Posted on 03/19/2015 12:19:11 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Starbucks just announced a new campaign inviting their customers to discuss race relations with baristas. The Seattle-based coffee company is asking employees to write “Race Together” on the side of customers’ cups, in an effort to engage them to discuss…well, their ethnicity. The campaign was sparked by the recent uptick in nationally-covered racially-charged tragedies, according to a Starbucks press release.
“What if we were to write ‘Race Together’ on every Starbucks cup, and that facilitated a conversation between you and our customers?” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says in a video message to partners. “And what if our customers as a result of that had a renewed level of understanding and sensitivity about the issue, and they themselves would spread that to their own sphere of influence?”
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So he thinks his customers are racist?
Race Together, while others wait in line.
I’ll discuss race with anyone
I’d like to see the barristas wearing hair nets and mouth covering masks if they are going to be talking over my open containers of coffee. Actually, I’d prefer it if the coffee was dispensed by a machine of unknown cleanliness.
Expresso for the ‘rat race.
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician as the knife he carries in his pocket. In the work here to be executed, the best effects may be produced by this maxim, and with peculiar facility. An extensive republic made up of lesser republics necessarily contains various sorts of people, distinguished by local and other interests and prejudices.
/Freneau “Rules”
These people are at work. I would probably be going to work, or coming home from work. They don’t have time to waste on a frivolous conversation and neither would I.
If I ever stopped at a Starbucks. Which I have never done.
I wouldn’t be caught in a Starbucks, their coffee stinks and their prices are outrageous!
What if we were to write “Guns Forever” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Stop the Knockout Game” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Stop Blaming Others” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Secure the Border” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Abortion killed 55 million Americans” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Transparent White House Ends FOIA Requests” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Michelle says this coffee is not good for you” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Hillary Lied, Emails Died” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “Six-plus years and Obama still blames Bush for everything” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “If your aunt had balls she’d be your uncle” on the side of the cup?
What if we were to write “It’s not a tax except when we argue it’s a tax” on the side of the cup?
I go to a coffee house to buy a cup of coffee, not discuss race, religion, or politics with the kid who takes my $5 for ten cents’ worth of weak beans.
I’d rather discuss tattoo and piercing options - the only subject about which they seem to know anything
I cannot imagine that a barista who probably hasn’t finished college yet is going to add much to my knowledge of race relations. And I would be p*ssed at them wasting my time.
I like the design of their drive-thru. McDonalds could take a lesson from that. At Mcdonalds they purposely make you drive around the entire building to get to the drive thru, and then you do another lap around to pick up the food. To make matters worse the drive thru splits into 2 lanes where you order and then there is ALWAYS conflict when the 2 lanes merge back into 1 before you pay, and people are always trying to get in front of the other car. Not the way to start the day, have lunch or end the day...
The derision little endeavor of theirs is going to manifest itself into a customer reaction that can be summed up in four words: “Heading to Dunkin’ Donuts.”
I’ve always suspected Starbucks was liberal but now this campaign proves it.
What if we were to write “American farmers should’ve picked their own cotton” on the side of the cup?
oh that’s goooooood. Will the Bariistas enjoy this kind of back and forth discussion even if it disagrees with their supposed kumbaya “we are the world” tripe?
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