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.””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.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15414/
Seems to me the school system is being run by idiots and political correctness run amok.
“Our focus school and our Superintendent’s mandate that we improve education for students of color, particularly Black and Brown boys”
So…that statement above isn’t racist, but using a a PB&J analogy is.
I think the administration of the public education system has become the last resort for morons who couldn’t cut it in any other field / major in college.
“She also serves on an administrative committee that focuses on systematic racism.”
serioussly, HER program IS systematic racism.
I sit on an administrative committee that focuses on systematic racism. If systematic racism were a thing of the past, there would be no need for me or my committee. How much do you want to bet that I will always report that systematic racism continues to be a problem?
I sit on an administrative committee that focuses on systematic racism. If I am able to report at the end of a 5 year period that systematic racism is a thing of the past, I will be paid a bonus of $1 million. How much do you want to bet that in year 5 you will get a report from me that says that systematic racism is no longer an issue?
I’d love to hear what “systematic racism” is and whether it’s really present in the organizations these incredibly politically correct committees and HR departments oversee or whether it’s actually an excuse to expand these groups. Sounds like a very bad thing: “systematic” “racism”, but without a real definition, it’s another misuse of language
If they don’t like PBJ sandwiches they can go back to Somalia . From their pictures in National Geographic magazine they look like they should be thankful eating ANYTHING, even dog food.