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[unit731]

[Flashermac]

[HSTEACH]

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich is Racist, Says Portland School Official

 

 

Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?

 

That’s right.

 

Apparently, it’s because people in some cultures don’t eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune:

 

“Take the peanut butter sandwich, a seemingly innocent example a teacher used in a lesson last school year,†the Tribune said.

 

“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?†Gutierrez asked. “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.â€

 

…The Tribune noted that the school started the new year with “intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives,†to help educators understand their own “white privilege,†in order to “change their teaching practices to boost minority students’ performance.â€

 

"Last Wednesday, the first day of the school year for staff, for example, the first item of business for teachers at Scott School was to have a Courageous Conversation — to examine a news article and discuss the ‘white privilege’ it conveys,†the Tribune added.

 

Gutierrez completed a week-long seminar called “Coaching for Educational Equity,†a program the Tribune says focuses “on race and how it affects life.†She also serves on an administrative committee that focuses on systematic racism.

 

“Our focus school and our Superintendent’s mandate that we improve education for students of color, particularly Black and Brown boys, will provide us with many opportunities to use the protocols of Courageous Conversations in data teams, team meetings, staff meetings, and conversations amongst one another,†she said in a letter to staff.

 

Next time you’re in the bread aisle at the grocery store, you may want to think twice. Sensitive liberal educators are now recommending the “torta†or the “pita†as a more culturally inclusive alternative.

 

Now that you’ve been made aware of the evil of PB&J, there’s only one question left to answer: Is white bread more racist than whole wheat?

 

 

http://www.thecolleg...com/post/15414/

 

 

I have a suggestion for all the complainers who criticize the way we do things in the US, buy a ticket and go back to the shithole you came from.

[Flashermac]

Whatever happened to immigrants adapting?

[cavanami]

...no worries, all the illegals will be legal very soon, IMO...

[unit731]

 

 

[BelgianBoy]

Whatever happened to immigrants adapting?

when immigrants start imposing, its called conquering.....

[unit731]

Solicit money/goods from poorly paid Walmart workers to assist the other poorly paid Walmart workers.

 

 

 

"A Walmart in Canton, Ohio is making sure all of its employees will get to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner this year by asking less needy employees for food donations for their fellow workers.

A sign affixed to one of a series of bins in an employee backroom reads, "Please donate food items so associates in need can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner," according to a report by cleveland.com."

 

LINK

[Flashermac]

A Progressive Pope is Driving the Wingnuts Batty

 

 

As Pope Francis comes more and more out of the Progressive Closet he begins to gain more and more pushback from the Rightwing who have long claimed that their Unrepentant Greed was Godly.

 

Unfortunately it isn't, and the Pope has been most clear on this:

 

“As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems,†the pope said in the 224-page document that essentially serves as his official platform.

 

And the response has been truly amazing. For example Palin's overreaction to the Pope's statements on Twitter actually made her do something she seems to never done before. (Except for one other time to John McCain for possibly, maybe, making him LOSE!)

 

Apologize.

 

She didn't apologize for TrooperGate. She didn't apologize for "Refudiate". She didn't apologize for quitting in the middle of her Term as Governor of Alaska. She didn't apologize for defending Dr. Laura's N-Word use with "Don't Retreat, Relaod!" She didn't apologize for her BLOOD LIBEL accusations.

 

But she apologized to the Pope. I think something unique and different is going on here.

 

The Pope's comments apparently got deeply under the skin of Fox Business Host Stuart Varney.

 

“Capitalism, in my opinion, is a liberator,†he said. “The free choice of millions of people is the essence of freedom. In my opinion, society benefits most when people are free to pursue their own self-interest. I know that sounds like a contradiction, but it is not. When individuals are free, we collectively are better off in every way, financially and spiritually.â€

 

It doesn't seem to matter to Varney that the Pope didn't criticize "People's Freedom or Self-Interest" - he criticize The Markets. He criticized the manipulation of those markets using financial speculation. It's not an accident that Varney gets this wrong, because he's a knave. A lapdog of the Markets. His job is to make sure that his True Religion - Unfeterred Greed - is never questioned, never criticized and if it is that persons veracity and character has to be Destroyed.

 

It just becomes a little difficult when that person - is the Holy Pontiff.

 

See how he tries to rewrite and redefine the Pope's word for him.

 

“I go to church to save my soul,†Varney said. “It’s got nothing to do with my vote. Pope Francis has linked the two. He has offered direct criticism of a specific political system. He has characterized negatively that system. I think he wants to influence my politics.â€

 

A political system? He criticized a Political System? No actually, he didn't. He criticized a Financial System, by putting that system into a Moral Context. A context in which it is sorely, severely lacking. Politics is about how people make choices in who their Political Leaders will be. In this case Varney is confusing Politics with Finances, and not hardly an accident.

 

For years we've been hearing from the Right-wing how the U.S. is a "Christian Nation". How we should and must let our Christian Value guide how we vote, and how we govern. That such considerations are what drives the anti-Choice movement, and the Prayer-In-Schools movement and the Creationist/Anti-Science movement - yet when the Head of the Largest Christian Organization in the World says that our financial systems should have a moral component.

 

Heads Start to Explode.

 

And what better head is there to do a Scanners than the Big Fat Head of Rush Limbaugh.

 

On his Wednesday radio show, Rush Limbaugh admitted being “befuddled†by the harsh words about “unfettered capitalism†released this week by Pope Francis.

 

But the new pronouncement, the pope’s latest Evangelii Gadium, or Joy of the Gospel, was a surprisingly frontal attack on capitalism, with Francis calling it a form of tyranny.

 

That didn’t sit well with Limbaugh. “Somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him,†Rush said. “This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope."

 

The Pope is speaking "Pure Marxism"? Somebody has "gotten to him"? Written it "For Him"? Why, because a Holy Man can't consider that Capitalism can be dangerous? Certainly he couldn't actually Mean what he says, let alone Know what it Means. He just has to be incompetent or lying, because if he's not -- well, that's too much even for Limbaugh to consider.

 

All he's saying is that the Markets should be Regulated so that their tendency to cause massive financial harm is blunted, by things such as Glass-Steagal or to a lesser sense Dodd-Frank - but the bottom line is that the Pope, just as he was with his criticism of the obsession with anti-Gay and anti-Choice efforts - is SPOT ON Economically.

 

As described by the Guardian.

 

'The pope’s screed on “the economy of exclusion and inequality†will disappoint those who considers themselves free-market capitalists, but they would do well to listen to the message. Francis gives form to the emotion and injustice of post-financial-crisis outrage in a way that has been rare since Occupy Wall Street disbanded. There has been a growing chorus of financial insiders – from the late Merrill Lynch executive Herb Allison to organizations like Better Markets – it’s time for a change in how we approach capitalism. It’s not about discarding capitalism, or hating money or profit; it’s about pursuing profits ethically, and rejecting the premise that exploitation is at the center of profit. When 53% of financial executives say they can’t get ahead without some cheating, even though they want to work for ethical organizations, there’s a real problem.'

 

This Pope has begun to let the truth about the Worship of Money out of the bag. Yes, it is Idolatry, and it does need to be reined in. That is of course the last thing the Right-wing wants, because it would grant legitimacy of many progressive efforts to reduce income inequality and to improve the lot of the working class and the middle-class.

 

This is not what the Conservative-Right cares about. They claim to, but they don't really, and the more Pope Francis talks about it - the more it makes them squirm.

 

Certainly this is sometime to consider as we all prepare to sit down an break bread with our Wingnut Relatives this Thanksgiving. Yes, Progressive Values actually are Godly Values, they are following in the footsteps of He who showed us the way, progressivism is following in the truth path of Jesus of Nazareth toward charity and forgiveness.

 

Pope Francis is telling the truth, and the Right just can't stop themselves from listening, even if they don't want to.

 

 

http://www.dailykos....etail=facebook#

[gobbledonk]

Watching the madness at a Walmart in one of the southern states this morning, I was reminded of Jack Nicholson's immortal performance as The Joker in the second Batman movie.

 

This town needs an enema !

 

When a grown man thinks its OK to charge the 'scrum' of women and children huddled around a clearance item, you know the zombie epidemic cant be far away. The cops had to drag other muppets off one another when fights broke out - can only imagine the good times in the carpark later.