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.
Leave us not forget waht Eastern Europeans like to eat.
What about haggis or Cranachan or Skirlie...
.....or any number of ethnic foods that we don't eat in America because...
WE'RE IN AMERICA!
If you like your boiled fogs or ground glass and pig hooves, go back to your native country. Eat them at home. If you don't like what's on the menu because it's too American, then why did you come here?
It's so far beyond stupid GPS can't find it
I wasn’t aware that Somalis ate anything.
Would Hispanic children be happy eating crickets(chipolinas), sangre(scrambled cow blood), fried tripe(the stomach of a cow/goat) or maybe some fried tongue.....wait....wait, how about Paella?
Maybe some Haggas?
I could go on.
*flips table*
I’ve had enough. This is beyond retarded.
By that definition then saying torta or pita is racist if there are any American children in the class who don't eat pita.
Gutierrez must spend a lot of time doing things other than running a school...
What about the Cubans...have you ever had a hardy hefty Cuban Sandwich, sooooooooo good!
Cubans must be very racist.
certain people can become multimillionaire basketball or football players, get huge contracts for violent racist sexist rap crap, or become rich thru silly nonsense talk shows or become president with a sandbag media, and yet, and yet, you're still a racist unless you allow complete unfettered access to white women.....
This guy is deranged.
He’s unfit to be around children. After all, isn’t it insensitive of him to “teach” children? Who does he think he is? It’s only fair that the adults and children share their experiences in an inclusive and fair environment, not one that encourages him to exploit his age privilege.
He needs intensive training that focuses on systematic ageism. He needs to engage in Courageous Conversation with these age disadvantaged children. What kind of hate filled monster is this adult calling himself “teacher”
PB&J is one of THE BEST food groups EVER! I know. I’ve put down my share, and other’s share, of the delicacy. That’s just plain ludicrous to equate the great PB&J sandwich with racism. That takes the cake.
Reminds me what’s for lunch tomorrow.
people, try to home school your kids or send to Catholic school....the old fashioned kind........
A pita or tortilla is racist!
“OECD Education Rankings – 2013 Update”
http://ourtimes.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/oecd-education-rankings/
America waaay down the list in reading, math, and science. Gee, I wonder why.
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