Starbucks - like most white liberal elites - are clueless about race - and about themselves...
They've bothered me from the start. They have all these really excellent enlightened free trade sustainable organic grown by workers who aren't enslaved coffee blends. But their merchandise is mostly made in China. Their food isn't healthy....it's manufactured crap, most of it as bad as McDonald's. Their baristas are always engaged in "I'm cool-you're cool" pratter with customers.
And, oh yeah, their coffee tastes awful.