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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official
http://www.thecollegefix.com ^ | November 21, 2013 | by Nathan Harden - Fix Editor

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: food; lunch; pbj; peanutbutterandjelly; racism; racist; school
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if any parent has the balls to challenge this idiot publicly?


81 posted on 11/21/2013 12:21:04 PM PST by brooklyn dave
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To: Farnsworth

Peanut Butter was invented by a black guy...................


82 posted on 11/21/2013 12:22:48 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: Red Badger

No. It was not.


83 posted on 11/21/2013 12:33:36 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Red Badger

Contrary to some opinion stand up comedy is very much alive and well in the U.S. of A.


84 posted on 11/21/2013 12:36:34 PM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: Red Badger; Old Sarge

I don’t eat Lutefisk; does that make me racist against Norwegians?

Well, it *is* Oregon, ..... again.


85 posted on 11/21/2013 12:39:45 PM PST by LucyT (~ If you're NOT paranoid, you don't know what's going on. ~)
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To: Red Badger

Holy crap! A peanut butter sandwich is interracial! Shouldn’t that make the left happy??


86 posted on 11/21/2013 12:42:01 PM PST by Farnsworth (Now playing in America: "Stupid is the new normal")
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To: Farnsworth

The Left is NEVER happy.............That is the ONE THING you can ALWAYS count on................


87 posted on 11/21/2013 12:46:15 PM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: chessplayer

I always try to be a lady but if anyone ever threw the “white privilege” nonsense at me I’d spit in their face.

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88 posted on 11/21/2013 12:50:38 PM PST by Mears
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To: Red Badger
Le refuto de esta manera:


89 posted on 11/21/2013 1:05:28 PM PST by x
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To: Red Badger

But....but John Kerry, who served in Viet Nam(not sure which side), said his “Man Servant” always made peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches for him and he loves them!


90 posted on 11/21/2013 1:13:09 PM PST by Mark (DONATE to FR Now!)
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To: Red Badger

So in order to devolve to the concept of the lowest common denominator, this totally vegetarian food combination is considered offensive to some minority. At this rate our “e puribus unum” country will itself devolve into ethnic neighborhoods of corrosive exclusives. Take this idiot school official, dress her in a burka and drop her into Damascus to discuss the benefits of cultural identity!


91 posted on 11/21/2013 1:14:32 PM PST by SES1066 (To expect courteous government is insanity!)
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To: PATRIOT1876
Unless these idiot "educators" plan on sending these children back to whatever country they came from when they graduate (to eat a torta, of course) they should show the kids how things are done here in the US.

ps. Spell-check doesn't like the word "torta". Neither do I.
92 posted on 11/21/2013 1:14:39 PM PST by Shannon
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From American excellence to this... the deranged have way too much influence.


93 posted on 11/21/2013 1:17:13 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Red Badger
Peanut Butter was invented by a black guy...................

Named for the first US President, slave holder or not!

94 posted on 11/21/2013 1:19:58 PM PST by SES1066 (To expect courteous government is insanity!)
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To: Red Badger

Every type of food is insensitive. The obvious solution is to starve yourself to death in order to honor all cultures.


95 posted on 11/21/2013 1:26:22 PM PST by vpintheak (Thankful to be God blessed & chosen!)
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To: Red Badger

So if a Mexican mentions tamales, that’s racist?


96 posted on 11/21/2013 1:52:45 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: Red Badger

I’m heading to the kitchen to make the most racist sandwich EVER! PB & Mayo on white bread. Try it, you’ll like it.


97 posted on 11/21/2013 1:55:14 PM PST by Sparky21555 (The buck stops over there.)
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To: Red Badger

OMG! ...couldn’t get past
the first paragraph-—too
much cultural BS

kg/nancy


98 posted on 11/21/2013 1:58:18 PM PST by krunkygirl (force multiplier in effect...)
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To: Paladin2

Might as well tear out the flush tiolets.


99 posted on 11/21/2013 2:33:50 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: gundog

Furgit the TP and go muzzie....


100 posted on 11/21/2013 2:36:11 PM PST by Paladin2
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