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Title: Portland school sees racism in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
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Examiner
URL Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/por ... ut-butter-and-jelly-sandwiches
Published: Sep 10, 2012
Author: Joe Newby
Post Date: 2012-09-11 14:55:42 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 270
Comments: 17
In an effort to combat perceived discrimination, one Portland school seems to have gone off the deep end by suggesting peanut butter and jelly sandwiches carry racist connotations, Twitchy reported Monday. According to the Portland Tribune, Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School, "picks up on the subtle language of racism" on a daily basis. "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.” "Insert flabbergasted face," the Twitchy staff wrote. One person asked on Twitter: "[W]hat's the verdict on grilled cheese? Racist? Sexist?" "The food at my kids' schools hates everyone," tweeted Melissa Clouthier. With the suggestion that a sandwich is racist, Twitchy said the discussion on race "has moved beyond slack-jawed incredulity into total self-parody territory." "What is racist about a child’s lunch, one might ask? Peanut butter and jelly, of course! You racists probably even use black currant jelly sometimes. On white bread," Twitchy added. 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. One commenter at the Tribune observed that the phrase "as American as apple pie" could also be seen as racist if "people of color don't eat it." "Guess what? When everything is racist, then nothing actually is," Twitchy said. Poster Comment: White privilege: do you have it??
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Next she should be introduced to a program called unemployment. She's lacking in critical thinking skills and too stupid to be employed in the field of education. Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT! No, where can I get some? geeze, if not for these racist peanutbutter n jelly sandwiches I'ld be getting damn hungry living my priveleged lifestyle here. There is always the eggs I eat plenty of too, damit, racist too with their white shells .... hmmm guess to be totally PC, I could start buying the ones with brown shells? Unbelievable. Having your head up your ass doesn't do much for you distance vision, does it? At what point are people going to put the Jews on a boat and send them away from America with strict instructions to never return?
God is always good!
I don't eat dogs, does that make dogs racist?
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
I attended public school many decades ago. I do recall that the cafeteria cuisine prepared many of us for what we would get inside a prison, which, I assume, meant comforting nostalgia for so many of my classmates.
If they don't like the food here, get the fuck out and go back to whatever paradise they came from.
I guess it depends on if you don't eat white dogs or don't eat black dogs. I'm pretty sure you shouldn't pursue this any further. Trust me. Honest. Geez, Dakmar. You have such narrow horizons. Eat a pug for peace!
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
A little Lousiana Hot Sauce goes a long way with canine.
Yeah, he's a weirdo, but I think all people from HoosierHickistan are. Wait a minute... Dammit! These threads always make me hungry. Not if it's a half-black dog eaten by a half-black potus. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Line-stepper!! Hehehe.... 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.
Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
White privilege: do you have it??
Only dead fish go with the flow
~ the truth will set ya free, but only after it pisses ya off
~my place to rant
#3. To: X-15 (#0)
#4. To: X-15 (#0)
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
#6. To: X-15 (#0)
#7. To: X-15 (#0)
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#8. To: Dakmar (#5)
I don't eat dogs, does that make dogs racist?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#9. To: Dakmar (#5)
I don't eat dogs, does that make dogs racist?
#10. To: randge (#9)
#11. To: Dakmar (#10)
#12. To: randge, Dakmar (#9)
Geez, Dakmar. You have such narrow horizons.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#13. To: Dakmar (#10)
Eat a pug for peace!
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#14. To: Dakmar (#5)
I don't eat dogs, does that make dogs racist?
#15. To: Lod (#14)
-Alex Kurtagic
#16. To: X-15 (#0)
Really? I see Jesus and May in mine! Praise the Lord! Portland school sees racism in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown
I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT!
Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#17. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#16)
Really? I see Jesus and May in mine! Praise the Lord! You had better throw down some raisins on that PBJ in the name of "diversity"..... Portland school sees racism in peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
-Alex Kurtagic
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