Posted on 03/20/2015 11:39:15 AM PDT by Steelfish
The Race Conversation Starbucks Wants You to Have
by MONA CHAREN March 20, 2015
Unfortunately, it’s likely to be just as “honest” as all the previous ones. Starbucks is hoping to lead a national conversation about race. According to a video released by founder Howard Schultz, Starbucks barristas are encouraged to scrawl “race together” on coffee cups before placing them in the hands of customers. This hollow bit of moral exhibitionism is supposed to encourage “compassion,” “honesty,” “empathy,” and “love.”
Does Starbucks sell caffeine-free compassion? Each and every time we’re hectored to engage in an “honest conversation” about race, it’s a sham. What’s wanted is not honesty, but confession of sin by white people and expressions of pain from blacks and others. Decade after decade, despite vastly diminishing levels of white racism (and the rapid growth of non-white populations), we are told that the old stain of racism continues to poison the lives of minorities. By encouraging that fiction, Starbucks is subtracting from racial understanding.
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Hmm...the usual marks aren’t taking this little con very well, are we? BTT
I miss those Ole and Lena jokes. The Sven and Ole jokes are almost as good. Whenever I see somebody with a license tag from Minnesota, Iowa or the Dakotas, I ask them to tell me one. The kids look at me like I’m weird. Older people act like I’m family. Glad to hear they still tell them.
CEO of Starbucks might be getting a grant from the Federal government. I wonder if Obama administration is giving Starbuck’s a federal grant to have the national conversation on race.
CEO of Starbucks might be getting a grant from the Federal government. I wonder if Obama administration is giving Starbuck’s a federal grant to have the national conversation on race.
Like in, "I Remember Mama" one of my all-time, cry-every-time, favorite movies! It was the lutefisk recipe that got the famous writer and recipe collector to read Katryn's stories! There's something wonderful about the people from the old country, and the wisdom they brought with them! Congratulations on your heritage, and may God bless you!
I feel really sorry for the people at the PoS who have to do this. They’re probably going to get a lot of guff from all sides. Wonder where the managers will be?
I was telling my daughter about how the demographics of America is going, where in 2050(?) I think it was, that whites will be in the minority.
“Do you think someday we’ll all just be one “race”?”
“I suppose so - given enough time. At least in America if people can truly be a melting pot as opposed to sticking to their own groups and cultures like so many new immigrants do.”
“Well, at least there won’t be any more racism.”
“Oh - there will be, I think it is part of our sinful nature. In fact some blacks look down on other blacks that aren’t dark enough, and vice-versa I suppose.”
On the other hand, I think America was doing pretty well on moving towards King’s dream of the color of ones skin not meaning anything. I mean heck, we elected a black President.
Of course, by electing him it seems he turns everything into a race issue. My kids were doing really well at not judging someone by the color of their skin when they were little. Today - not so much.
An aside. My grandparents (from Norway) ended up in Minneapolis. My dad’s did a good job of speaking Norwegian around the kids and learning English, so my dad was pretty fluent in both.
My mom’s parents saw that as a problem with their neighbors (lots of Scandahoovians) so they only spoke english around the kids. My mom learned Norwegian, but not as well as my dad.
So obviously they stuck together after they first came over (the Sons of Norway Glee Club, etc.) But it does seem like there is a lot less integration today, with newcomers NEVER learning english, etc.
Missing from the list of questions: “Have you ever been robbed/assaulted/raped by a member of a different race?”
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