12-02-2015, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Sly
Not really what? Your snopes article is about whether or not the sandwiches are getting banned. Who said that?
The article I posted was about a principal suggesting the peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist. Which she did.
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it's a good idea to read the article in its entirety prior to disputing it.
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Verenice Gutierrez picks up on the subtle language of racism every day.
Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year.
"What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?" says Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School, a diverse school of 500 students in Northeast Portland?s Cully neighborhood.
"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."
Unfortunately, since the article's author (not Principal Gutierrez) used the word "racism" in the article's opening line, this brief opening passage was taken out of context and spun into a claim that Portland schools were seeking to "ban" peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for being "racist."
The claim really gained traction through an article published to the web site Breitbart on 16 September 2012. That article made the incredible leap of logic that since many Portland school leaders had taken part in a "week-long seminar on race" conducted by the Pacific Educational Group (PEG), at a total cost of $526,901, "Portland Schools Spent $500K to Deem PB&J Sandwiches Racist" ? even though there was no tangible connection between the PEG training and Principal Gutierrez's remark to the Portland Tribune about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, nor had Gutierrez (or anyone else in the Portland school system) actually referred to such sandwiches as "racist."
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