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.
WE have regressed to the times before sliced bread.
oh the joys of being ‘culturally sensitive’. ... time to flood that school with PB&J sammies
Just because someone is sooooo incredibly stooooopid to make a statement like that(I won’t even bother reading the aritcle)
Must be a slow news day. By that token chocolate chocolate chip ice cream ought to be illegal.
Because everyone knows sweetened preserved fruit is the wihte devil’s food.
*don’t make me do this /s
If pb&j, or sandwiches in general are racist, then I’m every Klan member who ever lived rolled into one.
“…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.
This country is sooo screwed.
I’m so tired of these racist sandwiches.
What did THIS one say?
Que? Como?
WHAT!?!?!?
Insanity has hit a new level.
Surely this is a joke of some sort.
If this isn't from the Onion or MAD magazine or one of the other satire publications like TIME or Newsweak, it is hard to believe or even imagine that someone with enough brainpower to utter words is so dense as to speak such nonsense!
Idiocracy has come and gone and we're sinking deeper into the quicksand.
This should be instructive for anyone who believes that minorities have any interest at all in assimillation.
” in order to “change their teaching practices to boost minority students’ performance.”
Code for giving failing students passing grades.
People who think like this should have been run out of the education system a genertion ago. However since evil conservatives are pro free speech, they were allowed to remain. Now they are running the schools and attempt to destroy anyone who disagrees with them.
Idiots are in charge. I should be able to eat my sandwich and call it whatever the heck I want to call it.
Seriously.
Special High Intensity Training ...
I just laugh at this crap now. It has gotten so ridiculous... its just comical at this point.
*“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.” * Insanity has hit a new level.”
It would be better if these 3rd worlders learn what a freaking sandwich is since they are fairly common in America. Instead they want teachers to waste time asking what kind of bug excrement they eat in their home countries.
“*“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” Gutierrez asked.”
The real question to be asked is what are the Effing Somali’s doing here in the first place? But this is Portland, Oregon, home of the displaced RAT liberals from New York and other points East.
dat be not raysis
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