Posted on 03/20/2015 8:04:46 AM PDT by rktman
Starbucks admits that the initiative was birthed out of a company forum in which employees discussed racial tensions across America due to “police killing unarmed black men in Ferguson.”
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Well played.
That is Kopi Luwak, which is one of the most expensive coffees in the world. Given that the price of that coffee is several hundred dollars per kilogram, I think the price of a Kopi Luwak latte would be too pricy for most Starbucks clientele.
The Starbucks signature flavor comes from dark roasted beans (Arabica variety, I believe), although they sell medium, light, and blond roast. Since I only like dark roast (everything else is flavorless to me), I love Starbucks. When I weighed the cost and effort of keeping my own espresso machine, which is a real pain to clean after making lattes at home, I gladly made the decision to get rid of the espresso machine and pay $5 for a Starbucks latte instead. I do this a couple times a month.
Many people LIKE the tolls because the traffic would be horrific without them.
I lived near the urban end of a toll road for years——there were several exits in close proximity. Without the tolls many would use the road for local errands and it would be slower for everyone.
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There is a fairly liberal guy at work who recommends reading that, and sometimes brings it up during conversations on human ability.
I haven't read it. Maybe someday.
Does this mean that Starbucks doesn’t give the Peace Officer Discount?
Hands up, don’t drink.
The thing to do is to get five or six buds together with drums and walk into a Starbucks at morning rush hour and announce that your white collective unconcious bias has been revealed to you. And you’d like one and all to join in singing “We Shall Overcome” followed by “Kumbaya” and the taped “Wisdom of Revrun Al-volumes I and II.
I’ve been to the Memphis Airport and the staff was all Black when I was there and they were busy, good and efficient. .......... doubt they or their customers have the time to talk about race relations.
Now if you want to talk about race matters Mr. Starbucks, you could pick up the tab and we could go to the, Interstate Bar-B-Que in Memphis and get some Beef Ribs. Park the car close to the restaurant for safety.
Did three REFORGERS 1981-83. Combat aviation battalion, convoys chasing the helicopters & vice versa all over 3AD sector.
Didn't their mamas ever teach them it's not polite to discuss religion and politics? Anything having to do with Democrats is both.
Almost Friedberg (1-32) but ended up in Hanau (CAB) & got to fly all over division sector for 30 months.
Spent a lot of time in field & combat trains, too.
I highly recommend it.
It provides factual evidence (that will undoubtedly confirm your “prejudices “) that ON THE AVERAGE races are not equal. It doesn’t say anything about specific individuals.
It doesn’t say that some random individual of a particular race is definitevely superior or inferior than one of another race, but statistically one can put odds on it.
That’s where prejudice comes into play. Barring detailed knowledge of an individual, we humans will pre judge that person based on our past experience/knowledge of other people we’ve known that appear to belong to the same group.
I searched for the STARBUCKS LOCATIONS for East Saint Louis, IL; Gary, IN; and Roosevelt, NY (ZIP 11575);
no STARBUCKS listed in any location requested, also pulled up Chicago, the South Side is almost blank of Starbucks.
Seems like STARBUCKS needs a little affirmative action in placing stores in Black neighborhoods ....... Tell Jesse and Al.
Actually, Oprah was really terrific and a breath of fresh air when she started out. She came from the South and began in Baltimore. She appealed first to women, regardless of color. I remember an early show in which she interviewed a gay man who was attempting to live a celebate life because of his conversion to Christianity, for just one instance.
But after her first decade of success and move to Chicago, she fell under the influence of people like Revrund Wright and probably the Ayers/Soros political machine, as well as the many gay sycophants surrounding her — I remember how she featured her black gay makeup artist on one show, and what a smarmy relationship they had with one another — and she changed. She began renouncing her Christian roots on the air, and featuring more and more out gay people and supporting their agenda and New Age spirituality and so forth, even before she supported Zero so openly. It's been all downhill from even before 2008. But she had great promise starting out.
It's a pity. She was a talented, eager and intelligent girl with drive and a passion to succeed and overcome her childhood deprivations, racist experiences and child abuse by her uncle, and rose steadily to live the American Dream with an abundance of support by whites. When she accomplished more success than even she might have imagined, she became a greedy, entitled, selfish, resentful, racist and bitter woman. It's a sin, really.
Business opportunity! You know how some supermarkets have a Starbucks counter inside? They could open coffee counters in abortion facilities! /major sarcasm off
And all the kasernes are closed now.
See this website: http://www.usarmygermany.com
It is really good.
The murders of Channon Gail Christian and Hugh Christopher Newsom has not received enough attention.
I would like to see a whole bunch of #RaceTogether tweets about black-on-white murders and assaults.
If Starbucks wants to do something constructive about Ferguson, they would offer to anchor and bankroll a new strip mall in Ferguson, since the poor, pitifully oppressed yutes have destroyed most of their former shopping venues.
I would say that most of the differences are cultural, not embedded in the DNA.
Children who do not receive adequate nutrition do not develop as well neurologically and end up less intelligent as a result. Thus, children born in poverty are disadvantaged.
A culture that places emphasis on avoiding “white” behavior (like getting good grades, succeeding at business, etc.) does not produce many highly intelligent individuals.
A culture that, conversely, places emphasis on working hard and trying to achieve more than anyone else produces a lot of intelligent and talented individuals.
I have heard about The Bell Curve, and do not dispute its premise. But the reasons for what it shows are complex.
A year or two ago, the guy that brought Kopi Luwak to the attention of the coffee drinkers of the world has turned his back on the stuff.
The overpriced beans sold as Kopi Luwak is from caged civets fed whatever cherries are available.
The original came from free ranging civets that ate only the optimally tasting cherries freshly ripened on the bush.
So now, it's claimed that about the only way be sure you're getting the real thing is to follow civets around with a pooper-scooper yourself.
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