Posted on 03/19/2015 12:19:11 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Starbucks just announced a new campaign inviting their customers to discuss race relations with baristas. The Seattle-based coffee company is asking employees to write “Race Together” on the side of customers’ cups, in an effort to engage them to discuss…well, their ethnicity. The campaign was sparked by the recent uptick in nationally-covered racially-charged tragedies, according to a Starbucks press release.
“What if we were to write ‘Race Together’ on every Starbucks cup, and that facilitated a conversation between you and our customers?” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says in a video message to partners. “And what if our customers as a result of that had a renewed level of understanding and sensitivity about the issue, and they themselves would spread that to their own sphere of influence?”
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How about “The South was right” on my cup?
If I ever go to starbucks again, it won’t be to be accused of being racist.
Question for starbucks: would you ask a NON-WHITE if he’s racist?
Answer: obvious.
Sure. I would discuss race with my Starbucks barista.
“Just make the f’ing coffee and keep your yap shut.”
Starbucks will lose customers if they seem to be applying a political litmus test to their customers.
This week, we’ll discuss race with you whether you want to or not.
Next week, I’m going to Dunkin Donuts instead.
And Starbucks bills itself as a “third place”, somewhere outside of home and work to meet. If I’m meeting someone to discuss school fundraisers, local politics, it is offensive for an employee to come in and interject a different, divisive topic into our discussion.
If I’ve paid for the privileged to sit there, by being a customer, you can’t come over and call me out for supposed privilege for my skin color.
No. I don’t patronize Starbucks in the first place, so that’s my default position, anyway.
The only time I get ANYTHING from SBUX is when I visit Barnes & Noble.
Why? Are the coffee makers somehow qualified to advise us on racial matters?
I have no problem discussing race if it is the Triple Crown or NASCAR.
“discuss”, yes.
‘be lectured on”, no thanks.
It will not only drive away those offended; even worse, it will draw in others who want to discuss their racial theories, which will, in turn, drive away others who do not relish waiting in line while the typical suburbanite faux "liberal," indulges in their need to try to convince others waiting in line, just how "tolerant"--as defined in a Leftwing college--they have become.
Stupidity, compounded!
William Flax
Like all liberals, they will sacrifice all other considerations for their own self-righteousness.
What’s a little loss of revenue when we’re talking about how good I feel about myself!?
An opinionated ass, with a pompous & officious in your face attitude about somethings of which he shows little understanding, is really not a "liberal," in any classic sense. I like my term, much better: "Liberal" or "Mipip?"
Well, right - I usually use the term “leftist” because otherwise you get into a discussion of the bastardization of the word “liberal”.
:)
Great response!!!
your description matches the drive-thru layout of the new chic-fil-a that is in my area.
What if someone were to cut open your head? Would they find nothing but a note from God "IOU 1 brain"?
Libtards can be ****ing weird sometimes. Are people supposed to wait in line while the person ahead of them "talks about race" with the girl behind the counter? WTF?
Gee... Let’s see... I grew up in North Philly... graduated from the University of Last White Kid Left On The Block.
Yeah. We can have THAT discussion; Me and some empty-headed little suburbanite 20-something that still lives in Mom’s basement, and is going to lecture me on “White Privilege”.
I think the ONLY possible response is “G. F... Y...self, Kid”.
do you like the new chick fil-a drive thru layout or is it like I said where people don’t want you to get in front of them when the 2 lanes merge back into one. I never understood why a restaurant wants to bring the worst aspect of road rage into a drive thru restaurant setting. I wonder if there have been any “accidents” or road rage situations involving violence at a drive thru for the reasons I explained since they designed these new drive thrus.
None of which were the black on white executions of various white couples, nor the black on white knockout crimes.
And the key phrase here is "nationally covered". The media chooses what it chooses to cover and what it chooses to ignore.
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