Is coffee racist? How drinking coffee perpetuates white supremacy

Afru ^ | 20 Mar2023 | Afru Staff

[Rummyfan]

Created by Black people for Black people—and now a pillar of white supremacist capitalism. If you consume coffee, you are helping an industry built on racism.

If you’re a person of color, you know what I’m talking about. You walk into a new coffee shop and your senses are overwhelmed with whiteness and you get the glare from the Karens. The white hipster barista lines herself up between you and the bathrooms, ready to tell you non-customers aren’t welcome.

If you have a white coffee drinking friend, he or she may have even let you in on the old coffee joke white coffee drinkers share when PoC aren’t around: “there are three things that are necessary in order to make a cup of coffee, and they are: first, a black man to roast the coffee; second, a yellow man to grind it; and third, a white man to drink it.”

Well, I’m here to validate your lived experience; coffee is in fact horribly racist, and there’s data to back it up.

Every facet of the coffee industry, in fact, is rooted in racism. From the moment the whites viciously stole coffee from Black and Brown People to the present-day Karen sipping her morning cup of white supremacy, whites have been able to drink the fruits of our labor and our culture with impunity.

[PGR88]

The comments on the website are pretty good.

I noticed that they were shutdown by the administrators.

[TLI]

“there are three things that are necessary in order to make a cup of coffee, and they are: first, a black man to roast the coffee; second, a yellow man to grind it; and third, a white man to drink it.”

horse$hit. (with impunity)

Never heard that.

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[puppypusher]

Well!what the hell I’m white and I drink my share of coffee.So I’m now a White Supremacist. Never thought I’d make the grade.

[occamrzr06]

Everything is racist.

That how the racist game is played.

[Steely Tom]

All links are to FR threads:

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Michelle Obama Recalls Racist Double Standard If Daughters Were "Messy" While She Was First Lady: "It Wouldn't Have Been Laughed Off"

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VP Kamala Harris Gets Real About Environmental Racism

Norwegian University Studies Role of White Paint in Promoting Racism

Jane Fonda says climate crisis can be blamed on racism: ‘Where would they put the sh—? Not Bel Air.’

CNN’s Van Jones Blames Beating Death of Tyre Nichols by 5 Black Police Officers on Racism

NYC Mayor Adams on Tyre Nichols Death: We Have To Be Honest Racism Involved

Hillary Clinton Claims Racism After Congressman Alleges Rep. Judy Chu Could Be Tied to CCP

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blames election loss on racism, gender

NY Times Discovers New Source of Racism-And this could be the most absurd one yet.

Colin Kaepernick accuses white adoptive parents of ‘problematic’ upbringing, perpetuating racism

This article says there’s a racist aspect to brushing your teeth before you go to the dentist. I disagree. I always brush my teeth before I go to the dentist, but it has nothing to do with racism. Why do some people insist on seeing racism everywhere?

Loyola U. Prof: Neatly Organized Pantries Are Rooted in Racism, Sexism

[central_va]

If your don’t think you are a racist then you are a racist.

[yuleeyahoo]

Everything is racist https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRyhqynaa8

[Main Street]

Here’s a link that sets the record straight on so called black inventions

Black invention myths:

http://blackinventionmyths.com/

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If you have a white coffee drinking friend, he or she may have even let you in on the old coffee joke white coffee drinkers share when PoC aren’t around: “there are three things that are necessary in order to make a cup of coffee, and they are: first, a black man to roast the coffee; second, a yellow man to grind it; and third, a white man to drink it.”

LOL. If they really like you, they'll let you in on a little secret that white people don't actually have to pay for the coffee.

"That’s all right. There’s nobody around. Go ahead, take it."

[dfwgator]

“What a silly negro!”

[BraveMan]

The comments are just as entertaining as the article . . .

[blackdog]

If coffee perpetuates white supremacy, then sugar soda perpetuates black inferiority.

[jpp113]

I get it now. They want free coffee to make up for all the years that coffee oppressed them.

[Conservat1]

Omg. Shall I stop choosing vanilla ice cream?

[jimjohn]

OMG! you folks gotta go read the comments. Hilarious!

[frank ballenger]

A black woman at work in the 1970s said to her adolescent son “Remember, with even a little cream in the coffee means it’s still coffee.”
That meant her son’s mixed race partner who has only a small amount of black genetic heritage in her family is still counted as black to black people. And would be accepted by the family as okay.

I also heard a black woman much later say of Halle Berry: “She has a whole lot of cream in her coffee.”

[Republican Wildcat]

Oh, good. I don’t drink coffee.

I’m apparently a racist just for other reasons according to these people now.

[bk1000]

It’s played out. We don’t care anymore. You can’t deal? Too bad. I just don’t care.

[frank ballenger]

Juan Valdez and his donkey went searching for the best coffee beans in the upper slopes of the hills in South America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_INwKKJKK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400ZtCfpUV8

[dfwgator]