Today in “White People Ruin Everything” news a Portland school board has said that peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are racist.
Let me type that out again.
PB&J – or, peanut (p) butter (b) and (&) jelly (j) sandwiches – is racist.
Right-wing blogs like The Breitbart Report and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze are (actually) salivating at the mouth (probably because sandwiches are delicious) due to the fact that this is a legitimate example of political correctness going too far… and whooooo doesn’t like people being overly political correct? Everyone ever in the entire world.
Apparently the issue has something to do with “white privilege” which to my knowledge as a card-carrying white person (since ’84!) means that we get free Starbucks on our birthday and 20% of at certain Banana Republic locations. What it actually means is that white people are more privileged (i.e: born into more privelege simply by being white.) Which, sadly, is somewhat true. Racism is still alive and well in America and most white people, for the most part, have no conscious knowledge of their privilege. But that doesn’t mean you should bring sandwiches into this fight.
For those of you still confused by the issue, allow me to be a journalist copy and paste this paragraph from the Breitbart Report article which outlines some of the malarky:
Dr. Verenice Gutierrez, a principal with Oregon’s Portland Public Schools, has become convinced that America’s “white culture” negatively influences educators’ world view and the manner in which they teach their students.
So I guess that means “Everybody Loves Raymond” is totally racist, too. Carry on…
For instance, last year a teacher in the district presented a lesson that included a reference to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Gutierrez says that by using sandwiches as an illustration, the teacher was engaged in a very subtle form of racism.
“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” asked Gutierrez, according to Portland Tribune. “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.”
I see the point they are trying to make – that we should be more concious of others – but they are going about it with an incredibly bad way, concentrating on a leaf when there’s a goddam forest fire all around them. Maybe they do eat a torta or a pita but jesus fucking christ we are talking about a goddam sandwich here.
This is the kind of liberal brainwanking that makes people hate liberals. It is the same thought process that the GOP uses, like imposing one’s religious beliefs onto everyone else and then calling it “infringing on religious rights” when we ask you to stop being a fucking asshole – we, as the hopefully more sensible party, shouldn’t be imposing clueless, blindingly self-unaware rhetoric onto others.
I’m all for more bipartisanal talk in this country, but making sandwiches a debate point? Fuck. No.
October 02, 2012 at 6:47 pm, Naomi Sumner Forte said:
Wow…
October 02, 2012 at 7:05 pm, Calvin Miner said:
It would be one thing if a wave of pbj-bannings was sweeping the nation, but its not, and getting upset about something irrelevant like this is to act like a little breitbart. Don't be a breitbart.
October 03, 2012 at 10:40 pm, Bill Roddick said:
Like forced massive non-White immigration and integration in every White nation and ONLY White nation? I agree, this genocide is a much bigger story.
October 02, 2012 at 7:28 pm, Julie Benson-Grant said:
Yes, there is such a thing as carrying it too far. So, if the next lesson references said torta or pita, doesn't that too, become "racist" too? And who says that kids of every color and nationality doesn't enjoy a good old fashioned PB&J?
Truth be told, I figured the story was going to be about PB&J being a "poor" kids' food and how it was used to make rich kids feel bad that they don't eat them!
October 02, 2012 at 9:38 pm, Keeley Tarter said:
Yeah, how could a Hispanic kid possibly know what a piece of bread is? They only eat tortas in South America, after all. /sarcasm
October 02, 2012 at 7:51 pm, Matt Shelby said:
There's much more to the story on this one. And no, nobody at Portland Public Schools thinks PBJ sandwiches are racist: http://www.politifact.com/oregon/statements/2012/sep/18/education-action-group/portland-schools-spending-half-million-dollars-dec/.
October 02, 2012 at 9:13 pm, Cara Cooper said:
This article would have been better without the cursing. But yes, I do COMPLETELY agree with it! Who the heck cares what kind of food people eat? I am a White American through & through. But to tell you the truth, I actually HAVE had pb&j on pita bread, and it really wasn't that bad! I LOVE pita, and I LOVE torta, and I LOVE pb&j! What does that make me, homogenous?
October 03, 2012 at 10:39 pm, Bill Roddick said:
I think genocide through massive non-white immigration and forced integration in every white nation and ONLY White nations is more of an issue, but this is certainly pathetic.
October 04, 2012 at 3:53 am, Connie J Jackson-Welcher said:
I'm half black and half white so does that mean I can only have half a sandwich? And what about my kids who are black/white/native American…what do they only eat? LOL The interesting thing about children who grow up IN America is that they are actually some of the most culturally diverse kids on the planet. My kids know just as much about pb&j as they do about tortas, pitas, injeras(ethiopian flat bread), naan. As do so many other kids in this country. It's ridiculous to think that just because a student is of a certain race that they would NEVER encounter any other 'cultural' food. Although I wasn't aware that pb&j was a specific cultural food but…
October 02, 2012 at 9:15 pm, Irish Caramazza said:
'"Ahh, enjoying a peanut-butter & jelly sandwich…" YOU RACIST FUCKIN BASTARD!
Political Correctness has officially gone too far.
October 02, 2012 at 9:33 pm, Connie J Jackson-Welcher said:
I'm sorry…what? If anything this is action is a prime example OF racism. To assume that other non-white cultures couldn't understant the metaphore of a pb&j sandwich simply because of their race. That is the stupidest thing…it's not about race it's about environment and culture. And two kids of different races growing up in the same neighborhood are exposed to the SAME environment and culture regardless of what goes on IN their home. They watch the same tv, they listen to the same radio, they play the same video games and the EAT THE SAME DAMN sandwiches. JEEBUZZ FRICKIN….I can't take it anymore. I'm so sick of people trying to protect us from ourselves. OMFG I have to go lay down….
October 03, 2012 at 12:36 am, Irish Caramazza said:
EGGG…. SAXCTLY.
October 03, 2012 at 1:40 am, Julie Benson-Grant said:
Ah, my new favorite "curse: JEEBUZZ FRICKIN…. lol
October 03, 2012 at 3:09 am, Nation Bray said:
And THIS is where I step the fuck out.
October 03, 2012 at 10:37 pm, Bill Roddick said:
Political correctness IS a religion.
October 04, 2012 at 1:50 am, Fritz Baumler said:
Now you know that would only happen of you are eating a pp&j and you happen to be White.
March 27, 2013 at 4:53 am, Heather Dawn Dixon said:
Great response Connie! I can't really add anything more!
October 02, 2012 at 10:18 pm, Rob Kane said:
PB&J is now the N-word sandwich. Now it's really racist.
October 04, 2012 at 8:22 pm, George Wells said:
Times coming when a person using the r word will be laughed at. But the anti-racist/anti-whites will be trying to find another mantra term to replace it.
October 04, 2012 at 8:40 pm, Rob Kane said:
r word: republican?
October 06, 2012 at 10:32 pm, George Wells said:
Not talking about the one party system – republicrats.
Genocide is any effort to disappear a people.
“Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.” Fraser-PM Australia ‘75-83
When you have policies that reduce the number of white people by various means and then superimpose upon them highly fertile non-whites in the same living space, given time, the end result is the same as trotting them onto trains and boats and systemically killed. The result is the same, agreed?
Isn't the term "white privilege" just another & new way of calling white people "racists?"
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white.
January 04, 2013 at 8:51 pm, Dege Boller said:
George Wells what the hell are saying?
February 06, 2013 at 2:44 am, Rachel Strothers said:
Well said George Wells!
October 02, 2012 at 10:18 pm, Rob Kane said:
PB&J is now the N-word sandwich. Now it's really racist.
October 02, 2012 at 10:52 pm, Lushay Omomukuyo said:
What.
October 03, 2012 at 12:50 am, Cesar Valdez said:
you have got to be fucken kidding me -___-
October 03, 2012 at 4:18 am, Pyrrhic Victory said:
If it had been a fried bologna sandwich, they'd have had a point….
October 03, 2012 at 4:21 am, Pyrrhic Victory said:
Seriously though, the obvious solution would be, in schools with two or more significantly represented groups, offer meals from each group. Sandwich one day, taco the next, whatever.
October 03, 2012 at 4:28 am, Robin Bethell said:
Well said, Ned. I like that you acknowledge the Portland principle POV, and then rhetorically assault the idea of sandwich reparations. That being said, it could be argued that referencing dietary staples eatenby one culture is a bit unfair in a multicultural classroom. 8 year old me would have been completely lost if a teacher referenced a sushi roll in a word problem. It is a minor issue, though. Also, I love the word brainwanking.
October 03, 2012 at 10:03 pm, Fritz Baumler said:
Anti-racism is a code word for anti-White.
October 03, 2012 at 11:43 pm, Penny Marie Sautereau said:
Make…. the hurting…. STOP….
October 04, 2012 at 1:53 am, Fritz Baumler said:
Hmm wander of it would be racist if a Black teacher used kool-aid or fried chicken as an example?
October 04, 2012 at 1:54 am, Fritz Baumler said:
What if a Mexican teacher used tacos?
October 04, 2012 at 3:45 am, Estefani Maria said:
oh God… please tell me this joke…. no one could seriously be this retarded, could they? :'(
October 04, 2012 at 6:26 am, Johanna Caba Rodriguez said:
O.O
October 04, 2012 at 4:39 pm, Craig Williams said:
This is inaccurate and silly. Next time, it would help for you to research something before regurgitating Breitbart. I'll do the work for you: http://www.politifact.com/oregon/statements/2012/sep/18/education-action-group/portland-schools-spending-half-million-dollars-dec/.
October 04, 2012 at 4:58 pm, Kim O'Shields Stiles said:
How people twist the truth is just so out of control.
October 15, 2012 at 6:58 pm, John Crouch said:
you mean like Fox News and Mitt Romney ?
October 04, 2012 at 8:20 pm, George Wells said:
When we have: Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White Countries for Everybody, what do we have overtime?
We have solid Black only and Solid Asian only countries, exclusively for Blacks and Asians, based upon exclusive genetics and culture. Culture is respected and so tolerable to these groups. They do not need to tolerate massive inflows of invaders and made to tolerate foreign cultures.
We have more and more non-whites in White countries since the right of Whites to exclusive territory is denied them.
We have fewer and fewer White people.
How is this not White genocide?
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white.
When we mix more non-whites and fewer Whites in the same living space, what do we get?
In time, White extinction. Its called White genocide because this does not happen by chance. It is being forced upon Whites just like a rapist does not take no for an answer.
How is this not so? How is this not White genocide?
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-white.
October 04, 2012 at 10:16 pm, Chris Jenkins said:
I don't want to live on this planet anymore……
October 04, 2012 at 10:22 pm, William McDonough said:
That's more bogus than mitt stabbing Elmo to death
October 04, 2012 at 11:29 pm, Tim Lovejoy said:
fuck elmo
October 05, 2012 at 2:11 am, Nason Aubin said:
Oh for fucks sake! Elmo can suck a gay Muslims man anus.
October 05, 2012 at 7:18 pm, Aaron Patton said:
Before anybody else posts, read this:
http://www.politifact.com/oregon/statements/2012/sep/18/education-action-group/portland-schools-spending-half-million-dollars-dec/
October 06, 2012 at 4:03 am, Ian Drink said:
How did you sum up the fact that he thinks pb and j is something white people eat by saying white people aka "the people in charge of the world" are brainwashing teacher's word view. If you do a little research, you will find out that he is absolutely right and that more people need to wake up because they all grew up in these schools in which they were also brainwashed. Think about it. All you know is what someone else has told you. And they were told by someone else. It's not that teachers are lying to you, it's that they don't know they're wrong.
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October 12, 2012 at 1:56 am, Colin Dean said:
It's true, my sandwiches have been insulting my black friends for awhile. It's really embarrassing.
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October 14, 2012 at 9:14 pm, Klif Farr said:
you don't get free starbucks on your birthday?
November 11, 2012 at 9:28 am, LastDays Windwalker said:
the comments have given me a laugh-outloud ending to my day. thank you! so stink flip funny.
I guess in the north country it would be appropriate to exclude the PB&J for muktuk, seal oil, and caribou.
November 26, 2012 at 5:50 am, Melissa Hannah said:
Omfg
November 26, 2012 at 5:51 am, Melissa Hannah said:
Omfg!!
November 26, 2012 at 6:16 am, Lindsay Tober said:
Iseriously cant deal with the people in this world anymore. ,…
December 08, 2012 at 7:06 pm, Jessica Salter Feindel said:
I'm still confused. How is a pb&j racist? I mean, I usually eat it on white bread, but I have had it on pita bread before…….
January 10, 2013 at 2:42 am, David Goldfarb said:
"So I guess that means 'Everybody Loves Raymond' is totally racist, too. Carry on…"
Actually, yeah. I agree with the article but that one line threw me off that show is totally racist.
January 24, 2013 at 12:30 am, Matt Barbot said:
She used a shitty example in an interview. Whoops. Move along.
January 30, 2013 at 2:38 pm, Brett Schnaper said:
Typical. Someone from a different part of the empire wants the anglo portion of the empire to give equal time to the rest of the empire, as if that person wasn't just another later day roman. pfffft. To many native folks, most imperials look more or less the same. Behavior of this sort is a lot of why that's so.
February 05, 2013 at 6:23 pm, El Kamilo said:
LoL the people that believe it actually is racist are blissfully unaware that every morning, when they look in the mirror, a retard is staring back at them.
February 05, 2013 at 10:32 pm, Eric Moore said:
This is just outright petty.
There is just no pleasing some people.
February 16, 2013 at 6:18 pm, David Cordova said:
Hell..I've had pb&j on a tortilla several times growing up…These people are Fucktards!
March 15, 2013 at 4:56 am, Donna O'Leary said:
Are you kidding me? Stop it with the racism antics already!
March 18, 2013 at 11:53 am, Jorge de Armas said:
Cubans eat sandwiches. We call them sandwiches. This lady is an idiot.
April 12, 2013 at 6:43 pm, Jeff Davis said:
"that's stupid"
- Al Sharpton.