Posted on 03/20/2023 1:26:50 PM PDT by 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.
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I’m glad I’m not consumed with that much hate.
Its very silly.
But even granting his characterizations, his premises are wrong.
The fellow misses the critical point that coffee didn’t come from Africa, other than genetically. The commercial coffee plant was domesticated in Yemen, and was turned into a customary drink there, not in Ethiopia. And whether Ethiopia is “black” in the US-racial politics sense is a vexed matter in itself, but whatever.
That is, it was brown people who “stole” it from black people. And it was brown people (in the Arab/Muslim world) that turned coffee into a widespread custom and a globally traded commodity. The Euros took that Arab/Muslim thing and ran with it.
What if I take my coffee without any cream to make it whiter?
It’s only racist if I drink it while eating fried chicken and watermelon.
Beer came from either Egypt or what is now Iraq. Or those are the earliest civilizations where it is documented. And those people made beer on a massive scale.
So it was also invented by “black” people, in the modern US black-nationalist characterization. Which does not take into account the opinions of the Egyptians and Iraqis, but that’s par for the course in the self-absorbed world of identity politics.
Dennis Prager has a good observation here: They have to make up reasons to find racism because there is so little real racism left.
Poopin is racist. Quit pooping black and brown stuff. Only white poop is allowed from now on.
I like my coffee black. How racist is that?
Wiping your Obama with toilet paper is cultural appropriation by Obama’s sons if Obama had a son.
I guess on these premises every single white German born is responsible for the atrocity that killed 9 million Jews. I mean correct? Right? Just trying to follow the “logic” here.
Which is why I am a Western supremacist. I’m sorry but the first nations groups in NA didn’t even have books. They didn’t write anything. It was all oral. This was the case when the printing press had been invented in Europe 4 centuries earlier! It shocked my wife when I said this but I said some cultures are just superior to others. Does that make me a white supremacist?
It has been so overused that it’s meaningless. And therefore useless as a threat so long as you treat it as such.
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To people who lowercase White and uppercase black and brown, and hate Whitey, and who blame Whitey for all their failures, I have only one finger to raise.
Good approach
To Afru Staff: What your ancestors did is their business, not yours. So mind your own business and quit torturing people with your stupidity.
Thanks again, liberal, for once again introducing me to racist phrases and jokes I never knew existed in my 50 years.
So, where does Juan Valdez work in that equation? Maybe he has cocaine plantation on the other side of the hill from his coffee plantation.
The Afru staff doesn’t like me.
I think Scott Adams is right. I don’t want to be around people who hate me. I don’t care what color or non-color they are.
My husband and I are laughing! He quipped, “ And read the Bible, too?”
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