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Posted on 03/20/2015 7:44:10 PM PDT by IChing
Somebody needs to tell Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz to snap a lid on his grande mocha-hole, especially seeing as he chooses not to match his money or his actions to that frothing hypocrite mouth.
In case you haven’t heard about it already, as part of the all-out propaganda war of disinformation being waged (and, massively funded by at least $33 million from his fellow lefty opportunist billionaire and tribal kinsman, Gyorgy Schwartz aka George Soros) under the hashtag “BlackLivesMatter,” Starbucks’ Schultz is urging his legions of baristas to write “#RaceTogether” on customers’ coffee cups, as a way to provoke in-store discussions with customers about the burning racial issues of the day.
On your markers, and get ready to hand those cups right back — with a curt, scrawled reply.
In a video he made, Schultz personally instructs his baristas about the #RaceTogether campaign, saying that even though he’s urgently promoting it, it’s strictly voluntary; they don’t have to write it on cups nor initiate conversations with customers about racial matters if they don’t want to.
Schultz goes on to say: “…and if a customer doesn’t want to receive a cup that says #RaceTogether on it, give them another beverage, or replace their cup.”
So, if a Starbucks barista tries to get you into a discussion about race by handing you your beverage in a cup with #RaceTogether written on it, you have the option to ask for another drink, or for a different cup.
I say take him/them up on the replacement. Send their race-baiting cup back to them — but be sure to bring a bold, fat Sharpie pen with you.
Schultz is running full-page advertisements in the New York Times and USA Today to promote the #RaceTogether campaign. The Times ad consists of a huge, ominous-looking, blacked-out area, containing an isolated line of relatively tiny white lettering hovering in the center, reading: “Shall we overcome?” Down along the lower-right margin, “R A C E T O G E T H E R” appears, with the Starbucks logo underneath.
The Starbucks website is overbrimming with content related to the marketing blitz. Schultz personally appears in video speeches about the campaign, and for months now he himself has been leading employee “workshops” on racial controversies, writing articles and letters, and even plans to host an upcoming shareholders’ conference about it all.
Two key problems with Schultz’ hopey-changey #RaceTogether brainstorm, other than the obvious risks involved in bringing up such a scaldingly boiling-hot topic in public, are that not only is it really just a thinly-veiled pogrom of micro-aggressions directed at white people (despite Schultz’ claims about wanting to foster “sensitivity and understanding“) it’s also contrary to what Schultz himself devotes so much of his energy and resources to elsewhere. I explain below.
Firstly, consider the real facts on the ground in places like Sanford, Ferguson, and Staten Island — facts, weighed carefully by juries of diverse citizens, instead of the outright lies and spin from the Black Grievance Industry and officialdom. In spite of those facts, does anyone really expect that such deliberately provoked discussions about the racial tensions in our society, in such politically-correct, lefty settings as Starbucks locations across the land, won’t be dominated by the usual (and by now completely false) narrative depicting blacks mainly as the downtrodden victims of relentlessly pervasive, pernicious racism on the part of presumed-guilty whites? Does anyone think for a second that the truth will instead preside in such exchanges — the truth that blacks in today’s society instead are more often criminally violent predators, viciously racist attackers of innocent whites and of white policemen?
Second, consider that Schultz is an active Zionist (nothing wrong with that at all, in my opinion, except for his hypocrisy in this matter). He won a prestigious award, the “Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of Zion Tribute Award,” for his significant support for ethnic nationalism (Zionism) in Israel — while he nonetheless implicitly deigns to lecture us (mainly whites, of course) against any such likewise nationalism here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryb8NmvU7Vw
Does anyone doubt that Schultz’ #RaceTogether agenda is anything but the abject diversity-worship and forced multiculturalism always preached by the Left, eschewing and demonizing any notion of now-outlawed and taboo (except for non-whites, that is) national identity on this continent?
Now, don’t get me wrong here — I’m all in favor of ethnic nationalism for Jews in Israel, and for any and every other race, tribe, whatever, wherever. I sincerely wish there to be more of it, especially in certain parts of the world. We need “room for cream,” if you get my drift.
At this point, given all the issues our society faces with unresolved racial tensions and strife today (and apparently worsening, into the future indefinitely), I firmly believe that blacks in the U.S. should have been given their own, fertile sovereign territory, somewhere, following Emancipation.
Furthermore, I’d go as far as to say that I lean toward white nationalism — that is, I think some amount of racial/ethnic diversity within a country’s borders and population is just fine, and even to some extent desirable — provided that such diversity exists within a securely dominant and stable framework of a prevailing majority racial demographic which gives the country a clearly identifiable language, culture, and character — instead of the utter chaos, confusion, and endless racial tension and conflict spread by advocates of ever-increasing, growing, seething factions of “diversity.” Specifically, here in America, I believe whites must at least attempt to secure our majority, for the sake of everyone concerned.
In aggressively promoting a multi-racial, multi-national society which glorifies and exalts “diversity,” instead of a specific, unifying national identity for America, while he himself invests boatloads of money and effort into helping his blood- and religio-cultural family in Israel succeed as a nation in the true sense of the word (the explicit, idenitifably ethnic sense), Starbucks’ Schultz comes off as just another dishonest, opportunistic, money-grubbing, filthy-rich leftist blowhard. His practice is to significantly support ethno-state solidarity for hisown people, while yet using his unfathomable billions in lucre and influence to preach and pontificate against it for the rapidly dwindling ethnic majority here in America.
Wake up and smell the coffee, whitey. You’re being played again.
Don’t forget that pen.
#STFU
Except I'm not now and never will be hip no matter how much prized java I consume (and seen consuming). Glug, glug.
In response to “#racetogether” here are mine:
#NoStarbuxinFerguson
#whereareyouinSelma
#racistStarbuxavoidsthehood
venti white mocha...only $4.75! For 20 ounces!
I don’t drink coffee but I was in a highway rest stop plaza the other day with an aunt who wanted a double shot espresso and they had a Tim Horton’s which had a huge lineup and a deserted Starbucks. So I decided to use the Starbucks and got the espresso for double the price Tim Horton’s charges. No writing on it but I think Canadian Starbucks are being spared this latest idiocy.
On the bright side, they've been more reasonable on guns than many of their ilk.
I bought a machine that makes espresso/latte/cappuccino and can have such treats at will. Had it 1-1/2 years and it has probably already paid for itself . I do patronize a coffee house that is owned by a Christian man and is a hangout for a lot of good folks.
I dislike a lot about Starbucks but will fess up to buying one of their products every 8 months or so depending on the situation and my desire for a fast fix...
I would have written “you have to squeeze one more drop” on the cup!
Starbucks is one of the most elitist-better than thou corporations on the planet. They choose their sites carefully to keep that image.
They want to do something about race relations? How about adapting some Starbucks so they can be economically successful restaurants in minority inner city locations. Maybe they could start at locations such as East 93rd and Harvard in Cleveland, for instance.
If they don't want to improve on their own elitist location choices, they should SHUT UP.
I went to Starbucks yesterday. Nobody wrote anything on my cup like that.
#ACCLIMATEORGOPOUNDSAND
Good morning sir! I never drank coffee until I got out of college and moved to South Florida. Could not stand the stuff. Then I met a load of South Americans, Brasilians and Colombians and over the years I got hooked. It seemed that visiting some of our new friends they always wanted to share a cup of their favorite coffee they brought with them or found locally in a foreign goods store. That got me started...
This was not cover the stuff with syrup and goo to hide the flavor of the beans Starbucks crap. It was this grew on a mountain near my house, this is from my grandmothers plantation, this is from a region that specializes in this type of bean coffee. The varieties were endless and the flavors were nothing short of amazing.
Later, I started to roast for a hobby. To this day it’s like making homemade candy that’s far more flavorful and rewarding than any generic chain could hope to approach.
I could go on about the fun times with the people, my wife and friends “down South” but suffice to say the pleasure that the coffee on its own has provided has contributed greatly to the overall quality of my life. Small things, I suppose but tremendous pleasure.
Cheers...
Notice how huge, multi-billion dollar deep-pockets corporations like Starbucks and McDonalds (McDonalds has their “365Black” website/PR campaign) engage in all these pandering marketing efforts just to run pre-emptive race-grievance interference in order to try to indemnify themselves from the inevitable cavalcade of shakedown lawsuits by blacks?
What do you mean, you won’t wear the ribbon?
You must wear the ribbon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iV8X8ubGCc
I like their coffee but I prefer my own. Fortunately, mine comes in a cup without some pushy idiot’s political beliefs written on it.
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