Posted on 06/03/2018 12:33:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Your tax dollars aren’t the only thing supporting Planned Parenthood — proceeds from your daily coffee may be too! By now, Starbucks’s grande agenda on social issues isn’t a surprise to anyone, except maybe its CEO. Yesterday, in an interview with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Kevin Johnson seemed completely oblivious to Starbucks’s ongoing relationship with the abortion giant through its matching gift program.
For Johnson, it’s been a rocky few months at the head of one of America’s biggest brands. After an embarrassing scandal in Philadelphia, when a local employee had two African Americans arrested for sitting in their shop, the damage control was in full swing. Starbucks announced it was closing its 8,000 stores to have a “racial-bias education day” for its army of employees. But, our friend Alveda King says the company will have to do a lot more than that to end Starbucks’s bigotry. In an op-ed that’s gone viral, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. insists racism has been part of the company’s corporate identity long before the PR nightmare in April. She writes,
“Through its corporate donations, Starbucks contributes one of the most racist organizations in our nation’s history. Planned Parenthood, the largest single provider of abortions in the U.S., performs more than 300,000 terminations each year. Planned Parenthood operates the nation’s largest chain of abortion facilities, and almost 80 percent of its facilities are located in minority neighborhoods. About 13 percent of American women are black, but they have more than 35 percent of the abortions.”
Of course, conservatives have known about Starbucks’s ultra-liberal ties dating back to 2012, when then-CEO Howard Schultz told shareholders that redefining marriage really is “core to the Starbucks brand.” The company went on to sign a string of legal briefs for same-sex marriage, arguing at one point that customers who didn’t like it could take their business elsewhere. Some did.
Others broke their Starbucks habit two years ago when 2nd Vote released a list of more than three dozen companies who’ve been contributing to Planned Parenthood — either directly or through an employee matching gift program. Apart from the more than half-billion dollar haul from U.S. taxpayers, the group was raking in some hefty financial support from household names like Johnson & Johnson, Levi Strauss, Microsoft, Nike, Pepsi, Tostitos, and more.
After intense public pressure, at least five of those brands dropped their partnership: AT&T, Coca-Cola, Ford, Macy’s, and Xerox. Starbucks, one of the most politically liberal companies on the market, refused — a fact obviously lost on CEO Kevin Johnson. Three times on Tuesday, he denied any knowledge of the program in his interview with Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo.
Bartiromo: “I don’t know if you saw Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece op-ed in the Washington Examiner. And she said, ‘If Starbucks wants to end racism it will stop funding Planned Parenthood.’ Are you going to stop funding Planned Parenthood?”
Johnson: “Well I am not aware that we, we do fund Planned Parenthood. So. I haven’t read the op-ed and I can’t comment on that.”
Bartiromo: “OK.”
Johnson: “But, I am not aware that we do that.”
Bartiromo: “Well, Alveda King says [so]…
Johnson: “Well, I am not aware of it.”
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A few hours later, Starbucks corporate office released a statement admitting that there was, in fact, a link. “Starbucks is listed as a donor of an organization because the Starbucks ‘Partner Match’ program provides matched cash awards for contributions made by Starbucks partners (employees). Every fiscal year, funds are available to each partner to request in support of personal financial donations or individual community service efforts.”
Whether Johnson knew or not is irrelevant. What is relevant is what he does with the information now. Planned Parenthood is an organization under federal investigation by the FBI. If Starbucks wants to continue lining the organization’s pockets after the allegations that they traffic in baby body parts, that’s their choice. But know this: it won’t take long for Starbucks to lose bucks. Lining the pockets of the radical Left isn’t good for business. Just ask the NFL, ESPN, Target, Lands End, Kellogg’s, J.C. Penney, and others.
If Starbucks cares about racial bias, prove it. “Stop funding Planned Parenthood’s house of horrors,” Alveda insists. “[I]f you’re really serious about eliminating racism, you will acknowledge that black people, and indeed all human beings, are of one blood and one human race — born and unborn. Racism and abortion are crimes against humanity.” Give Kevin Johnson and team a helpful push. Call (800) 782-7282, email, or tweet them @Starbucks and ask them to stop sweetening the pot for America’s biggest abortion business.
Enjoy my caffeine sweet and cold, so mostly carbonated things for my fix. But, when I do get the craving for a cup of coffee...it’s that greasy 4 day old stuff at 7-11. That’ll bite your face off and cures the urge. ;)
The Coincidence Theorists are right...
Ayn Rand was writing a blueprint, not a warning, in ATLAS SHRUGGED.
(I wonder if this means she really was Rothchild’s GF? She certainly seemed to hate Christ with a vengeance — scary hate)
Stopped visiting then years ago.
Every town now has a selection of entrepreneurial, locally-owned, interesting, hip, friendly coffee and bakery shops. Find one you like, whose owners are good people (entrepreneurs love to meet customers) and support the small, local guy.
Just doing my little part to make the phony leftist social-justice marketing, corporate crony capitalists disappear.
Terribly over priced and no taste. Crap product. Go to another coffee house with real coffee. You’ll be glad u did!
I like the stuff at Exxon myself
overpriced poser juice.
I bought it once, thought it was gross and never went back.
Buy a Breville expresso machine for $300-400. You’ll never miss Starbucks.
When the husband and I first started dating, we went to 4Bucks a lot. Then we started thinking like a couple, instead of 2 people on a date, and realized we had spent about $2K in one year. That’s when I started packing a thermos with coffee for us at work (where we met).
Lousy stuff, but I am making it a point to tell *EVERYBODY*, right and left, who suggests I boycott ANYTHING to take a hike. I am sick to death of all sorts of people for all sorts of reasons saying ‘don’t shop here’, or ‘don’t buy this’. Just as my newest policy is to support whichever candidate who has the least strident and historic supporters. So I won’t drink their crapwater, but I don’t care what anything, anywhere funds, I’m freakin’ tired of ‘virtue signaling’. I’ve ‘boycott fatigue’ and let a few friends on the left know I shall explicitly start patronizing whatever they boycott, just on principle, just as I hate protesters no matter what signs they are holding.
One cranky cunsumer.
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It also funds homosexualizing kindergarteners.
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I threw away the espresso machine my sis-in-law gave us, and I still don’t miss StarPucks!
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Relax bruh.
“Enjoy my caffeine sweet and cold”
There’s some great cold brew coffee concentrate selling here in SoCal. First saw it in Sprouts.
Bought a cup with a gift card a niece had given me.
One sip and I dumped it in the parking lot.
I pretty sure they had to have a paving crew come in to patch the hole it ate.
And it tastes like a cigarette was put out in it.
Honestly, I can say that I have NEVER sipped any product of Starpukes and likely never will.
My daughter roped me into buying her a cup of that over-priced crap several years ago, and I was astonished at the price, even then.
Starbucks founder and off/on CEO Howard Schultz has endorsed open carry——although he prefers guns not be brought into Starbucks, I have seen hip holsters on coffee buyers with no problem.
Schultz is also on-record as a sponsor of job programs for vets.
On Memorial Day, the Starbucks I patronize sets-up the poignant “Table For The Soldier Who Didnt Come Back” complete with a soldier’s helmet and a place setting with overturned glass.
PS: McDs has made a real fine run for the designer-drink business. Their coffee and "café" drinks are actually better and cheaper.
I’ve had ONE Starbucks coffee in my life...In 2001, I was working for DoD in Washington...Went to the bank one morning and hadn’t had coffee yet....A Starbucks was right there...
I went in and the little young guy asked if he could help me...
I said I wanted a coffee...
He asked what I would like in it....
I said coffee...
He said you don’t want latte or something else...
I said I just want coffee...
He said cream and sugar....
I said coffee...Black...
He said You...You mean...You just want PLAIN coffee?????
I said of course....
He charged me $2.25 FOR ONE CUP OF PLAIN COFFEE!!!!!!
I’ve never darkened their doorway again....
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