Posted on 03/20/2015 11:53:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Jenk is a long time FReeper.
“But for the race racketeers,....”
Good one, Mona.
No. Next question.
“Starbucks baristas are encouraged to scrawl “race together” on coffee cups before placing them in the hands of customers.”
I’ll bet that a 6’5” black guy will not have that scrawled on his coffee cup.
No, they want a lecture on race.
They're on their perch, trendy, elite, and know what's best for everyone else. But you know what? They've done nothing to adapt their formula so they could open stores in non-trendy inner city minority neighborhoods. That's the race conversation they should be having, if any. Let them go down to East 93rd and Harvard in Cleveland (etc in other cities) and work with the neighbors to develop a successful Starbucks there.
Otherwise, they should just SHUT UP!
If Starbucks was one bit honest about this race relations BS, they would locate in the highly self-segregated black communities.
But, times being what they are, nobody in those communities wants to pay maybe $8 for a not particularly inspired shot of caffeine.
There are 4 Starbucks locations in Detroit. 2 are downtown, one is in midtown and the 4th is at Wayne State. Not 1 is in the hood.
What they want is endless confessions by whites. Funny, the the black community never wants to move beyond the confession part to the “forgiveness” part, where the victim gives up any further demands for recompense, or amends, or reparations, which I thought was 40 acres and a mule well over one hundred years ago.
This is never going to be over so long as the black community refuses to forgive. I still don’t hear forgiveness being preached from the pulpits of black churches.
No. They don’t want an honest conversation. Every time a black person is shot by a law enforcement officer or a white person that becomes a racist issue. If a police officer or a white person gets killed or wounded, never an issue. Some want reparations-—also called redistribution of wealth. I am sick and tired of the guilt trip certain blacks want to push on white Americans. I am tired of living in the past. I am tired of spending money we don’t have on programs we cannot begin to afford, especially Obamacare. I’m tired of raising taxes on everyone else to pay for counterproductive welfare programs which do nothing but encourage dependence and irresponsibility. I’m tired of political correctness and worshipping at the altar of Dr. MLK Jr., a notorious philanderer who associated with Communists and radicals. I’m sick and tired all of it. Sorry can’t fit it all on a Starbucks coffee cup. The whole idea just typical liberal lunacy.
I am white so I must be a racist in this kind of society even though my grandfather was born in Amsterdam, my great grandmother was born in Ireland and the uncle that this white guy was Cherokee. Yep I am a racist./s
Phhtt! Starbucks is trying to cash in on a failed mulatto President.
He does not want the conversation. He just wants publicity for starbucks.
I think I would refuse to take a cup that had extraneous writing on it. Who knows what germs may have been added? Do you suppose they would relent on this campaign if it looked like they would be -OH NO- wasting paper?
Seriesly, this will not be a hugh problem for me, since I never go to Starbucks, but do find it offensive that they feel it is their public duty to spread the notion of white privilege and encourage white guilt amongst their, no-doubt, highly white, liberal customer base.
I stood at the register and just yelled “RACIST” at customers that ordered black coffee.
I won’t purchase anything after the ad they took out after the twin towers fell.
Google starbucks collapse into cool.
DISGUSTING.
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