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Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official

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#1 ·
Everyone go into their kitchen right now and throw it all out! lol Some pc people might just do that sadly. When you guys have kids I recommend you send them to private school, I doubt they spew nonsense like this.


"Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official
by Nathan Harden - Fix Editor on November 21, 2013


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.”

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.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15414/
 
#2 ·
The educator never said it was racist. The newspaper coined that one, to bait for clicks.

It seems reasonable that a multicultural school would use examples that reflect the home lives of all its students. These aren't bad suggestions, if you teach in a school whose families are increasingly first generation immigrant.

Do you make a habit of posting articles from fringe right scare blogs?
 
#9 ·
The educator never said it was racist. The newspaper coined that one, to bait for clicks.

It seems reasonable that a multicultural school would use examples that reflect the home lives of all its students. These aren't bad suggestions, if you teach in a school whose families are increasingly first generation immigrant.

Do you make a habit of posting articles from fringe right scare blogs?
Nope, I do a search for news and read whatever sound interesting. I agree its good to teach kids about everything but why would the school think something simple like a pb an j sandwich doesn't fit the mold or whatever?
 
#3 ·
The more we enable these whining pussies, the worse it's going to get. The whole idea of political correctness is ridiculous. We've moved forward a lot as a society in the last century, but PC is a scourge. It'll end up producing a generation of people who aren't able to deal with their own problems and emotions.
 
#27 ·
The challenge is to put the PB&J inside the fajita wrap. That would be impressive and inclusive all at the same time.

Now, are there certain degrees to which we are racist depending on what flavor of jelly we use? Sometimes I like strawberry, other days I'm a grape kind of guy, or some days it has to be raspberry.
 
#31 ·
It rather pisses me off when I hear stories about people from other cultures moving to a new culture and expecting them to change to their own culture. I'm a white dude from Alabama who moved to Hawai'i. It's not up to them to conform to me. It's up to me to find a way to live in my new environment.
 
#32 ·
For instance, I find it very annoying when people move in from other countries, for instance El Salvador, in this case(in my area), and refuse to learn English. Because they do not have to, they do not choose to assimilate to American culture at all, causing those working in the communities comprised of them to have to assimilate to the immigrants' culture.

I've also heard of this occurring in some sections of Brooklyn with many different groups of people.
 
#37 ·
I’ve never had more than a bite of a peanut butter & jelly sandwich in my life and sure never had one as a kid. We followed a sugar-restricted and mostly vegetarian diet in my home but, shockingly, I had no problem relating to a classroom example where someone eats a peanut butter & jelly sandwich.

Or I don’t think I did. Shit, if only my school have used five bean salad and carrot sticks as meal examples I might be an engineer today.
 
#42 ·
It's clearly racist to have a brown colored spread and a red colored spread enveloped by two slices of oppressive white bread.

For those that still claim that the color is just a cooincidence (like the black power ranger being black, yeah, just a cooincidence...) consider the following facts.

-The two most popular types of jelly are grAPE (a racial slur) and strawberry (as in Daryll Strawberry, a famous retired BLACK baseball player who is a known drug addict).

-Asians often use peanuts and butter in their cooking. Asians are also considered, in stereotype, to have pea-nuts, if you know what I mean.

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