Posted on 11/21/2013 11:11:00 AM PST by Red Badger
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 and 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.
You can read more about principal Gutierrez’s sandwich-sensitivity philosophy here.
Next time you’re in the bread aisle at the grocery store, you may want to think twice. Sensitive liberal educators are now recommending the “torta” or the “pita” as a more culturally inclusive alternative.
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?
Nathan Harden is editor of The College Fix and author of the book SEX & GOD AT YALE: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad.
Can one even get vanilla ice cream in NOLA?
This is bizarro land. When I was in grade school Rosa would sit next to me at times during lunch. She was hot! She did not have a problem with my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, she liked them and the burritos she brought were great.
From "The Jerk":
Mother, dear, ain't we forgetting something?
No, I'm not. Today is Navin's birthday.
Happy birthday!
It's Navin's birthday!
And I cooked you up your favorite meal. Tuna fish salad on white bread with mayonnaise...a Tab and a couple of Twinkies.
- Here, darling.
- Mom, thanks.
You're gonna like that shit, man.
Hmmmm...I wonder why they left their country and came to the US.
Could it be that the USA is the greatest country in the world and their country SUCKS?!
They would've stayed in their country if it was better.
Let them learn our ways.
Let them assimilate.
We must be doing something right or they would've have left!
George Washington Carver was one of the most interesting Americans ever!
So, they are saying that it's racist to eat his food.
We are supposed to eat food from other countries, but not food that is popular here?!?
I'm glad that I don't live in the Felini-esque nightmare that must go on inside the head of that “educator”.
It must be like Charles Manson and Charlie Sheen shouting at you during a bad acid trip and you can't quite make out all of what they are saying, understanding only the frightening bits.
Love it!
I can just imagine John Cleese in his Basil Fawlty voice going off exactly like this on a patron.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFMpySg_UrM
The first 1:20 is it.
Not only were the Aztecs using it in the 1500s, but Marcellus Gilmore Edson patented it when Carver was only 20 years old.
Apparently Marcellus Gilmore Edson B da MAN!
So...wiping your tail after a dump is racist because arabs don’t do it? Underarm deodorant is racist because the Europeans don’t use it? How stupid do you want to get with this?
*I can just imagine John Cleese in his Basil Fawlty voice going off exactly like this on a patron.*
Fawlty was hilarious!
Wait a minute. Wasn’t peanut butter invented by George Washington Carver?
CAN ANYBODY THINK OF ANYONE MISSING FROM THIS PICTURE?
I.E.
VERMONT’S BERNIE SANDERS....
MINN’S ALFRANKEN...
NEXT?
That’s what we were taught in school................but history has a way of changing..................
The only way the PBJ could be remotely considered racist is to throw a pork chop on it.
This is comical. What will they think of next?
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