Are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches racist?

While being sensitive to racial and gender bias is important…....those first few paragraphs made absolutely no sense to me.

Not racist, but disgusting nonetheless.

Interesting article.

At first I thought it was a lot of hooey. Then I thought the sandwich thing was kind of cool: ’‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.” That’s really kind of cool…kids talking about diversity among and with their peers. But that doesn’t jive with “intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives”

I didn’t read another word past, “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.””

“White privilege” and “whiteness” are exactly why minorities are able to have exclusive groups that whites are not. Minorities band together to counter the fact that whites have an advantage because they are the majority. Around here we call her kind of talk “Telling it how it tells best.” Often times confused with lying.

It’s not a race thing.
It’s a culture thing.

America is not a race, people.

Portlandia is real!

okay, that’s the last one, I promise.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are food.

That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time. White people are so weird sometimes.

We ain’t weird @hug_of_war! We’re just trying to be sensitive, to the point of idiocy, see?

I happen to like peanut butter & jelly sandwiches, even as an adult. Do I think they’re racist? That’s got to be one of the most inane things I’ve heard in a long time.

@hug_of_war The teacher quoted in the article is not white.