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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 119388 09-11-2012 09:55 PM

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.

http://www.examiner.com/article/portland...sandwiches

**It's Hot Here**

Holy crap...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 119388 09-11-2012 10:01 PM

Welcome to Zionist America where diversity is not our strength.

**Yoyodyne**

“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.”

Um if they are in a school in the US aren't they Americans? I suppose they could be illegal immigrants though......

**Sweet Smoke**

WTF?

**It's Hot Here**

Yoyodyne Wrote:

“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.”

Um if they are in a school in the US aren't they Americans? I suppose they could be illegal immigrants though......

Next time I'm in Puerto Penasco and I order a burrito, I'm going to request it on Wonder Bread...then I'll sue if I don't get what I want...boohoo

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 118942 09-11-2012 10:17 PM

I dont get how a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is racist, its a f*cking sandwich. With different colored foods making it up maybe but should all foods eaten together be one color? Think someone had too much time on their hands. And "the food at my kids school hates everyone", hope that was sarcasm.

**Strategos**

Just tell the kids to eat their goddamned peanut butter jelly sandwiches and shut the hell up.

Or don't eat but give the taxpayers a refund for funding their free meals.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 118942 09-11-2012 10:19 PM

Yoyodyne Wrote:

“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.”

Um if they are in a school in the US aren't they Americans? I suppose they could be illegal immigrants though......

So those foreign students dont eat peanut butter and jelly sandwichs, so everyone shouldnt? If you eat a food thats different from some foreign country, youre racist..

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 119388 09-11-2012 10:21 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Yoyodyne Wrote:
“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.”

Um if they are in a school in the US aren't they Americans? I suppose they could be illegal immigrants though......

So those foreign students dont eat peanut butter and jelly sandwichs, so everyone shouldnt? If you eat a food thats different from some foreign country, youre racist..

Those foreign student need to go back home. Racist problems solved.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 120239 09-11-2012 10:22 PM

$389 Billion per year for this horseshit.
White people are gobsmacked, dazed,
and will soon be wondering what country
their US has turned into.

**Mike** lop guest User ID: 105339 09-11-2012 10:25 PM

Good f*cking God.... maybe when Macdonald wrote The Turner Diaries he was really onto something... (as in with using racism as a tool to manipulate and control society).

**Tyche Unleashed**

Yoyodyne Wrote:

“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.”

Um if they are in a school in the US aren't they Americans? I suppose they could be illegal immigrants though......

I've known a lot of mexican kids that eat PBJ sandwiches.
Maybe in their country they don't but when they come here,they tend to do as the other children and discover so many things.Diversity should be a two way street but it isn't.

**Geogal** · (This post was last modified: 09-11-2012 10:36 PM by Geogal.)

LoP Guest Wrote:

I dont get how a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is racist, its a f*cking sandwich. With different colored foods making it up maybe but should all foods eaten together be one color? Think someone had too much time on their hands. And "the food at my kids school hates everyone", hope that was sarcasm.

I interpreted the latter to mean, it's not good for you or can cause indigestion, something to that effect... think of how someones tummy feels when they say "that thing I ate hates me..."

In the idea of foods being racist... well, peanut butter is used in different countries in different foods, think Thailand. Jelly is a preserve... I assume pretty much every country has preserves of one sort or another... and bread is similar to any other medium in any other country to bring food to your mouth cleanly without the use of utensils... or so I see it.

Maybe the focus is al wrong, but instead of calling food racist and saying it's a no-no... if it's not something others have had or normally have, why not make it a thing about sharing cultures? For many I know who come to this country, it is still about how can they be a bit American, in some ways, and how can they maintain their own identities in others.

Sharing is something that the schools are forgetting to focus on.

**Dial-up** · (This post was last modified: 09-11-2012 10:30 PM by Dial-up.)

I saw Jesus in my PBJ sandwich the other day. Hmmmm....