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?
Thats right.
Apparently, its because people in some cultures dont 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 Superintendents 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 Gutierrezs sandwich-sensitivity philosophy here.
Next time youre 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 youve been made aware of the evil of PB&J, theres 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.
I guess it ok to eat 3 dozen donuts as a morning snack.
The school was built and run by American tax dollars, is located on an American street in an American city, in an American county, in an American state in.... drum roll.... America. Last I heard, although it's changing daily, we're free to eat p&j sandwiches if we want in America. Don't like? Principal Gutierrez is free to exit out on the southern border.
I made some strawberry jelly and a p&j sandwich sounds preety good right now. Excuse me while I head into the kitchen and make one on some racist WHITE bread.
LOL @ these fools.
I have white privilege, I like it and I am going to keep it. I also have a couple of leftover biscuits and I plan to cover them with Peanut Butter. Of course, while I snack on them, I will quietly think of the man who gets credit for coming up with the idea of Peanut Butter . some Black guy.
I have always LOVED Peanut butter and I have put peanut butter on just about anything. I love peanut butter on sweet onion, dill pickles, bananas just about everything. However, I still must be a racist, because I have NEVER put peanut butter on fried chicken or watermelon. Hmmm I might try it on watermelon .maybe even cold fried chicken—then I won’t be a racist.
I think I should be offered pork in muzzie countries so that they can be more culturally attuned to my needs and not offend me.
Just because no one in those cultures was clever enough to invent a sandwich is no reason to disrespect sandwiches.
What if I promise not to let that racist vanilla ice cream cross my lips and eat only chocolate for the next month, can I get my Metrosexual Sensitivity badge back?
This effing principle and the Portland school system are effing crazy. Soon we will not have basball or football but
tribal games instead where the losers get circumcized on the spot.
BRING BACK THE INNOCUOUS PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH.......NOW!
Yum, this p&j sandwich is hitting the spot. Even more tasty knowing it would tick off that idiot principal.
If Gutierrez was living in one of those culturally enlightened countries she esteems so much, her fat ass would be parked at home, wrapped in a burka & enjoying her daily STFU sammich.
Makes PB&J in the USA sound pretty good in comparison.
Looks more lik a tranny to me.
Looks more like a tranny to me.
The female latino Jay Leno.
“Portlandia”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErRHJlE4PGI#action=share
the struggle of ordering chicken at a restaurant.
Well then you stick a sandwich in front of them and tell them they can't leave until they eat it. You tell them that in America, we eat sandwiches, and so they need to become sensitized to the American culture. You tell them that we will not put up with their narrow-minded Somali or Hispanic racism here, and that it is not okay for them to discriminate against their new country by refusing sandwiches.
What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?
TFB
I don’t recall any law that said peanut butter and jelly had to be on American sliced bread. Any bread that holds those two items together is just peachy keen.
Isn’t saying “ALL Hispanic children eat torta.” racist? I thought painting all people of a certain race with the same brush was the definition of racism. Like “white privilege”.
the sandwhich was invented by an white guy, the Earl of Sandwich, so yes, it’s racist just because.
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