I’m all ready to visit my local Starbucks during its “Race Together” week …
In partnership with USA Today, Starbucks has launched a week-long campaign under the banner “Race Together” to get staff and customers talking about race. In a video message, Schultz urges “partners” to write the phrase on their paper cups “to facilitate a conversation between you and our customers.” A USA Today supplement, set to be published March 20, includes a number of “conversation starters,” including the fill-in-the-blank question: “In the past year, I have been to the home of someone of a different race ___ times.”
I just so want to have some college-attending, hipster baristas hand me a cup with the hope of a conversation.
They will really get a conversation from me.
I can hardly wait.
I don’t have to listen, primarily because Starbucks coffee is crap and I haven’t spent a dime in one of their stores in ten years.
done.
it’s too late for to make it a new year’s resolution
but a peet’s just opened across the way anyhow
i’m embarrassed for a coffee chain?
that’s not supposed to happen especially on St. Patrick’s Day
but this is a spectacularly fucking gay coffee chain
it’s even gayer than argo tea
It worked about as well as you’d expect: “A Starbucks executive just deleted his Twitter account after backlash over the company’s new ‘race together’ campaign.”
Quips Insty: “I realize that a race-and-gender-studies degree tends to lead to a barista position, so at least they’re trained, but most of us don’t really care what they have to say.”
In the past year, I have been to the home of someone of a different race ___ times.
zero? Gee, I can’t recall, do White Hispanics count? I have friends who I have visited this year who were born in Arizona and all and speak Spanish but, they and their kids all look fairly white.
Nearly all my Hispanic friends are light skinned, two born in Mexico. Does that mean I am racists barrista?
How about my native-American wife, she was raised by white parents. Does she count?
If my absentee Mexican-American father ever showed up I might visit him. If he were in jail would that count as home?
#blackliesmatter
I already have to keep my inner Foamy the Squirrel under control when I walk into a Starbucks. This will not help things.
(NSFW language in link)
I’ll bet there could be some very entertaining slugfests in some Starbuck’s.
Unlikely. The people who would take exception to being lectured by a barista already tend not to bother with Starbuck’s.
Off-topically, regarding this “Liz Mair” firing by Scott Walker: Fuck self-interested Iowa and their fucking corn subsidies and their first in the nation political caucus bullshit. Fuck defending them. Fuck the self-interested inside-the-beltway professional guns-for-hire political consultant class. Fuck defending them. Fuck the chummy-cozy inside-the-beltway political pundit class. Fuck defending them. Fuck all these special interest assholes howling about piddling nonsense in every fucking direction while the nation plunges into the toilet at the hands of the ClownDisaster’s filthy policies. Goddamn it all. What fucking trash. The lot of these bastards deserve the beatings of their puny lives.
Basta.
Mair is pro-amnesty, which reopened Walker’s one serious vulnerability with the base. Hiring her was not a smart move, even without her Iowa tweets.
Which, incidentally, I think there are very good arguments for de-emphasizing the Iowa caucuses, or at least making Iowa less of a testing ground for big money and imported stormtroopers — but if Mair made one, it was overshadowed by her insulting tweets. Which compounds the stupidity of hiring her.
the Liz Mair thing is way too inside baseball for me to have any feeling about
twitter is a use at your own risk thing
lots of otherwise intelligent people don’t seem to get that
and it’s not my problem
Were I in charge of the GOP, I’d hold the primaries as follows:
Two years prior to a presidential election (or four, whatever), randomly divide the states into five groups.
Each group of ten states has its primary on the same date.
Next time around, randomly divide the states again so that no state is more likely to be in the first primary group than another.
No more Iowa; no more New Hampshire.
Yes, I know the state parties are the deciders, but top-down conformity is in vogue lately so I figured I’d give it a whirl.