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Does Starbucks Want an Honest Conversation?
Townhall.com ^ | March 20, 2015 | Mona Charen

Posted on 03/20/2015 11:53:52 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Charen describes the social interactions everyone tacitly knows and understands but never openly confirms.


21 posted on 03/20/2015 12:17:06 PM PDT by Obadiah (Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
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To: Baynative

Looks pretty whitebread to me.


22 posted on 03/20/2015 12:17:50 PM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Wiser now
Ask a black person if they would going back to segregation.

If they oppose the idea, ask what they think of the US Congress having a Black Caucus, Black Student Unions, or why so called "black churches" can do politics and election campaigning.

23 posted on 03/20/2015 12:18:17 PM PDT by Baynative (You can judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.)
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To: Kaslin

Only 2 percent of black children raised by their married parents are poor.


Whoa! Let that one jump out at you for a minute or two.


24 posted on 03/20/2015 12:20:51 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Kaslin

They may be shooting for recreating the late-nights-in-the-student-lounge vibe, but most people just want a cup of coffee and a quiet minute with the newspaper or a friend.

It’s like dealing with an ex-spouse and the cold chill that runs down your spine when you hear the words “lets talk about us”.


25 posted on 03/20/2015 12:26:27 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: Kaslin

About what? Is their coffee any good? Are the prices too high? Time to get real and cut out the BS.


26 posted on 03/20/2015 12:29:18 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Baynative

And I bet that none of these lilly white 1 percenters are willing to give up their “white priviledge to a black person.” End of conversation.


27 posted on 03/20/2015 12:30:28 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Kaslin
Starbucks is like your wife/girlfriend, they don't want your opinion, they want their opinion repeated back to them.

Like Eric Holder, Starbucks only wants a conversation that is based on their world view, differing opinions or facts are not allowed.

28 posted on 03/20/2015 12:31:25 PM PDT by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: Kaslin

Democrats inflame racial anger, for political purposes.

Its what they have always done.


29 posted on 03/20/2015 12:51:07 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Wiser now

This.

Was reading an article today where some guy was decrying the long-lasting impact housing segregation policies from the early to mid 20th Century have had on creating and maintaining the seemingly-permanent Black underclass.

His big solution? Neighborhood-level “Truth and Reconciliiation Commissions” that would expose long standing and hidden racism among whites.

I’ve often wondered how Progressives intended to reach the “don’t give a sh*t” crowd who hear stuff like this and respond with rolling eyes, turning and walking away and getting on with their lives. The guy who wrote the article I read just revealed that “how”


30 posted on 03/20/2015 12:52:11 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Baynative

Wow! What a “diverse” group. A total of 19 people:

14 White men - 73.6%
1 Black man - 5.3%
1 Asian Man - 5.3%
2 White women - 10.5%
1 Asian woman - 5.3%


31 posted on 03/20/2015 12:55:06 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: WayneS

Yeah, they are the EXACT people I want lecturing ME about race...


32 posted on 03/20/2015 12:55:43 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Kaslin; All

Does this dress make me look fat?


33 posted on 03/20/2015 1:04:53 PM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: cripplecreek

They’re are building a Starbucks 2 miles from me. I have no intention to patronize it for their lousy high priced burned liquid that they try to sell as coffee


34 posted on 03/20/2015 1:05:30 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

When I’m shopping, I frankly don’t want any business owner or their employees to involve themselves in my life in ways that don’t involve the primary purpose of their business. So if I’m there for coffee - just give me the damn coffee. If I’m there for groceries - just give me the damn groceries.

Don’t involve me in your politics and don’t ask me if I want to give a dollar to some charity. In fact, I think the backlash that Starbucks is getting is in some degree due to others like me who are sick of this trend, generally.

How would the business like it if the lines at their registers slowed down because every paying customer was taking a minute of the cashier’s time to see if the business wanted to donate a dollar to THEIR favored charity, or whether the business wanted to consider the importance of THEIR political philosophies! In fact, if this trend continues, maybe one day I’ll organize a customer nag-in of my own just to make that point!


35 posted on 03/20/2015 1:26:46 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: tanknetter

Sigh. That’s sad. And the very definition of insanity.


36 posted on 03/20/2015 1:33:35 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Kaslin
Starbucks baristas are encouraged to scrawl "race together" on coffee cups before placing them in the hands of customers.

If I got one of those, I would shout, "last one to the parking lot is a rotten egg!" Then I would run out the door as fast I can.

37 posted on 03/20/2015 2:03:18 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Kaslin
By the way, this pic from the Friday Silliness thread cracks me up.


38 posted on 03/20/2015 2:08:22 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

Paying inflated prices for a grafitti-laced cup of burned s*** while being lectured about race by some pimply faced chunkette is NOT a formula for boosting sales.

Sorry, it just isn’t.


39 posted on 03/20/2015 2:46:24 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel. My bullets are dipped in pig grease.")
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To: Kaslin

My observation is, if you are obsessed with race, you’re a Democrat.

If you don’t give two hoots about it, you’re probably a Republican or a libertarian.


40 posted on 03/20/2015 2:47:25 PM PDT by marron
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