Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches are Racist now.

General General Discussion
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I normally don’t post things like this, but this one is just way out there.

I don’t deny that there is still a racism issue in this country. However this “White Privilege” and “Institutionalized racism” rhetoric is so far out there that it makes me cringe every time I hear it.

The real part of this one that pisses me off is that they claim it is racist because other cultures do not have things like sandwiches. So they have taken it to the point that simply because our culture is different that makes it racist.

“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.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/15414/
and the original.
http://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/114604-schools-beat-the-drum-for-equity

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im hispanic, i love pb&j’s !! (and the occasional brisket torta mmm). that statement is downright ridiculous.

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Typical anti-European indoctrination rhetoric from educational institutions and or academia that have been infiltrated by the left since the 50’s.

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The guilt is strong in the OPs post source…

Were doomed…

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The world’s greatest Superpower has now been turned into a HYPOCRO-CRACY via a Psy Op.

Truth has no agenda or temperature.

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I can fix this. Tortias and pitas are ****ing racist and exclusionary and I don’t want to hear any more about that hate based food. And teachers who promote such blatant racial biases should be fired and deported.

Swear to christ, it’s like only 2% of the population can see the glaring stupidity.

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So I take it “Taco Tuesday” is no more?

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What do you mean “racist now”? They were always racist. Anti-semitic and homophobic as well.

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And don’t dare mention Fried Chicken, popular in the South…

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Is it the writer’s opinion that PB&Js are superior to tortillas, and therefor only privileged whites can have them? That strikes me as significantly more racist than the sandwich itself.

Besides… this is just another classic example of confusing race with culture. Race - doesn’t exist. Culture - definitely exists, and some are “better” than others, I’m afraid.

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I am a gringo and I will eat tortas and anything in a tortilla. Wash it down with tamarind soda, Topo Chico or Horchata, too.

Pitas? Bring on the pita chips and hummus…yeah…I’ll eat that too.

LOL

-brickboy240

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Thank you. I now cannot get into Mensa since I lost some IQ points reading that incredible stupid article.

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I think you missed the point. The article I could care less about. It is the fact that teachers are being told this shit and asked to pass it on to their children that scares me.

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Yep, and guess how it mainly manifests itself these days?

Racism is a two-way (or three-way, or four-way) street. It does NOT only apply to whites. NEVER EVER allow someone to frame the debate when the word “racism” comes up. Stand your ground. Oh, and part of the problem is seeing the need to throw in an apologetic caveat like you did (nothing on you personally).

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Oh believe me, I have no problem calling out racism wherever I see it. And I see it just as much from minorities as I do from white males.

I didn’t put that in there as a Caveat, more of just a statement of fact and to frame the following sentence about white privilege and institutionalized racism. We all know racism exists. Sadly we even see it not this board (rarely). But that is individuals expressing their own hate or distrust. The real problem with the articles I put in the OP is that it only furthers the problem. The small minded people who are racist (on either side) see it as vindication for their views. It also leads to a while group of people becoming a culture of victims.

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They are worrying about Somali or Hispanic kids that MIGHT not eat a PBJ sammy?

I bet if you examine their test scores in that district, they have MUCH more pressing issues that what a student that makes up 1% of the sutudent population MIGHT or might not eat.

the stupidity of those running our schools is scary!

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/02/seattle-city-government-bans-racist-terms-like-citizen-and-brown-bag/

The brown bag those pb&js are taken are also racist.

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I’m eating a PB&J sammich right now.

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Exactly. Like how some my family immigrated from Poland. The ones that didnt likely ended up in one of Hitlers slave and death camps.

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Thanks to liberal West coast city municipal governments I’m learning so much, here I thought all these years that “Brown Bag” was an endearing term for a woman who had a banging body and a butter face. Who’d have known?!