You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
Home Front: Culture Wars
Starbucks ends 'Race Together' campaign in stores, effort not over
2015-03-23
[CA.NEWS.YAHOO] Starbucks Corp head Howard Schultz told employees on Sunday they will no longer be encouraged to write "Race Together" on drinks cups, but the company's effort to promote discussion of racial issues "is far from over".
They're promoting it everywhere except on their corporate board, which is about as white as the MSNBC prime time anchor lineup...
The world's biggest coffee chain kicked off a U.S. race relations campaign last week when it published full-page ads in major U.S. newspapers with the words "Shall We Overcome?" at centre page and "RaceTogether" and the Starbucks logo near the bottom.
I've just 'Overcome' the need to buy a cup of Starbucks. Funny how it happened.
Employees behind the counter were also given the option of writing "Race Together" on customers' cups.
Hey Lenny, I see you're not writing anything on your cups....something wrong ?
The campaign was met with skepticism on social media, with many complaining the company was overstepping it boundaries with a campaign on sensitive cultural topics that had no place in the coffee shop's lines.
"They got those 'We are all responsible, well-intentioned blues!'"
Posted by:Fred

#12  This whole episode reminds me of the Hollywood celebrities who pontificate on political and social issues. Maybe they think it's cool, hip and with it. They may even flatter themselves into believing it's their responsibility. I'm guessing about half of the country agrees with them and half get pissed off enough to never watch another one of their movies. I can't imagine ever going to see a Sean Penn movie and Schultz doesn't seem to have helped his business much.

C'mon, Howard. Can't I just get a cup of coffee?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2015-03-23 16:27  

#11  Never been there. Way overpriced.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2015-03-23 14:34  

#10  I still have an unused Starbucks gift card in my wallet from about 8-10 years ago. Prefer Tully's if I have a choice.

Heck - even that biological-warfare-qualified swell they used to have in the office coffee Urns and that was truly vile.;
Posted by: CrazyFool   2015-03-23 14:05  

#9  the company's effort to promote discussion of racial issues "is far from over"

"You kulaks will learn!"
Posted by: Pappy   2015-03-23 12:49  

#8  the local mom-n-pop or local coffee shop No thanks, I'd rather drink muddy water flavored with diesel fuel.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418    2015-03-23 12:44  

#7  Short lived consciousness raising. Never made it to a Starbucks for this short-lived affair--thank goodness.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-03-23 09:22  

#6  No big loss - they burn their stuff anyway - way over-roasted compared to Daz Bog coffee in Denver (far better roasts and beans IMHO).

Go elsewhere. Boycott Starbicks and get decent cup at Dunkin or KispyKreme, or better yet, the local mom-n-pop or local coffee shop.
Posted by: OldSpook   2015-03-23 03:38  

#5  In 1998, Schultz was awarded the "Israel 50th Anniversary Tribute Award" from the Jerusalem Fund of Aish Ha-Torah for "playing a key role in promoting a close alliance between the United States and Israel".

A reward for not bringing Starbucks to Israel, ou rooinek.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-03-23 02:14  

#4  Next step, they start selling actual coffee?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-03-23 02:09  

#3  From Wik: In 1998, Schultz was awarded the "Israel 50th Anniversary Tribute Award" from the Jerusalem Fund of Aish Ha-Torah for "playing a key role in promoting a close alliance between the United States and Israel".


Lifelong democrat and pandering activist, unless I've missed my guess.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-03-23 02:09  

#2  Why do I feel like walking into a Starbucks and ordering a coffee, black?
Posted by: Raj   2015-03-23 00:38  

#1  The leftists of the Democratic Party — the party of slavery; the party of the Ku Klux Klan; the party of Jim Crow; the party of segregation; the party of a welfare state that destroyed the black family in ways the most evil slaver could only dream of; the party of abortion, which snuffs out more black lives than heart attacks and cancer combined — call us racist when we oppose them. - Andrew Klavan

Remember - group punishment is wrong and broad brushing whole groups of people for the acts of a few is wrong unless the Left does it to assuage it's own guilt. Then you're stuck on the bus with them. This has never been about a 'conversation'. It's about making people agree with them regardless of the truth.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-03-23 00:14  

00:00