back alley blanket party.


32 posted on 12/07/2013 9:06:49 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: markomalley
Ya know what beats a PB&J sandwich as racist? Ninety five percent of Blacks voting for 0bama.

5.56mm

33 posted on 12/07/2013 9:06:51 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: markomalley

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!


34 posted on 12/07/2013 9:11:19 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: SIDENET

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.


35 posted on 12/07/2013 9:13:02 AM PST by driftless2
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To: faucetman

“gal’s”


36 posted on 12/07/2013 9:16:48 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: markomalley
Is white bread more racist than whole wheat?

"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

37 posted on 12/07/2013 9:16:55 AM PST by niteowl77 (Establishment Republicans possess fewer guts than the last gnat that hit the windshield of your car.)
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To: markomalley

38 posted on 12/07/2013 9:17:06 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: markomalley
I suppose my love of braunschweiger sandwiches makes me a Nazi.
39 posted on 12/07/2013 9:18:25 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: Jonty30

“When the majority of parents start learning the necessity of fighting to remove these incompetents ......”

unh, unh, not so fast, unions and tenure.


40 posted on 12/07/2013 9:19:35 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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