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Would You Discuss Race With Your Starbucks Barista?
forbes.com ^ | 3/18/2015 | Ruchika Tulshyan

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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To: stationkeeper

How about “The South was right” on my cup?


61 posted on 03/19/2015 5:59:14 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


62 posted on 03/19/2015 6:14:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Sure. I would discuss race with my Starbucks barista.

“Just make the f’ing coffee and keep your yap shut.”


63 posted on 03/19/2015 6:15:37 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Islam is the military wing of the Communist party.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

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.


64 posted on 03/19/2015 6:29:12 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Berlin_Freeper

No. I don’t patronize Starbucks in the first place, so that’s my default position, anyway.


65 posted on 03/19/2015 6:34:20 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

The only time I get ANYTHING from SBUX is when I visit Barnes & Noble.


66 posted on 03/19/2015 6:41:10 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Why? Are the coffee makers somehow qualified to advise us on racial matters?


67 posted on 03/19/2015 6:42:35 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I have no problem discussing race if it is the Triple Crown or NASCAR.


68 posted on 03/19/2015 7:30:08 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: wardaddy

“discuss”, yes.
‘be lectured on”, no thanks.


69 posted on 03/19/2015 7:31:02 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB; wardaddy
After reading some of the amusing comments in this thread, I am actually struck by what this patronizing, as well as myopic, new policy, from an up-til-now successful CEO, is likely to do to the Corporate bottom line. No efficiency expert could possibly countenance this approach to counter service.

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

70 posted on 03/19/2015 7:50:28 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

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!?


71 posted on 03/19/2015 7:53:07 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
You are on the mark, except for describing the CEO as a "liberal."

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?"

72 posted on 03/19/2015 8:03:30 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

Well, right - I usually use the term “leftist” because otherwise you get into a discussion of the bastardization of the word “liberal”.


73 posted on 03/19/2015 8:22:44 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

:)


74 posted on 03/19/2015 3:28:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Great response!!!


75 posted on 03/19/2015 4:53:37 PM PDT by Calpublican (No Comprendo)
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To: Blue Highway

your description matches the drive-thru layout of the new chic-fil-a that is in my area.


76 posted on 03/19/2015 5:19:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; ...
“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.

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?

77 posted on 03/20/2015 7:07:55 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy; Berlin_Freeper; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; fieldmarshaldj; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker

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”.


78 posted on 03/20/2015 2:12:30 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

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.


79 posted on 03/20/2015 3:52:12 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Berlin_Freeper
The campaign was sparked by the recent uptick in nationally-covered racially-charged tragedies,

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.

80 posted on 03/20/2015 3:55:02 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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