{"id":11874,"date":"2013-11-21T17:10:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11874"},"modified":"2013-11-21T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T17:10:42","slug":"peanut-butter-and-jelly-sandwich-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11874","title":{"rendered":"‘Peanut butter and jelly sandwich is racist’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pbj\"<\/a>Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Apparently, it\u2019s because people in some cultures don\u2019t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune:<\/p>\n

\u201cTake the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year,\u201d the Tribune said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?\u201d Gutierrez asked. \u201cAnother way would be to say: \u2018Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?\u2019 Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026The Tribune noted that the school started the new year with \u201cintensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives,\u201d to help educators understand their own \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d in order to \u201cchange their teaching practices to boost minority students\u2019 performance.\u201d”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 \u2014 to examine a news article and discuss the \u2018white privilege\u2019 it conveys,\u201d the Tribune added.<\/p>\n

Gutierrez completed a week-long seminar called \u201cCoaching for Educational Equity,\u201d a program the Tribune says focuses \u201con race and how it affects life.\u201d She also serves on an administrative committee that focuses on systematic racism.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur focus school and our Superintendent\u2019s 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,\u201d she said in a letter to staff.<\/p>\n

Next time you\u2019re in the bread aisle at the grocery store, you may want to think twice. Sensitive liberal educators are now recommending the \u201ctorta\u201d or the \u201cpita\u201d as a more culturally inclusive alternative.<\/p>\n

Now that you\u2019ve been made aware of the evil of PB&J, there\u2019s only one question left to answer: Is white bread more racist than whole wheat? -thecollegefix.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist? That\u2019s right. Apparently, it\u2019s because people in some cultures don\u2019t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune: \u201cTake the peanut butter sandwich, … Continue reading “‘Peanut butter and jelly sandwich is racist’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[7514,7512,157,7513],"class_list":["post-11874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-bread","tag-pbj","tag-racism","tag-sandwich"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/pbj.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11876,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions\/11876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}