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Starbucks baristas stop writing "Race Together" on cups
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Posted on 03/22/2015 8:16:00 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA

According to a recently released internal memo, Starbucks baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups starting Sunday.

Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson says the campaign to create discussion on diversity and racial inequality will continue without the handwritten messages, which are phasing out as originally planned.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: dumbideas; racetogether; starbucks
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To: Star Traveler

That’s good to hear.

Go Sooners!


81 posted on 03/22/2015 9:26:54 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Red in Blue PA
“Well that didn't take long. One of the dumbest ideas I have heard of in long time. “

It's just part of the never-ending campaign to guilt trip white people. The current immigration tidal wave we are seeing is a replacement strategy that started with Teddy Boy Kennedy in 65? We just sit on our butts while the progressives take to the streets constantly demanding more giveaways from whites to everyone else in the world. It's not going to stop until the honkies wake up or are dead.

82 posted on 03/22/2015 9:27:00 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Star Traveler

Try the convenience store chain Woo Woo. Great coffee. I know they are mostly out East.


83 posted on 03/22/2015 9:28:33 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Red in Blue PA

What is this ‘Starbuck’s’? I’ll take my Tim Horton’s or McDonald’s coffee ‘double double’, thank you very much!


84 posted on 03/22/2015 9:28:42 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: cornfedcowboy

Sometimes I do go to one of our local “Durango Joe’s” places and have something.

I had something a while back that was delicious and can see where it could be addicting.

I’d bet some people must spend hundreds of dollars a month at those places.


85 posted on 03/22/2015 9:31:27 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Can someone say, “Major Fail.”


86 posted on 03/22/2015 9:32:26 AM PDT by AdaGray
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To: rainee

I’ve found that “northern states” (even though Oregon is not a “traditional” northern state) are MORE RACIST than southern states, who originally had slaves!

The thing is ... northern states “talk a great talk” but are averse to having blacks around them, while Southern States are actually “living with blacks” all the time. They’ve figured out how to do it. The northern states haven’t.

Of course, this is a generalization ... but it’s one that holds for the most part ... :-) ...

I refer to Oregon as a “northern state” because it bears more resemblance to them than it does to the Southern states. So, in that sense, I’ve directly experienced each of those areas for years in each spot!

And finally, I do know you were referring to Hispanics, but this does bear on the “racist attitude”.


87 posted on 03/22/2015 9:34:50 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: rainee

As I understand it, they have strict zoning guidelines which preserve open space while driving up costs in those areas already developed. I don’t see much opening there for people of any color that don’t pay their own way...


88 posted on 03/22/2015 9:34:54 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: cornfedcowboy

I grew up on a ranch and remember some of the old cowboys putting egg shells in their percolators. Great coffee.


89 posted on 03/22/2015 9:36:32 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Star Traveler

Guess I’ll have to head to Starbucks today! Ha


90 posted on 03/22/2015 9:39:21 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: rainee

I’m going to tell them that usually don’t drink coffee but felt like engaging in a lively Sunday conversation about race.


91 posted on 03/22/2015 9:41:13 AM PDT by rainee (Her)
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To: cornfedcowboy

Hmmm ... I’ve never heard of it. Do you have a store website?

Of course, while I was in Oregon, I never heard of QuikTrip, either! ... LOL ...

AND ... I never heard of the “Top Tier Gasoline” that it sells there. Now that I’m in Oklahoma, I’ll only go to QuikTrip and I’ll only get “Top Tier Gasoline” for my car! [”Top Tier Gasoline” is also sold at other major gasoline retailers, like Texaco, Shell, Chevron, etc. ...]


92 posted on 03/22/2015 9:42:45 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Gen.Blather
I doubt Starbucks had a large number of conservative customers anyway.

True - but liberals are thin skinned - they can dish it out but 'can't take it' if you know what I mean ... One conservative yucking it up and laughing at them would be enough for them to avoid Starbucks.

Starbucks accidentally opened up the discussion to people outside the little world of liberal elites - that was the problem.

93 posted on 03/22/2015 9:44:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: rickomatic

Wife and stopped by a Starbucks to use a gift card I got somewhere. Unlike some here, I don’t hate their coffee. Anyway, I was really tempted to ask one of the baristas why every employee in the store was Lilly white Caucasian. Interestingly enough, this was in Woodinville WA, a suburb of the founding city, Seattle.
It cracks me up, that I can probably count on one hand the number of “ethinicly diverse” Starbucks employees I’ve ever seen in their stores here in it’s founding city. Liberal hypocricy strikes again.”

I live in Seattle and have NEVER seen a black person working in a Starbucks. I don’t go there much but one used to be close to my office and sometimes I stop at one in an outlying area if I am driving somewhere.

I guess we could say to a white barista “Why don’t you ask Howard Schultz to fire you and hire a black person?”


94 posted on 03/22/2015 9:49:34 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Snickering Hound
Back to French Medieval Wymyn's poetry majors resenting not being able to find another job then.

Thing is, eventually, that "French Medieval Wymyn's poetry major" will find a job, and it will a job that, in one way or another, influnces the culture far more that anything anyone on this site has ever done, I would bet. But some conservatives just want to keep mocking the idea of they themselves, God forbid, having a profession that shapes the culture in any relevant way.

95 posted on 03/22/2015 9:52:20 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: Snickering Hound

Their job at starbucks is their own reward for picking a degree with no real world value.


96 posted on 03/22/2015 9:55:31 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: TigerClaws

Has anyone discovered a Starbucks in a black neighborhood yet? I hear there aren’t any...


97 posted on 03/22/2015 9:55:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: tacticalogic
If the barista is white, ask them how they can stand to look at themselves in the mirror every morning knowing that “white privilege” got them their job at the expense of some more deserving minority.

I would never give the barista a hard time over this nonsense. They just came into work one morning and were told that has to do this crap. And without a raise, which would be deserved for added responsibility such as this.

98 posted on 03/22/2015 9:55:55 AM PDT by southern rock
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To: rktman

Pour the contents into the tip jar and tell them they need to wake up more than you.


99 posted on 03/22/2015 9:56:54 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: cornfedcowboy
Try the convenience store chain Woo Woo. Great coffee. I know they are mostly out East.

Um, do you mean Wawa? LOL!

100 posted on 03/22/2015 10:00:00 AM PDT by southern rock
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