The Organic PrepperYou know, people have had about enough of all of this racist garbage. It’s time to put a stop to language that excludes others. Take the mention of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for example.
One school administrator began the school year cracking down on exclusive language. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland, Oregon, hears subtle racism every day. And that’s just plain wrong. She explained to the Portland Tribune in September how a simple example of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a classroom indicated “white privilege”.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches? 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.” (source)
There was no mention in the article whether the teacher was talking about sandwiches on white bread or whole wheat bread.
Guttierrez , along with the other principals in Portland, are part of a district-wide initiative to examine the lack of racial equity in the school system. The program is called Courageous Conversations.
Through intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives, the premise is that if educators can understand their own “white privilege,” then they can 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.
Like many if not all of PPS’ leaders, Gutierrez has gone through California-based consultant Glenn Singleton’s “Coaching for Educational Equity,” a weeklong seminar on race and how it affects life; she’s also become an “affiliate,” certified to teach the equity curriculum; and she serves on the district’s administrative committee to address systematic racism, a group that meets every other week.
“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,” Guitierrez’ letter to staff reads. (source)
The program is based on a book by Glenn E. Singleton: Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools. This example of political correctness run amok is racing across the country (oops – can I say racing or is that racist?) in the form of “summits” for educators. According to the St. Louis summit website, it’s subtle racism that is causing a disparity between white kids and non-white kids.
- In 2010, a study released by the Council of the Great City Schools stated that by fourth grade, only 12% of Black male students read at or above grade level, while 38% of White males do. By eighth grade, the numbers fall to 9% for Black males, and 33% for Whites.
- The Alliance for Excellent Education recently reported that barely half of African-American and Latino students graduate from high school, with Latinos graduating at 56% and African-Americans at 54%, as compared to their White counterparts at 77%.
- National Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores have revealed that low-income White students consistently outperform middle and upper income Black and Latino students.
The statistics are stark and revealing, and our task as educators is undeniable: We must continue to engage in honest, unapologetic conversations about racial disparities in education and effective ways in which to unlock the untapped potential of children of color. (source)
The Pacific Education Group is also on board with the summits. Here is their goal:
Each October, PEG brings together dedicated racial equity leaders from throughout the U.S. and around the world to engage in a deepened conversation about systemic racism and its impact on opportunity and achievement for all students. The National Summit for Courageous Conversation is uniquely designed for educators, civic and community leaders, and other professionals who are committed to elevating individual/organizational racial consciousness and eradicating racial disparities that are predictably evident in academic achievement. (source)
I have this really cool idea that would help raise test scores across the board. What if….and this is revolutionary….the teacher’s just TAUGHT. What if kids learned math, science, and English? What if the schools scrapped the Common Core curriculum and focused on teaching all of the kids their lessons until they understood them, and then moved on to the next unit, instead of covering each section for a designated time and then moving on to the next one, regardless of whether or not the students understood the first lesson? What if the schools stopped trying to brainwash children about the dangers of guns, the language of racism, and all of the politically correct baloney that they spend more time on than the Three Rs?
Oh wait. They can’t do that. That would create independent thinkers and intelligent adults. Their entire plan to subjugate the population would be ruined. Whatever was I thinking? Please, by all means, continue shaming children into political correctness by indicating that the contents of their lunch boxes are racist. We definitely can’t continue on our path of “white privilege” by considering typically American cultural norms…normal.
Extreme political correctness is destroying the public school system, the only chance for education for many children whose parents can’t or won’t homeschool. Imaginary offenses create an atmosphere of shame and fear. The better to control you with, my dear.
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Another example of calling something the opposite of what it is (like “freedom = slavery”). Courageous conversations are anything BUT. White people who find themselves in the crosshairs of one of these “conversations” are dumbfounded to realize that it is a one-way “conversation” — which is not a conversation at all, but a berating and a shaming — a training of the white person to do self-shaming. The “courageous” part, I guess, is because it supposedly takes guts to sit there and allow yourself to be subjected to this indoctrination masquerading as enlightenment. But I see it differently — get some REAL courage, turn your brain on, find your voice and do not put up with this.
This started a long time ago in the army and i’m sure other branches of the service. The old guys(i’m included in that old part) were subjected to what was called r&r. This was a race relations class that lasted three days and was nothing more than a black history class. The military was having real racial problems and they thought this was the answer but it seemed to inflame the problem even more so after three years and being cut to only a half a day they scraped the whole thing. This all took placeat the end of the war in Vietnam.
Hey, Redhorse
I was incountry, Vietnam, 1969, US Army, Draftee,,,,,
and then r&r………was rest and recouperation…….of which one could ask for and get a break from the fighting….
Vong tou……in country, a coastal city, was one place a person could go for a break……..
so don’t know what you are referring to………..
Robert Beason US56639487……….US army in country 1969
YOU REALIZE JUST HOW MUCH OUR NATION HAS CHANGED (AND NOT FOR THE BETTER) WHEN SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS A CHILDS PB&J SANDWICH CAN BE CALLED ‘RACIST’……SERIOUSLY!
JUST WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?!?
You could never call my pb&J racist.
Ingredients – White and Wheat bread, Crunchy Peanut Butter, Jelly (any flav), Jalapeños slices, Watermelon slices, with Southern Fried Chicken. And let’s not forget Ritz Crackers (I don’t want to get fined $10)
What EE said…
So if I send the kid off to school with a burrito I’m OK? Or fill two tortillas with peanut butter & jelly, is that OK? What if an Hispanic kid brown bags a PB&J? What does that make him?
Well, as Walter the Senior Citizens would say, “Dumbasses”.
Maybe introducing the minorities to success through hard work is what is needed, not this unspeakable nonsense. Maybe the white kids need to learn how to mooch off the system, join a gang and be a burden to society.
Alinsky must be laughing his head off (if laughing is allowed in hell).
Why not point out the similarities? A knish reminds me of a samosa. My dad as a poor farmer back in the day used to take mashed potato sandwiches to school, all three are basically the same thing but just look different.
I’d love to make light of this but my kids and I have come right up against it, and it really makes me mad. Example: when they were in elementary school, we have a very diverse student body, and all the schools around here have “International Day” where you are supposed to celebrate your heritage, with cultural artifacts, clothing, food, celebrations, and so on. Well, my kids are American and we no longer identify with any ethnic heritage of any of our ancestors. If we did, it would be a white ethnic heritage. But we don’t. So my kids felt very out of place when they tried to talk about our family’s culture, and so they felt compelled to invent some kind of heritage so they wouldn’t feel left out. I was so irritated. There is nothing wrong with being of white American descent. Our ancestors came here on a variety of boats several generations ago, and we are a mix of many ethnicities. Not any one particular ethnic group.
I know what this school administrator (in the article) is referring to. It is the “subtle racism” that might be in a math problem, where they talk about examples of American food being peanut butter and jelly. And so the other Americans who come from different ethnic backgrounds might not identify with that and feel excluded, like my white children felt excluded on International Day.
I think it is OK to have “conversations” about such things, but what I have seen happen all too often is the slipping in of a bit of white guilt, and that is truly counterproductive. It really doesn’t work when only one side of the conversation is allowed to speak or be offended, and then commit the same sin in reverse…
I agree. It’s reverse racism.
Minorities aren’t dropping out because of white cultural mores but because of their own cultural mores. Here in my town of 6,000 there are 15 gangs and a branch of at least one of the Mexican cartels. Drugs abound. Dealers have nice cars, free housing and medical care. Fourteen year old girls are sent to the doctor by granny who wants to know why they aren’t pregnant yet. Half the people in town are on food stamps. They don’t have any problem buying toxic American factory food with their SNAP cards. Don’t give me this foolishness about PB&J sandwiches being “racist”. If they are, then so are Coke and pizza.
I refuse to feel guilty. I didn’t chose my parents any more than the next person. Somebody else picked them out for me. One thing my dad taught is to play the hand you’re dealt. Those low-information bureaucrats are living in the classical Marxist fantasy of equality of outcome… until they become the oligarchs.
What people really need is equal opportunity, motivation and the opportunity for a classical education where they are taught to think logically from a set of irrefutable facts. International Days are a waste of time. That stuff belongs on the playground.
Every immigrant has to deal with integrating into a new culture. They knew that before they left. I take exception to those who willfully left their country of birth and want to set up the same corrupt third world practices here (honor killings, genital mutilation, kidnappings, pederasty, etc.). They should never have left and the bureaucrats who denigrate this majority culture in favor of those who couldn’t make in the old country need to try living in some of those psycho-cultures.
Earlier immigrants were never on the dole while they WORKED their way up. They were glad to get a sandwich, any kind of a sandwich, rather than starve. And they had to put up with some pretty obnoxious PTB in the process.
Does any one remember “Aunt Jemima”, I think that is how they spell it. How about those jewish bagels, etc.
how right you are, digger. maybe after they change the Redskins game they will go after Aunt Jemima.
Yep EE, I had to say it. Yes, a long time ago when I was a kid LOL , we had home made pan cakes, and it was a treat to have Aunt Jemima`s pan cakes, corn bread, or grits. And I am a white boy. 🙂
Hey All
When I was a schoolkid,I was teased for only having pb&j sandwiches and a greasy lunchbag from the loose Utz potato chips,as being poor we couldnt afford the hot school lunches.
Steve
Yes Steve, I`ve been there too, as a kid growing up. It gives ya a semse of appreciation and respect growing up like that doesn`t it .
Its all marxist nonsense to subjugate whites. You flood a country with non speaking backwoods poor mexicans which actually score the same average as domestic blacks in testing and point to the obvious fact; that Whites and Asians naturally score higher in testing. Ms. Gutierrez omits one fact, she’s a bilingual minority who successfully graduated a master’s program alongside her other PB&J eating cohorts.
This is one of the reasons I pulled my youngest out of school when obummer stole the presidency in 2008. I just knew the sh** was gonna hit the fan, it was a feeling that I could not shake. I am so greatful that I did, especially with this common core communism. Our state, Louisiana has took it hook, line and sinker. These dumb ass sheep over here have no clue, I feel like I am living in some crazy f***ing matrix run by complete fricking idiots.
I am in a sea of idiots, they are everywhere you go, the store, the mall, the gas station, my neighborhood, work, they are like a disease you cannot get away from, they make me want to puke.
rbeason. I know r&r was rest and relaxation in Nam but the army was confused after the war and used the same term for race relations. When they told me i was getting r&r i had only been at my duty station for two months. I asked why me, they said i had been picked and then we found out r&r had two meanings. Go figure.
Redhorse! I don’t doubt that…….The US military is liable to come up with anything, lots of which, makes no sense….
Wish it weren’t so. But! That’s the way it is!
Like all the missing Trillions from the Pentagon budget, over the time I have been alive….68+ years!….This country is broke, totally taken over by the Zionists, controlling things, including the military, in round about ways, its’s economic base is shot, its people severely crippled, and the military stands there and takes it!
Makes a person just shake one’s head in disbelief course I know better…..the reality is, we are where we are…..Now how do we get out of this mess….if not me, then the next in line or the next….Someone is going to have to confront this monster before it destroys mankind….on all continents!
Tell the school that they’re kosher PB&J’s. Then if they say anything negative about them, you can charge them with being anti-Semitic.
Report them to the ADL.
Or Mossad.
Just have a PBJ bagel #1. Oh yea, I forgot the cream cheese 🙂 A jews wet dream I bet.