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Kids are gonna be scared to even talk soon. Maybe that is the goal to keep em all quiet since the ridilin they try and drug em all up on isn't doing the job?
"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."
"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."
You have in your rush to condemn this "PC rubbish" actually missed what Ms. Guitierrez is saying. Here, let me help.
"Some cultures neither eat Sandwiches nor really know what they are so what we do in order to make sure we are listening to one another is to say "Here in America we often eat sandwiches, what does your culture eat?"
Learning about other cultures in a neutral way is how adults expand their world-view.
You have in your rush to condemn this "PC rubbish" actually missed what Ms. Guitierrez is saying. Here, let me help.
"Some cultures neither eat Sandwiches nor really know what they are so what we do in order to make sure we are listening to one another is to say "Here in America we often eat sandwiches, what does your culture eat?"
Learning about other cultures in a neutral way is how adults expand their world-view.
Ms Guitierrez was not asking the question to learn about cultures in a neutral way. She was asking the question through the prism of "white privilege".
Learning about other cultures and forwarding an agenda that enhances feelings of guilt or inferiority because somebody is white, are two different things.
You have in your rush to condemn this "PC rubbish" actually missed what Ms. Guitierrez is saying. Here, let me help.
"Some cultures neither eat Sandwiches nor really know what they are so what we do in order to make sure we are listening to one another is to say "Here in America we often eat sandwiches, what does your culture eat?"
Learning about other cultures in a neutral way is how adults expand their world-view.
No -- if these people really are into their own cultures, they would stay home and work on improving them so they would want to live in their own countries.
What would be better when the immigrants get upset because they never heard of bread and peanut butter is to give them an American history and culture lesson. Peanuts have a very interesting American history, it was the African slaves who ate them because they were a nutritious and cheap food source and they reminded them of some kind of food back in Africa. After the Civil War and food supplies were scare, the whites began to appreciate the peanuts also. George Washington Carver was an American inventor and he did a lot of work with peanuts.
Really what kind of immigrants are we getting now-a-days that they lack all curiousity about the culture of the country to which they are fleeing?
Really what kind of immigrants are we getting now-a-days that they lack all curiousity about the culture of the country to which they are fleeing?
Don't know. I am an immigrant. I have two Ph.D's from an Ivy League University and had a highly successful career early on in my life. To this day, I am eager to absorb new knowledge - it has worked well for me in the past and seems to enrich my life, still. That said, I have never felt like I was being put at a disadvantage by the presence of PB&J or Cheeseburgers, both of which were not part of my childhood. If anything, the ready availability of quintessential American food items helped me through many a night of intense studying and working.
Then again, I am decidedly white and consequently, I am apparently so racist that I simply cannot begin to comprehend the hateful message a PB&J sandwich sends to my fellow immigrants.
Kids are gonna be scared to even talk soon. Maybe that is the goal to keep em all quiet since the ridilin they try and drug em all up on isn't doing the job?
"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."
Ms Guitierrez was not asking the question to learn about cultures in a neutral way. She was asking the question through the prism of "white privilege".
Learning about other cultures and forwarding an agenda that enhances feelings of guilt or inferiority because somebody is white, are two different things.
Seconded.
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