September 10, 2012
— Ace Via Twitchy (via @snarkandboobs) with the sarcasm and such, a Portland educator wants you to ponder all the ethnonormative assumptions packed into your PB&J.
By the way, the Portland Tribune isn't snarky about this -- they give this idiot the Bold Hero Slant.
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.”
Guitierrez, along with all of Portland Public Schools’ principals, will start the new school year off this week by drilling in on the language of “Courageous Conversations,” the district-wide equity training being implemented in every building in phases during the past few years.
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.
I remember reading, say, 20-25 years ago, a pundit fretting about the loss of liberal persuasiveness -- why was the public growing tired of liberal appeals and electing awful insane conservatives?
The proposed answer was "Compassion Fatigue." That liberals had created such a vast and sprawling list of things we all needed to be compassionate about, and think lots of bien pensant thoughts about, that many were getting weary of it all and just wanted to get back to something called "living our own lives."
Do we ever get to just make a peanut butter & jelly sandwich for a kid, or do we have to don the hairshirt whenever we do anything?
"Courageous Conversations:" These seem to be the "Courageous Conversations" referenced in the article. Via @morgenr.
Again I ask: Can I ever stop learning about you and just live my life?
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Posted by: no good deed at September 10, 2012 10:49 AM (mjR67)
Posted by: pep at September 10, 2012 10:49 AM (YXmuI)
I think what they're saying is that all sandwiches are racist especially bacon sandwiches when considering the Muslims.
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 10, 2012 10:50 AM (fLk7W)
Posted by: Berry Soetoro at September 10, 2012 10:51 AM (vYB+W)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at September 10, 2012 10:51 AM (XrGnJ)
Oh, and Verenice Gutierrez can go make me a sandwich.
Posted by: EC at September 10, 2012 10:51 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: no good deed at September 10, 2012 10:51 AM (mjR67)
Posted by: sven10077 at September 10, 2012 10:52 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: LIGuy at September 10, 2012 10:52 AM (+usC4)
In my county, PB&J sandwiches are the "free lunches" for parents who can't afford to pack their children a lunch.
Posted by: EC at September 10, 2012 10:52 AM (GQ8sn)
Now, what to have tomorrow? Something organic?
Posted by: red sweater at September 10, 2012 10:52 AM (Xwgt3)
"I'm just trying to eat my [non-inclusive] waffle here."
Posted by: Tonic Dog at September 10, 2012 10:52 AM (X/+QT)
OK... if he had said anglophones eat sandwiches he may have had 1/5th of a point.
Americans do? PB&J? All of them? I don't eat PB&J, does that make me a terrorist?
But I like how "americans eat sandwiches, how bout you" specifically implies because a kid is somali or hispanic or likes pita bread, he isn't american.
Of all which being really crucial to learning math.
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 10:53 AM (TULs6)
So Mr Gutierrez... yer saying that we, as white privileged honky folks, should think of Hispanics as pita eating taco benders????
Zactly who you calling "racist"???
Posted by: fixerupper at September 10, 2012 10:53 AM (C8hzL)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 10:54 AM (8y9MW)
1. To distract from the awful teaching job they are doing.
2. To continue the societal decent into PC socialism.
3. They are racist themselves, seeing every white child as some future slave holder.
4. They really are that stupid. It's an F'n Sandwich, Idiots.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 10, 2012 10:54 AM (PHb2k)
Posted by: art garfunkels ugly kid at September 10, 2012 10:55 AM (0yt8C)
Oh for fuck's sake.
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.”
You know what I'd say? I'd say, "Hey little Jose, you live in America now. You know that Subway shop you pass every day on the way to school? That's where they make sandwiches. They're really good. You should eat some when you're not eating your arroz con pollo. This is America."
Jesus, how insulting can they be? "Little Mbutu doesn't know what a sandwich is, so we can't mention sandwiches." Hey, how about instead of denying the kid the opportunity to LEARN ABOUT SANDWICHES IN A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, maybe we stop thinking about it so much and just fucking let a sandwich be a g-ddamn sandwich. If I was in Somalia (God forbid) I'd expect to learn about the local foodstuffs because I'd want to be able to eat. What do they eat in Somalia anyway? I mean, besides stuff they pirated off Western ships, looted from Christians and Jews, or scrounged out from under a rock?
(Oooh, I'm so racist)
Holy fuck noodles I hate these people. I hate them with a blinding passion.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at September 10, 2012 10:55 AM (4df7R)
GW Carver was a black man.
Therefore Peanut butter sandwiches (with or without jelly) are Racist.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 10:56 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Dancing Banana at September 10, 2012 10:56 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: Earle of Sandwich at September 10, 2012 10:56 AM (mjR67)
Posted by: red sweater at September 10, 2012 10:56 AM (Xwgt3)
Posted by: AndrewsDad at September 10, 2012 10:57 AM (C2//T)
Posted by: Gordon undead Ramsay at September 10, 2012 10:57 AM (9HhTH)
Posted by: sven10077 at September 10, 2012 10:57 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: Touré sees racists in his corn flakes at September 10, 2012 10:57 AM (4136b)
Its has nothing to do with compasion, but ALL to do with the idea that no culture can be better than another....
So... they come to this country because its a really cool place... and then want to make it just like the shit hole they left?
And the LEFT caters to this stupidity... and MAKES MONEY OFF IT! All that teacher training and stuff is not free you know...
I remember in the late 80's when the US Navy tried to implement "Total Quality Management"... it was a F'n disaster because you cannot run a military like a business... it just don't work. Funny how all that crap went right out the window (Vision statements? WTF?) as soon as we heard we were deploying for what became Desert Storm.... (but LOTS of idiots made money off the Navy before that, writing manuals, and we ALL went to multiple seminars).
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 10, 2012 10:57 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Sonny Spats at September 10, 2012 10:57 AM (Bm4aK)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (4df7R)
Run, don't walk, with your children. To a different, preferably not public, school.
Chicago did the kids a favor and went on strike. And we wonder about the state of our country? These public school kids probably think thunder is the gods rolling bowling balls across the sky.
Posted by: bil at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (EhSF0)
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: rdbrewer at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (Iyg03)
Posted by: ace at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (fxHyG)
I didn't have to click to find out she looked exactly like how I pictured her.
Posted by: EC at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: JDTAY at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (a0nis)
Posted by: pj at September 10, 2012 10:58 AM (DQHjw)
Posted by: the pink not panicking about one poll formerly known as the hobbit Donna at September 10, 2012 10:59 AM (W2Z3C)
Posted by: nickless at September 10, 2012 10:59 AM (MMC8r)
So we should aim for Color X privilege? Seems kinda racist. Maybe they should just stick to reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic. Crazy, I know.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at September 10, 2012 10:59 AM (eHIJJ)
So Mr Gutierrez... yer saying that we, as white privileged honky folks, should think of Hispanics as pita eating taco benders????
Exactly. Hence why we need to raise awareness of the subtle language of racism. He's warning you everything he says is subtly racist.
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 10:59 AM (TULs6)
Or, and I'm just spitballing here, I don't give a flying fuck what people in third-world shitholes consider "food". Maybe if they came up with something as cheap, simple, and awesome as PB&J, they wouldn't be dripping with the stink of failure.
Through intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives
And this is where your tax dollars go every time these education-racket parasites whine about needing to appropriate an ever-larger slice of your standard of living for themselves.
Posted by: VJay at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (q5NFp)
Especially the comfortable part.
Because that is long gone.
Posted by: Moochelle Obama at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (dN5sa)
Who failed them for the last 5 years ?
... or should I assume they just arrived from the "Mother ship" ?
Posted by: Dr Sheldon Cooper at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (e8kgV)
Idiocracy was a documentary, not a comedy.
Oh, and Brawndo's got electrolytes!
Posted by: EC at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: @PurpAv at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (uKnGb)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD you know you want me at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Jonesey in Jonestown at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (Dll6b)
Posted by: Dr Spank at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (fLk7W)
FIFY
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:00 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: the pink not panicking about one poll formerly known as the hobbit Donna at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (W2Z3C)
Posted by: Whoever this is, it's definitely not Michael at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (JVCVF)
Posted by: Children of Hispanic, African, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Indian decent at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (PHb2k)
Posted by: Social Science Graduate Student at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: Cowboy at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (iO3BG)
Posted by: Teacher of the Year at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (R18D0)
GW Carver was a black man.
Therefore Peanut butter sandwiches (with or without jelly) are Racist.
And GW Carter died penniless and insane, trying to play a phonograph record with a peanut.
Posted by: Professor Shabazz K Morton at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (HpT9p)
Seriously, isn't this the point of....um...TEACHING?! If you're using a reference to PBJ ("What's jelly?"), the Pythagorean theorem ("What's an angle?"), or the Constitution ("What's a right?"), if the kid's don't know then there's a simple solution: tell them!
That's the reason, to get as many kids to a base level of knowledge/understanding/whatever in order to function at a certain level. Teach UP, not down.
If a kid doesn't know PBJ; well, the next kid might not know pita. That doesn't mean that you skip teaching the underlying lesson. duh! (sigh)
Posted by: Tonic Dog at September 10, 2012 11:01 AM (X/+QT)
GW Carver was a black man.
Therefore Peanut butter sandwiches (with or without jelly) are Racist.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 02:56 PM (8y9MW)
I thought the "black inventor" history meant that NOT eating peanut butter was racist. Just to be safe, I will go eat peanut butter on pita bread.
Posted by: wooga at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (vjyZP)
"Hi, little kid whose parents brought you to America. You're The Other."
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Teacher of the Year at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (R18D0)
Maybe they should just stick to reading, 'riting, and 'rithmatic. Crazy, I know.
-----
B-b-b-b-b-but.... I want to make a difference. I want my job to mean something. I WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD!!!!!
Thats why I went into teaching.
(well.... that and the 90% pension I didnt pay into.)
Posted by: Libtard Teachers Everywhere at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (C8hzL)
Posted by: @PurpAv at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (uKnGb)
Hey, here's something everyone can relate to, even little Achmed from his backwater middle eastern shithole of a country.
"There are two goats. One goat goes away. How many goats are left?"
See? Multi-culti, all inclusive, and only slightly racist to poor little Achmed's goat-loving father.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Justamom in Achin' Akin's district at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (Sptt8)
Posted by: Penfold at September 10, 2012 11:02 AM (1PeEC)
Posted by: Social Science Graduate Student at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: nickless at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Cicero at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Jean at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (WnnBz)
They used to trot him out every February. But the kids would rather watch videos about Tupac than watch videos about GWC, so what are you going to do?
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: soothsayer at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (OgiBc)
No. Your fingers should be eaten separately. Bazinga!
Posted by: Dr Sheldon Cooper at September 10, 2012 11:03 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Cute 15 year old Japanese School Girl in a Giant Mecha at September 10, 2012 11:04 AM (54vf8)
>>>It's peanutbutter jelly time!
Damn you! **Shakes fist** Like that's getting out of my head anytime soon.
Posted by: Lurking Canuck at September 10, 2012 11:04 AM (BrQrN)
Posted by: zombie Earl of Sandwich at September 10, 2012 11:04 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: sven10077 at September 10, 2012 11:04 AM (LRFds)
Posted by: nickless at September 10, 2012 11:04 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: no good deed at September 10, 2012 02:49 PM (mjR67)
And that was considered a good thing too, not sure it's seen as such now.
Does that mean that as not-immigrants I should stop my children from using tortillas as their PB&J base? They'd look at me like I'd grown a second head if I tried that.
Posted by: Polliwogette, teahada hobbbit who wants some R & R at September 10, 2012 11:04 AM (chdbY)
Posted by: George Zimmerman at September 10, 2012 11:05 AM (e8kgV)
The federally-funded lunch snooper will confiscate them, humiliate your child, give them a plate of chicken by-products, and send you a bill.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:05 AM (/kI1Q)
I don't know how many times I've looked for this skill when perusing resumes and been sadly disappointed at its lack in an otherwise stellar candidate.
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at September 10, 2012 11:05 AM (dN5sa)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 11:05 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: Kevin
It wasn't too long ago when bringing lobster sandwiches to school was a sign of poverty in the outports of Newfoundland.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at September 10, 2012 11:05 AM (VLifP)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 10, 2012 11:05 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Jean at September 10, 2012 11:05 AM (WnnBz)
You've got to admire the courage of the people speaking up.
Â@
Whether it's marching across a bridge in Selma, Alabama or talking about peanut butter and jelly, in the mind of liberals, they are all heroes.
Damn, they're brave.
Posted by: jwest at September 10, 2012 11:06 AM (ZDsRL)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 10, 2012 11:06 AM (05RcU)
"There are two goats. One goat goes away. How many goats are left?"
Two goats are left, after my clan tracks down the thief who stole our goat, and we kill every man in his village and rape all of his women. Then we get our goat back.
Posted by: Little Ahmed at September 10, 2012 11:06 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: soothsayer at September 10, 2012 11:06 AM (OgiBc)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at September 10, 2012 11:06 AM (VLifP)
Posted by: @PurpAv at September 10, 2012 11:07 AM (uKnGb)
Yes, Jesus. They can be an "Ugly Hispanic"
Posted by: George Zimmerman at September 10, 2012 11:07 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Obama Ghost Writer at September 10, 2012 11:07 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk, reminding everybody we are boned at September 10, 2012 11:07 AM (PHb2k)
Posted by: soothsayer at September 10, 2012 11:07 AM (OgiBc)
Posted by: Gordon undead Ramsay
Classy joke told by the actress who played Aunt Ester on Sanford and Son...
"I'm like peanut butter. Brown, smooth and easy to spread."
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 11:08 AM (R18D0)
God hates libtards because they are all ugly.
Posted by: EC at September 10, 2012 11:08 AM (GQ8sn)
Here's a thought::
It that Somali or hispanic student is so traumatized by the suggestion of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, maybe that Somali or hispanic student should return to his/her own country, where he/she can live without the fear of constantly being exposed to U.S. culture.
But if these foreigners are going to come and live here in OUR country so they can take advantage of all that OUR country has to offer, then they had damn well better understand that they are going to have to make some adjustments to the fact that they are choosing to live in OUR culture, and we're not going to change who we are or how we live just to avoid potentially offending their ethnic sensibilities.
Posted by: Bystander at September 10, 2012 11:08 AM (/sohm)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 11:08 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: George Zimmerman at September 10, 2012 03:07 PM (e8kgV)
I believe you mean, "White Hispanic".
Posted by: Associated Press at September 10, 2012 11:08 AM (/YJYi)
Posted by: soothsayer at September 10, 2012 11:08 AM (OgiBc)
Posted by: Obama Ghost Writer at September 10, 2012 11:09 AM (r2PLg)
meat between bread is international
McfuckingDonalds is international
Please don't confuse the pseudo-sophisticated cosmopolitan retards whose idea of what the world is like comes from reading illustrated editions of Hemingway novels.
Posted by: Cicero at September 10, 2012 11:09 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Shtetl G at September 10, 2012 11:09 AM (Ee5f/)
Since some idiot Supreme Court Justice decided that being born here meant you were automatically a citizen.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:09 AM (8y9MW)
http://tinyurl.com/bvjtp7v
Posted by: Buzzsaw at September 10, 2012 11:09 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 10, 2012 11:09 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD you know you want me at September 10, 2012 11:09 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Justamom in Achin' Akin's district at September 10, 2012 11:10 AM (Sptt8)
Milk is very racist...so is water...and air.
Teacher: "Here in America, we Americans drink milk from cows with chocolate syrup. Maybe you have something like that in your Somali culture - do you suck wild goat tits or something?"
Student: Dude I'm 4th generation... I just had a snapple...
Teacher: "Horchata?"
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 11:10 AM (TULs6)
Bread must be stamped out!
Posted by: @PurpAv at September 10, 2012 11:10 AM (uKnGb)
Chuck Barber, who also offers boysÂ’ drum corps at Vernon and Faubion
schools in Northeast Portland, approached Gutierrez last year to start
up a lunch-time drum class for black and Latino boys once a week....
At least one parent has a problem with the the class, saying it amounts to “blatant discrimination and equity of women, Asians, whites and Native Americans.”
“This ‘club’ was approved by the administration, and any girls who complained were brushed off and it was not addressed,” the parent wrote anonymously.
Gutierrez denies that any students were turned away from the drum corps, and vehemently rejects any suggestion that it is discrimination to offer a club catering to minority boys.
“When white people do it, it is not a problem, but if it’s for kids of color, then it’s a problem?” says Gutierrez, 40, an El Paso, Texas, native whose parents were Mexican immigrants. “Break it down for me. That’s your white privilege, and your whiteness.”In what alternate fucking universe would any school in the country be allowed to get away with an activity specifically for white students, you dumb racist twat?
Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 10, 2012 11:10 AM (SY2Kh)
It's going to be very difficult to keep you off-kilter if we're not constantly engaging you with "teachable moments."
Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 10, 2012 11:10 AM (mg08E)
Soylent Green?
Posted by: EC at September 10, 2012 11:10 AM (GQ8sn)
Well, I was half right.
Posted by: Uncledave at September 10, 2012 11:10 AM (nJ32z)
Shit, back last century when I was a schoolkid, PB (no J) used to be on the school lunch plate as a protein, either in a ball with two celery sticks jammed in it, or as a sammich to lend gravitas to mac-n-cheese on Lenten Fridays.
(And now we have Meatless Mondays to Save Teh Planet, but it's quinoa stew or falafel ragout. You know what little Johnny, little Jesus, and little Achmed have in common? None of them want to eat that shit.)
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Tonic Dog at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (X/+QT)
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (R18D0)
Huh. Who knew there'd be an up-side to those stupid rules?
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Paladin at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (4kpbt)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: LIGuy at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (+usC4)
Posted by: Unclefacts, now with even more summoning power. at September 10, 2012 11:11 AM (6IReR)
Posted by: Janet Reno (still a pre-op after all these years...) at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (XvHmy)
I nearly choked on the cookie dough I'm eating. Weekend poll numbers depress me so. This is what I'm reduced to.
Posted by: no good deed at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (mjR67)
"If you could do that, why was I paying for your lunch?" ~ John Q Public.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: joncelli, heartless Con and all around unpleasant guy at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 10, 2012 03:10 PM (SY2Kh)
Oh that's it. Someone restrain me, b/c I am a milisecond away from maxing out my credit card, buying a plane ticket to Portland, and punching this hagfaced toad right in her ugly mug for being a dumbass bitchtard communist titleech.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (4df7R)
Isn't it really PB and Jam not jelly?
There was a time you could get it pre-mixed in the same jar.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (VLifP)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (QxSug)
The Somali lady is a nurse, married with kids. Anyway, she gave wifey an earful that she thinks America is amazing, but she's disgusted to see the lazy welfare entitlement culture that has taken hold, particularly among blacks. She's planning to bug out to Dubai soon.
Posted by: Uncledave at September 10, 2012 11:12 AM (nJ32z)
I don't think you're ready for this jelly
I don't think you're ready for this
'Cause my sandwich is too racist for ya babe
Posted by: destiny's teenage pregnancy at September 10, 2012 11:13 AM (Xwgt3)
Posted by: Havedash at September 10, 2012 11:13 AM (BRhGr)
Posted by: fluffy at September 10, 2012 11:13 AM (z9HTb)
Posted by: Xuyee at September 10, 2012 11:13 AM (/QiO2)
Posted by: Justamom in Achin' Akin's district at September 10, 2012 11:13 AM (Sptt8)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 03:11 PM (QxSug)
And this is a big part of why right wingers are seen as racists. Calling pseudo-intellectual bullshit for what it is equals racism.
Posted by: Adam at September 10, 2012 11:14 AM (/YJYi)
Posted by: George Zimmerman at September 10, 2012 11:14 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 10, 2012 11:14 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 10, 2012 11:14 AM (B/VB5)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:14 AM (8y9MW)
I'd like to take every one of them and personally rip the veil of ignorance and racism from off of their face. Wait, is 'veil' racist?
Posted by: Tonic Dog at September 10, 2012 11:14 AM (X/+QT)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at September 10, 2012 11:14 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: General Zod at September 10, 2012 11:15 AM (2+bRt)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 10, 2012 11:15 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: EJ "Mustard Boy"Dionne at September 10, 2012 11:15 AM (e8kgV)
Toto Torta!
Posted by: Obama Ghost Writer at September 10, 2012 03:10 PM (r2PLg)
Rin Tin Torta
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 10, 2012 11:15 AM (TIIx5)
"This is where we're headed..."
{insert clip}
"Is it really where you want to go?"
Hang this loopy bitch around Obama's neck like an albatross and let him disavow it.
Posted by: @PurpAv at September 10, 2012 11:15 AM (uKnGb)
Why do Immigrants even come here....if we are sooo fuckin 'evil'?
Do they come here to change this country into the same shitholes they came from?
'Multiculturalism' is a liberal construct, designed to devalue the culture of the host country.
Europe is finally figuring this out.
Posted by: wheatie at September 10, 2012 11:15 AM (6OdwW)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 11:16 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: grognard at September 10, 2012 11:16 AM (NS2Mo)
Well. You could cut down to just one square.
Posted by: Sheryll Crow at September 10, 2012 11:16 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Malia in DC at September 10, 2012 11:16 AM (AsY5D)
I could only force myself to watch about 2 minutes of that awful video.
But my observation of the "white privileged people" who are in the audience, being forced to listen to that crap in person, is that they are being tortured. Obviously they had to sit through those "lectures" in order to keep their jobs.
What fun, sitting there for hours on end being told you are an evil racist, and not being able to raise your hand and disagree or you would be fired on the spot. You just know that would be the punishment.
Posted by: Boots at September 10, 2012 11:16 AM (neKzn)
Posted by: Hector at September 10, 2012 11:17 AM (6Lik1)
Smuckers Goober'n Grape. I think they do a strawberry version too.
Posted by: @PurpAv at September 10, 2012 11:17 AM (uKnGb)
If you can't understand a math problem because we didn't change "PB&J" to "Torta", you don't know the material.
See me after class,
Professor Keynes
Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at September 10, 2012 11:17 AM (xAtAj)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 11:18 AM (QxSug)
Posted by: LIGuy at September 10, 2012 11:18 AM (+usC4)
Posted by: Fritz at September 10, 2012 11:18 AM (/ZZCn)
Posted by: Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna at September 10, 2012 11:18 AM (e8kgV)
...in the next iteration of the Matrix when the One accepts his fate and repairs the code, I would very much like it if these lefty busy-bodies would just FOAD and leave the rest of us the hell alone.
Don't think for a minute that PB&J sandwiches are the end of it. They will find something else to bitch and moan about. What's that quote from CS Lewis about tyrants and busybodies? Something something about preferring a tyrant over a busybody because the tyrant will eventually be satisfied and stop whereas a busybody will keep going.
Posted by: EC at September 10, 2012 11:18 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 10, 2012 11:18 AM (X3lox)
Posted by: Countrysquire at September 10, 2012 11:18 AM (QB3JR)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 10, 2012 11:19 AM (05RcU)
In Mexico a different food is normal. In Korea a different food is normal. I want these people who insist America have no distinct and recognizable culture to suffer agony and break out in hives every time they open their idiot mouths. And I want the people who hire and promote them to suffer even more.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 10, 2012 11:19 AM (r4wIV)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 10, 2012 11:19 AM (XvHmy)
I hate to tell you, but most of them believe it.
My brother (the educator) once opined that standardized tests were racist. His proof was that (for statistics questions) they used cards as their examples, but black kids aren't familiar with cards- they're more familiar with dominoes.
Yes. Really.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:19 AM (8y9MW)
Posted by: Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna at September 10, 2012 11:19 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: toby928© at September 10, 2012 11:20 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: no good deed at September 10, 2012 11:20 AM (mjR67)
This is what happens when the fed government subsidizes public schools.
Posted by: Soona at September 10, 2012 11:20 AM (tchi9)
Posted by: The Jewish Kids at September 10, 2012 11:20 AM (PHb2k)
My grandmother used to put butter on the peanut butter sammiches.
Now I know what I'm having for supper.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:21 AM (/kI1Q)
Oh and as noticed above, peanut butter is a banned substance in schools. It started with "peanut free" tables in the lunchroom, and moved on to "peanut free classrooms" but now it's just banned in many schools.
I guess today's black arbiters of what is racist don't know that (a black man) George Washington Carver invented peanut butter, along with lots of other peanut products. In order to provide ways for newly freed blacks to grow a product and add value to it and take it to market and support themselves in a free society.
Posted by: Boots at September 10, 2012 11:21 AM (neKzn)
"You know what is universal? A fucking knuckle sandwich, beyotches!"
Or, for some of us, a beata pita.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 11:21 AM (l2max)
Boom. Another conservative born. Off to Catholic school.
Posted by: pj at September 10, 2012 11:21 AM (DQHjw)
The PPP Ohio poll was released specifically to support the "perception meme" that Obama is trying to get out there. It was accompanied by targeted concern trolling and compliant media writing supporting articles. Obama is winning, Romney knows it, Romney is giving up on Ohio, there is little chance of victory, the election is over.
Pretty much sums up the weekend, doesn't it?
Here is where I will disagree with Ace. Obama doesn't have a small bump that is putting him in a winning position that needs to be addressed. OBAMA IS STILL LOSING AND NEVER PULLED AHEAD.
The PPP poll uses a D+4 sample, and a Women+9 sample. If you renormalize those numbers to actual Ohio demographics, Romney has a 3 point lead in Ohio in their poll. Add in the undecideds and you get an easy Ohio win for Romney. Ohio is MUST WIN for Obama. If he loses it, he has no path to victory.
What this weekend was about was changing the perception, and a lot of people bought into it. Obama is losing Ohio, and he is trying to switch things up and claim momentum from the DNC to get the "vote for the winner" types to pick him.
The real danger to Romney is going to be on Oct 3rd.
Regardless of what happens in the debate, the MFM is going to go into full throated declaration that Obama "destroyed" Romney. They will spin it as hard as they can, to drive the perception among those who didn't watch the debates that Obama is the clear winner/favorite.
How we address and defeat the predetermined spin from the media is going to be the real issue.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 10, 2012 11:21 AM (WyvSj)
I keep trying to wake up from this bizarro nightmare.
I'm thinking psycologists need to go up against the wall even before the lawyers. They might have actually done more damage to the world than any other group.
Posted by: Invictus at September 10, 2012 11:21 AM (OQpzc)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 10, 2012 11:21 AM (05RcU)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 10, 2012 11:22 AM (P7hip)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD you know you want me at September 10, 2012 11:22 AM (VtjlW)
Did you point out how incredibly racist that sounds?
My grandmother used to put butter on the peanut butter sammiches.
In some parts of the country you have to. My mom grew up in Wyoming and there if you don't butter the bread it turns into a cracker in about 20 seconds. She put butter then mayo on sandwiches, not out of some desire to give cardiac distress but so the bread was edible.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 10, 2012 11:22 AM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 10, 2012 11:23 AM (mg08E)
is Black Raspberry jelly racist ?
is Blackberry jelly racist ?
is Concord Grape jelly racist ?
is Currant jelly racist ?
is Guava jellyracist ?
is Mint Flavor Apple jelly racist ?
is Mixed Fruit jelly racist ?
is Red Raspberry jelly racist ?
is Strawberry jelly racist ?
Posted by: Sinclair Lewis at September 10, 2012 11:23 AM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Soona at September 10, 2012 11:24 AM (tchi9)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 10, 2012 11:24 AM (r4wIV)
We're back to this meme I've noticed where they've been told their whole lives that white people are all born rich and have everything handed to them, and no problems after that.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:25 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 10, 2012 11:25 AM (QF8uk)
Brown Rice
Black Beans
Spanish Rice
And listed on the menu as an item that is served every day?
(Or as I would phrase it, every fucking day)
PB&J!
And I don't think that stands for Pork Bacon and Jerky.
Fucking retards.
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 11:25 AM (R18D0)
No. But I did point out "You do realize the math is the same, right? Whether it's 28 dominoes or 52 playing cards, the math works the same way."
He assured me "it's different." No, he didn't mean the math (at least I hope not) but that, for some reason, his students just couldn't do it if he talked about cards, but were just fine if they talked about dominoes.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 10, 2012 11:25 AM (8y9MW)
Not until you watch the videos from our honeymoon! They're HAWT! Or else you're just a hater!
Posted by: Brad and his husband Shawn had a FABULOUS time! at September 10, 2012 11:25 AM (VMcoS)
Posted by: ET at September 10, 2012 11:25 AM (s72/N)
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 11:26 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: Theodoric of York at September 10, 2012 11:26 AM (e8kgV)
“Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’
"My step-dad used to make us Underwood Deviled-Dog sandwiches. Does that count?"
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 10, 2012 11:27 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: joeindc44 will boo your chosen deity on TV some day too at September 10, 2012 11:27 AM (QxSug)
That sounds tasty, actually. If you cure the pork into ham. No, he didn't mean the math (at least I hope not) but that, for some reason, his students just couldn't do it if he talked about cards, but were just fine if they talked about dominoes.
Did he affect an ebonics accent and hand them grape drink and fried chicken so they'd feel more at home too? What a slug.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 10, 2012 11:27 AM (r4wIV)
FFS. Next February, cancel the viewing of the Tupac videos and bring in a bunch of cheap decks and teach 'em how to play rummy.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:28 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Countrysquire at September 10, 2012 11:29 AM (QB3JR)
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 11:29 AM (R18D0)
I thought we are supposed to be...'color blind'.
But the Leftists keep pushing this 'color-coded' set of sensitivities that we are supposed to observe...
So, how does this work?
If you have trained yourself to be color blind....then how do you know which set of special sensitivities to apply to whom?
Posted by: wheatie at September 10, 2012 11:30 AM (6OdwW)
@204 - we had to cope with that when my older daughter went through pre-school.
There was a kid at the school, not in her grade, not in her room, but at the pre-school, that was deathly allergic to peanuts. So, while that child was there, no one could bring peanut products of any sort to the school, out of fear that, as a two-year-old, somehow another child might leave behind an errant Ritz Bitz in the lunch area, then this girl might find it and eat it off the floor.
Which I can be somewhat compassionate about. Have a kid with special food needs is a challenge. I already understood that, because, as the father of my finicky little girl, the only sammich I could reliably send her to preschool with and know she would eat was a PB&J. Baloney? NO! Cold cuts? NO! Cheese? NO! So, my only solution was to send her to preschool that year with only-jelly sammiches. Which, as a four-year-old, she LURVED. And, as a parent, I could only make up for by making sure the other meals she got were extra protein-y...? Were balanced to make up for her twice-weekly sugar-sammich.
Far be it from me to deny another kid social interaction, but really, at what point as a parent do you realize "Hey, wow, this is gonna wind up being a huge inconvenience for the other 99 families that go to this place. Maybe we'll just schedule some more playdates with friends instead, or come and pick her up and take her out for lunchtime..." That's what Mrs. Reason would have done.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 11:30 AM (l2max)
Scott is a Title One school, where 88 percent of students receive free- or reduced-price lunch
When they start paying for their lunches, then they can bitch about how racist the menu is. Otherwise, first date rule applies: unless you're chipping in, no complaining.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 10, 2012 11:32 AM (kdS6q)
Color-blindness is now the worst form of racism.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™, Team MATH at September 10, 2012 11:32 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Gem at September 10, 2012 11:33 AM (zw+pb)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 10, 2012 11:34 AM (RZ8pf)
The more these idiot enlightened liberals spout all this nonsense, the more white parents and their students flee these big-city school systems for suburbia, or private school, or home-school.
The poster above who mentioned her friend trying to enroll her child in the LA system, and giving up and going private school instead, happens all the time.
The Chicago Public Schools is less than 10% white. Considering all the consent decrees involve eye-droppering out those white children to achieve diversity, CPS and the other big city systems are failing miserably at it. The fights over how to achieve "diversity" in the face of those demographics would be amusing if it weren't so pathetic.
Posted by: Boots at September 10, 2012 11:35 AM (neKzn)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD you know you want me at September 10, 2012 03:22 PM (VtjlW)
Bless you, dear leader of the post SMOD Alextopia, for trying. I do have multiple tabs open, two of them COULD be used for work, none of them are or have been used today.
Posted by: BCochran1981 at September 10, 2012 11:36 AM (da5Wo)
I thought we are supposed to be...'color blind'.
Posted by: wheatie
That's color visually-impaired, you racist.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at September 10, 2012 11:36 AM (kdS6q)
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 11:36 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at September 10, 2012 11:37 AM (izA2D)
"He assured me "it's different." No, he didn't mean the math (at least I hope not) but that, for some reason, his students just couldn't do it if he talked about cards, but were just fine if they talked about dominoes."
You know what totally made algebra easy for me?
The year that they got new textbooks, and the word problems included more diverse names.
FOIL completely clicked for me once I was using it in a word-problem for Lupe.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 11:38 AM (l2max)
You just offended everyone with visual impairments, you vile fucker.
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 11:38 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: Crom at September 10, 2012 11:40 AM (1WKq7)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at September 10, 2012 11:40 AM (2jQGY)
With this kind of crap infesting the schools, no wonder the kids don't learn anything. Who has time to teach math when there's ridiculousity to dwell upon...for hours and hours...and hours...
Mental masturbation: It's not just for Ace any more!
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK at September 10, 2012 11:41 AM (7v5Ct)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 10, 2012 11:41 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke
You up for another staph infection?
Posted by: that dick that just ain't right at September 10, 2012 11:42 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: moki at September 10, 2012 11:43 AM (dZmFh)
“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.”
Because if there is anything that children LOVE it is to be singled out as different in a room of other children.
Just wait for that scarred kid to get home and tell momma that the teacher asked him to tell the entire class what he eats instead of PB&J.
BOOM GOES THE LAWSUIT DYNAMITE!
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 11:43 AM (l2max)
To combat racism in our schools, all math problems will now be expressed through interpretive dance.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at September 10, 2012 11:44 AM (4df7R)
"How 'bout we just label EVERYTHING as racist or non-PC and save time that way."
Patience! I only have so many lines in each column, you know...
Posted by: Toure at September 10, 2012 11:44 AM (l2max)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at September 10, 2012 11:44 AM (r4wIV)
Posted by: HeatherRadish
Is my coffin rolling downhill or is it just me rolling over in my grave?
Posted by: Martin Fucking Luther King Jr., bitches at September 10, 2012 11:46 AM (R18D0)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 10, 2012 11:46 AM (XvHmy)
I'm fairly convinced that the entire government-school concept was invented as a kind of enormous make-work, tax-and-spend project.
Genuine learning and smarts-development is a rare and incidental occurrence. The main purpose of public school is daytime-containment of young people, and (of course) a pretext to tax the shit out of people to subsidize a large, useless group of ne'er-do-wells.
See also: every other bureaucracy ever created.
Posted by: Phinn at September 10, 2012 11:47 AM (oFH2D)
Posted by: Boomer Redneque at September 10, 2012 11:48 AM (gKK7k)
Posted by: Jean at September 10, 2012 11:48 AM (X6eYN)
Posted by: moki at September 10, 2012 11:48 AM (dZmFh)
Also, just to make everyone still reading this jealous...
Best thing ever - Mrs. Reason's French-Toast Grilled PB & Banana Sandwich.
With a drizzle of honey.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 11:49 AM (l2max)
Posted by: RioBravo at September 10, 2012 11:49 AM (eEfYn)
All I got to say is that liberals apparently think that Somali and Hispanic children are:
1) Not American; and
2) Are unaware that they are, in fact, living in America; and
3) That they would be traumatized by that horrifying revalation.
It's kind of like how liberals suggest that minorities are too incompetant to manage to obtain a valid ID for voting. Well, I guess they're right on this one - if you consider "dead people" and "pets" as minorities.
Posted by: Optimizer at September 10, 2012 11:50 AM (As94z)
Posted by: Stu-22 at September 10, 2012 11:50 AM (AiYlm)
"270 Also, just to make everyone still reading this jealous...
Best thing ever - Mrs. Reason's French-Toast Grilled PB Banana Sandwich.
With a drizzle of honey."
Perhaps I speak only for myself, but doesn't "bacon" have to be on the list of ingredients to impress people in here? ;-)
Posted by: Optimizer at September 10, 2012 11:53 AM (As94z)
"He assured me "it's different." No, he didn't mean the math (at least I hope not) but that, for some reason, his students just couldn't do it if he talked about cards, but were just fine if they talked about dominoes."
OK.
But what if they have to multiply meters?
GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 11:53 AM (TULs6)
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 11:54 AM (TULs6)
Posted by: Randall Hoven at September 10, 2012 11:54 AM (zaAvx)
Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at September 10, 2012 11:55 AM (RZ8pf)
Posted by: MrCaniac at September 10, 2012 11:55 AM (1grxW)
moki - true. I guess I just wasn't expecting it here, in my neighborhood.
And I do think that eventually the school did have a talk with the family. It was only for one year while my daughter was there, and by the time that my son was going to the preschool, the NO PEANUTZ! mandate was no longer enforced. Maybe by then either the parents moved her somewhere else, or she was deemed old enough to know better than to eat food that wasn't her's, or something.
I mean, this was a voluntary preschool thing, not a public school required-to-attend place.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 11:56 AM (q/kmn)
140 I feel bad for kids of today (immigrant or not). They will never know the taste of a Twinkie
----------------------------
The last I checked, the unions that produce and ship and deliver Twinkies were going to bankrupt the company, and there wouldn't be any more Twinkies to ban.
Posted by: Boots at September 10, 2012 11:56 AM (neKzn)
"273 I had PBJ on toast for breakfast this morning. The jam was black raspberry. Does that make my breakfast more racist, or less?"
More. Because, "Shut Up!"
Posted by: Optimizer at September 10, 2012 11:56 AM (As94z)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 10, 2012 11:57 AM (XvHmy)
Posted by: The Political Hat at September 10, 2012 11:58 AM (XvHmy)
"Curse whoever posted the damn "it's peanut butter jelly time" sentence upthreaed because now that damn commercial is running through my brain on an endless loop. "
Here let me help you. Google "Adventure Time Banana Dance."
No, no. Shh. You can thank me later.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 11:59 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: Will Be Taking Applications and Assimilating The Love-slaves at September 10, 2012 11:59 AM (kXoT0)
Anyone who purposely puts a child in the LAUSD should have just had the abortion and called it a mercy killing.
Posted by: epobirs at September 10, 2012 12:00 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: moki at September 10, 2012 12:01 PM (dZmFh)
Posted by: Elvis Presley at September 10, 2012 12:01 PM (1grxW)
1) Not American; and
2) Are unaware that they are, in fact, living in America; and
3) That they would be traumatized by that horrifying revalation.
It's kind of like how liberals suggest that minorities are too incompetant to manage to obtain a valid ID for voting. Well, I guess they're right on this one - if youconsider "dead people" and "pets" as minorities. Posted by: Optimizer
4) Somali and Hispanic children are incapable of learning that American children eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Hell, I've never been to Somalia but I know that Somali children eat pirate shit like hardtack and grog.
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 12:01 PM (R18D0)
I had cream cheese schmeared on pumpernickle toast this morning.
In light of this thread, and all the explainin' for my little puddin' filled head, that's probably the most raaaayciss thing possible.
Quick! Someone sign me up for penance at an Obama phone bank!
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 12:01 PM (q/kmn)
Posted by: RioBravo at September 10, 2012 12:02 PM (eEfYn)
"But the school was not going to force everyone to accomodate the child, and eventually her mother moved her to public school, where that happened.
I think mom may have been a bit of a power tripper."
WHAT?!!?!?! THE ENTIRE SCHOOL HAS NOT BENT TO MY WILL???
Posted by: power-trippin' peanut hatin' mommy at September 10, 2012 12:03 PM (q/kmn)
PB&J is an example of "white privilege"?? I just ate a cheese steak, does that make me a genocidal monster?? I hope so because that would be awsome!!
Posted by: stillers at September 10, 2012 12:04 PM (g9Wm2)
Anyone who purposely puts a child in the LAUSD should have just had the abortion and called it a mercy killing.
That's white privilege! You have to communicate multiculturally.
Another way would be to say: ‘Americans have abortions with unwanted kids, do you have anything like that?’ and then let them make suggestions, like stoning or throwing a sack of babies in a river.
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 12:04 PM (TULs6)
Posted by: moki at September 10, 2012 12:05 PM (dZmFh)
moki - yes, your child sounds like one to be proud of.
I've noticed at my kids' own private school that "kids worth being proud of" seem to be rather thick on the premises. Like a lush bumper-crop of them seem to fill the hallways.
A very different experience than my step-daughter's high school years, which were completed at the public school near her father, at her own choosing.
Funny, that.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 12:07 PM (q/kmn)
Posted by: Dang at September 10, 2012 12:08 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: Will Be Taking Applications and Assimilating The Love-slaves at September 10, 2012 12:09 PM (kXoT0)
"THat's right, unicorn butts."
That post needed a "NOT SAFE FOR TELECONFERENCE-ATTENDEES" warning on it.
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 12:09 PM (q/kmn)
Teacher - "Kids here in America eat Peanut-Butter and Jelly sandwiches. What do you eat back home?"
North Korean Child - "...eat?"
Posted by: reason at September 10, 2012 12:11 PM (q/kmn)
Any reasonably bright child is into going to be fazed by a problem using an unfamiliar foodstuff as an object. It's math, not recipes for Home Ec. If I have fifteen objects, it doesn't matter if they're PBandJ sandwiches, bowl's of lark's vomit soup, veeblegetzers, or whatever else nonsensical item that might be ingested. IT'S FRIGGIN' MATH! If your kid doesn't get it, the problem is far less likely to be an unfamiliarity with the food and much more likely that the child is lacking in the IQ attribute.
Posted by: epobirs at September 10, 2012 12:16 PM (kcfmt)
Posted by: moki at September 10, 2012 12:18 PM (dZmFh)
Posted by: elizabethe at September 10, 2012 12:19 PM (9MyQd)
Posted by: Jenny Tries Too Hard at September 10, 2012 12:23 PM (FIYvq)
If an American moved to France and demanded the school serve his kids Big Macs, he'd be labeled an "ugly American" for his arrogance.
Posted by: Warden at September 10, 2012 12:23 PM (HzhBE)
Posted by: Tim the Enchanter at September 10, 2012 12:24 PM (izA2D)
moki @ 303
Because PB & J sammiches are sweet and tasty to most kids. Unless they've got one of those peanut allergies, and then they die, I guess.
I've eaten all kinds of meals around the world, and the biggest problem you usually have is that "local" food contains some kind of bacteria that the locals are used to, and your (my?) American GI tract throws a ruckus over it for a few days, until it gets accustomed to it.
Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch (fake Internet person) writes..... at September 10, 2012 12:24 PM (sJTmU)
“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.”
Doesn't that imply that they are not Americans? Isn't that racist? To assume that they are so foreign that they don't get what a PB&J is? That is absolutely racist!!!! In fact, that is racial profiling if you pick a kid or two out and give them a special question just based on the color of their skin!
My guess is they came here to eat PB&J!!!!
At a hotel in Southern Utah, near the Grand Canyon, we were eating the hotel breakfast and I felt like peanut butter and apples. I doubt most Americans eat peanut butter and apples for breakfast, or at all, but I do. I used the plastic knives to cut up the apple and scooped peanut butter with it... one of my favorite breakfasts...
Then a family of Germans (? it sounded like they were speaking German) copied me! They were in America, eating an American breakfast!!!
I bet they had no idea what to do with those little tubs of peanut butter. Now they do!
Who knows I may have set off a big fad in Germany!!!
Posted by: petunia at September 10, 2012 12:28 PM (SUQOI)
"143weren't Sandwiches invented by the Earl of Sandwich? It's what some limey I worked with told me once, and to make a "proper" sandwich you must but butter on the bread first. So, shouldn't the Choomer and Chief have sent all samiches back to the UK along with the Churchill bust? "
You don't say!!!! My mother always buttered the bread first! I hate soggy bread, but I don't butter first any more... too many extra calories. I thought it was just my mom!
My mother's grandmother was an immigrant from England, so the tradition made it through to four generations before dying out.
Posted by: petunia at September 10, 2012 12:34 PM (SUQOI)
Posted by: Boots at September 10, 2012 03:56 PM (neKzn)
.......................Hostess goes in and out of bankruptcy with regularity.
Posted by: Invictus at September 10, 2012 12:34 PM (OQpzc)
Posted by: moki at September 10, 2012 12:39 PM (dZmFh)
Were I to travel to Sowdi Arabia, I would not expect pulled pork b-b-q sandwiches to be on the menu.
Welcome to America. Now Speak English. Here's your hot dog. On a bun. An American sandwich. Deal with it.
Posted by: The AoSHQ '&' Preservation Society at September 10, 2012 12:40 PM (26i79)
If you wanted your culture, you should have stayed where you were and performed the hard work we did in America to change the aspects of your culture with which you did not disagree.. It's not about your culture in America it's about ours. Collectively. It's also not about changing our culture. Not only is that insulting but selfish to every other person who came before you.
When my forefathers came to this country, they came for the opportunities and values uniquely American. They changed how they dressed, spoke and lived their lives because they wanted to become Americans. They didn't want to be foreigners who just happened to live in America. Nor did they take handouts. None, no matter how poor they were.
To be certain, they kept some of their traditions, but never tried to impose those upon their neighbors. They didn't want to change the Constitution, because they felt it was the most magnificent document every authored. Nor did they want cradle to grave guarantees- except one. Continued opportunity.
Posted by: Exile at September 10, 2012 12:47 PM (GGCsk)
To properly be a "Sandwich" in the tradition of the Earl, one must eat the confection while sitting on the head of a turbaned mohammedan and whipping a mic.
That's why it's so difficult for Somalis to count sandwiches, it draws back toward emotional trauma they sustained in their homeland, where rich white Sandwichers with cigarette holders would ride their aunts around the yard whipping the children for sport.
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 12:49 PM (TULs6)
If you wanted your culture, you should have stayed where you were
You're like the 5th person to take the angle.
Why the hell are you ragging on the Somali kid just because his teachers say it's racist to give him a PB&J? He probably wasn't complaining.
Posted by: entropy at September 10, 2012 12:52 PM (TULs6)
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Posted by: Natasha at September 10, 2012 01:01 PM (jU5uf)
That's their fucking problem. They are in OUR country, not us in theirs.
Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at September 10, 2012 01:05 PM (Ouyc1)
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at September 10, 2012 01:22 PM (VMcoS)
Whoever heard of someone with a PB&J superiority complex? This is just ridiculous.
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Posted by: fugazi at September 10, 2012 03:10 PM (4bvZp)
Can we get a read out from the rules committee crawling around whoopie's 'brain'?
btw: Trying holding out a PBJ on WHITE bread and not letting go when a few somali or migrant farm kids try to take it for lunch. That would make for a good video.
You say you don't like PBJ? Fine with me. You just not hungry enough. I can wait.
Posted by: Blacksmith8✡ at September 10, 2012 03:26 PM (O2Gu6)
Say wha? Racist!!!
So now offering José or Emiko a PB&J is more racist than thinking these children would rather have a taco or sushi for lunch? Because, although they reside and go to school in America, José and Emiko obviously live in ethnic ghettos and have never even heard of a PB&J. Seriously? (What about last week, when that was “racial/ethnic stereotyping”?)
How stupid does one have to be to buy into this vile nonsense? *Rhetorical*
Posted by: Jix at September 10, 2012 03:35 PM (VDKgR)
Posted by: pj at September 10, 2012 03:50 PM (DQHjw)
This country is shot. It's whole focus is on silly insane shit like this. A noble experiment but it's over.
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Posted by: LuigiCorelli at September 11, 2012 10:43 AM (hCoUE)
Let this idiot principal know what you think. Contact her!
Scott school phone number: (503) 916-6369
Verenice GutierrezÂ’s email: vgutierr@pps.net
Source for contact information:
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools/scott/317.htm
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