Posted on 04/19/2018 11:26:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ok, I have to admit that he fooled me too.
Liberal coffee and beverage corporation Starbucks has had a really, really tough week by anyone’s standards. The firestorm after the arrest of two black loiterers at a Philadelphia store led to the usual weeping and gnashing of teeth by racial grievance mongers who quickly bullied the chain into announcing a shutdown of around 8,000 of their stores for mandatory racial bias training.
A viral video by a black man who goes by the handle Hotep Jesus made the rounds in which the man – whose real name is Bryan Sharpe – scored a free cup of Starbucks coffee by going into a location, asking for free coffee and saying that the company was racist.
Starbucks is racist https://t.co/fPf3ERMlXX
— Hotep Jesus 🧠 (@VibeHi) April 15, 2018
It was just an epic troll though and Sharpe appeared on Fox’s Laura Ingraham’s show to cop to the fakery as well as to denounce liberals for their exploitation of black people as victims to advance an agenda.
According to Mr. Sharpe:
“I am sick and tired of liberals using black people and making us look like victims, making us look soft with their liberal dogma, It is disgusting.”
While Starbucks was the recipient of another bag over the head kick in the nuts that will only lead to MORE trolling, the George Soros-David Brock hate organization was already on the case trying to smear Sharpe as an anti-Semite which is very hypocritical considering that the left never denounces the real anti-Semites in their own house like Rep. Keith Ellison and Women’s March leader Tamika Mallory.
it is just delightful to continue to watch Starbucks squirming like this after years of a holier than thou approach that has sold a lot of their overpriced bitter brew to liberals – let them choke on it now!
He didn’t fool me. I could tell from his demeanor and the look on his face that he was goofing on Starbucks. I thought it was hilarious yesterday, and I still think it’s hilarious.
1060 AM Philadelphia reported today that one of the black men arrested said he didn’t think it was a racial issue, so that shows how much of this “activism” is astro-turfed.
If they went out of business it would be a plus.
Bkmrk.
Hahaha. So StarCucks caved to a angry mob that didn’t even include all the people that were the reason for the rent-a-mob.
Eight years ago I would have challenged that, today, not at all.
I was given Starbucks cards by my sons in 2006, and predictably, I became hooked and actually enjoy my drink of choice.
But I was always irritated by the "holier than thou" attitude of company management who basked in the glory of a very charitable and "green" company, at their customers expense, without their consent.
Now they have spent millions$ to mollify the black thug culture and their implicit threat of violence blackmail, and I have reached by limit.
A several hundred percent increase in the cost of my drink of choice since 2006 has reached the tipping point, and they can continue their virtue signaling* without me. If I could give up cigarettes, I can certainly give up overpriced coffee!
Good luck, Starbucks, it's been nice while your scam lasted. I'm out of there.
*Virtue signalling is the conspicuous expression of moral values done primarily with the intent of enhancing standing within a social group [or society as a whole.
The term was first used in signalling theory, to describe any behavior that could be used to signal virtue—especially piety among the religious. In recent years, the term has become more commonly used as a pejorative characterization by commentators to criticize what they regard as empty, or superficial support of certain political [or social] views, and also used within groups to criticize their own members for valuing outward appearance over substantive action.[at the expense of others]
I thought the Barista was wearing a shirt with Russian on the sleeve. Was trying to make it out but it says "Humanity United".
Very ironic.
I did, too, at first. I was trying to translate it in to any words I know and was failing miserably. Then I realized that from the perspective in the photo the letters were upside down and backwards.
Leftism is a mental disorder. Now Starcucks (as you say!) will have every homeless person coming in to urinate and annoy the paying customers. They deserve what they get. I hope the company goes under.
Try Silver Bridge Coffee (if you can find it). Many different blends and I think better than Starbucks.
These charades are part of an orchestrated effort to suppress any honest discussion about race. While Obama caused plenty of harm to this country, and Trump is slowly undoing it, the most important legacy of Obama will be the preservation of race- and gender-based affirmative action quotas (which were in serious jeopardy from a legal standpoint). Eric Holder’s BS about an “honest discussion about race” ensured these policies would be enshrined in law - while officially they don’t even exist (outright quota systems). The simple fact is if you don’t hire the government-mandated quota, you will pay millions and be forced to put many useless tokens on your payroll as penance/reparations.
Here in NJ they’ve dropped Hispanic men from the list of “preferred victims” for police jobs, as they performed well without help and took the set-aside seats for blacks and women of all colors. In the private sector I’ve seen whole offices transition from black to brown, and that situation won’t be tolerated for long.
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