I’m thinking the employees all over this country are thinking “Oh geez...I have to do my job and parrot this crap?” “I just wanna do my less than 39 hours and go home to smoke some bud.
What this really amounts to is a CEO that doesn’t have a clue how to continue, or grow, his company in an environment of capitalism. It is political pandering that may get them some props with liberals and blacks, but the bottom line is you ain’t gonna see no brother from the hood roll up to their window and order a $7 cup of coffee at 8 AM in the morning and then get held up to discuss how he feels about ‘race’.
I’ve seen some snarky remarks on other threads, to the effect that Starbucks seems to have very few black employees and few black customers. Yet this company is going to lecture us about race.
Also, some other threads discussed how there are no Starbucks in majority black towns across the country.