Posted on 03/21/2015 6:56:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Congratulations, Internet haters! Well done, keepers of the one-true-way-to-talk-about-race!
If we don't tamp down the backlash against Starbucks "Race Together" campaign, I fear that no major corporation will even try to talk about race again -- for maybe 10 or 20 years.
Is that really what we want?
Look, I get it. Asking baristas to hold conversations about race is a lot to demand of already hard-working employees. Not to mention, the topic should probably be called "systematic racism," not just "race." And there are legitimate questions about what Starbucks could realistically hope to accomplish, here.
But for crying out loud! In the past 48 hours, racial justice activists have spilled more digital ink criticizing Starbucks for trying to fight racism than they have against other (actually racist) companies. The truth is that we cannot have it both ways. We cannot demand that companies address race, and then attack them when they try.
Yes, it seems like harmless fun to pile on or retweet the snark. At some point, all of us have enjoyed the cheap thrill one gets by kicking around a big company online. But the cost this time is that no corporation will want to do anything creative or constructive on racial subjects for a very long time....
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I was sitting at a bar in LV the other day. A black bartender came towards me and had a bottle of Kahlua in hand. At that point, I had planned on ordering a seven and seven, but when I saw the Kahlua I wanted a black Russian. The black bartender had put down the bottle before asking me what I wanted, and telling I just decided I wanted a black Russian when I saw him, wanted to know what made me order that. I told him it was the Kahlua, but it was obvious he thought it was because he was black.
I hadn’t been to a Starbucks in 6-7 years, but I decided to go tonight and see what this was all about. The 2 cups of mocha that I got for my wife and myself didn’t have any reference to any of this. Participation must be optional or something
Kinds of like saying the best way to heal a wound is to keep scratching at it and picking off the scab.
Once again, who the effing f wants to discuss serious political issues while standing in line for overpriced coffee? Anyone? And why the hell would the employees want to either? How does their union feel about this extra work? Van Jones is a real idiot to defend this silly nonsense.
I think the idea is to discuss it while we are drinking their overpriced drinks.
We should pay LOTS more for our drinks at SBs because of their commitment to civil rights with this print on their cup.
“RACE TOGETHER”
Remember John Lewis at Selma and Michael Brown in Ferguson, two civil rights heroes who freed us all from slavery.
Vuck Fan Jones.
Didn’t Blenn Gleck call it Tarbucks?
Hands up, don’t drink!
Or perhaps “Tongues up, don’t sip”.
I'm a little fuzzy on what that term means.
Did he mean "systemic"?
I thought systematic meant planned, then carried out.
Poor Van is dumber than a Box of Barbara Boxers.
He obviously doesn’t have a grasp of the English Language, much like Al Sharpton. It’s all show.
He has that cool Black Dude look going for him like that Black Studies Professor who haunts Fox News.
My goodness, how do people take these Morons seriously?
Or in Selma, or Prichard, or...
I’ve been to Starbucks twice. I’d been told they sell coffee, but it wasn’t on their menu board.
I wasn’t aware of Becks comment.
-——Van Jones is,,,-——
Actually, Van Jones is an American enemy
Yeah, pretty much.
To me, Starbucks “coffee” is over hyped, over priced and irrelevant. I could care less what they do.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I have another uestion, why is there no Little Caesar’s Pizza in Ferguson?
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