On March 17, 2015 Starbucks president Howard Schultz announced the Race Together campaign, which was an effort by his company to get people talking about racism. The campaign would have employees of Starbucks write on the side of customer’s cups the phrase “Race Together.” The rumor was that employees were supposed to engage customers in a conversation about race as well, but I have yet to find a credible source verifying that.
“Discussions” about race usually go something like this: “White man, you’ve been keeping Black people down for way too long, so shut the hell up and listen to what we have to say. Then do as we say! You got it?!” That is, “conversations”, “continuing dialogue”, etc., about racism are always about how White people just don’t get it and how the Black race is forever the victim of those evil Caucasians who are just too stupid to understand the problems Blacks face or are unwilling to relinquish power they hold over Blacks – or both.
I am so tired of this. I have been listening to these Blacks and White liberals for forty-eight years tell me how I am to blame for past injustices, how I am to blame for the way things are today with Black folks and all the adversity they face, how I am to blame for slavery, how I owe for reparations, and how White people are the only people on the planet who could possibly ever be guilty of racism. I have heard all I ever want to hear from Blacks and White liberals with their bitching and belly-aching over racial issues. In fact, I’ve been over it for decades now.
When Starbucks announced their new politically correct racism campaign, I thought to myself, “Jesus Christ! You’ve got to be kidding me!” I made up my mind I would take a small stand against Starbucks over this issue. So on Sunday March 22nd, I called a Starbucks here in Mempnis, Tennessee. The conversation went like this:
- Starbucks Employee: Thank you for calling Starbucks. This is ______. How may I help you?
- Me: Yeah, I would like to come by this afternoon and get a cup of coffee after my class lets out; but I am not gonna hear a lecture about racism; and I don’t want any racism bullshit written on the side of my cup. Is that going to be a problem?
- SE: No sir. That won’t be a problem at all. In fact, we are not even doing that at this location.
- Me: Okay. I’ll be by this afternoon. Thank you.
- SE: Yes sir, thank you.
So, off I went before my class started instead after it let out. I went inside (this was my very first time to a Starbucks by the way), placed my order, told the girl running the register that I didn’t want that Race Together crap on my cup, paid for it and left.
As of this blog entry, Starbucks had backed down on a national level. Apparently, enough people like me voiced their displeasure at being preached at over racism again. I didn’t even see any mention of it on the company website on March 24th as I did on March 23rd.
It’s time people took a stand against liberals and said “ENOUGH!” If more people would voice their opinions, maybe some of this politically correct nonsense would become a thing of the past.
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