Posted on 03/21/2015 6:56:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Congratulations, Internet haters! Well done, keepers of the one-true-way-to-talk-about-race!
If we don't tamp down the backlash against Starbucks "Race Together" campaign, I fear that no major corporation will even try to talk about race again -- for maybe 10 or 20 years.
Is that really what we want?
Look, I get it. Asking baristas to hold conversations about race is a lot to demand of already hard-working employees. Not to mention, the topic should probably be called "systematic racism," not just "race." And there are legitimate questions about what Starbucks could realistically hope to accomplish, here.
But for crying out loud! In the past 48 hours, racial justice activists have spilled more digital ink criticizing Starbucks for trying to fight racism than they have against other (actually racist) companies. The truth is that we cannot have it both ways. We cannot demand that companies address race, and then attack them when they try.
Yes, it seems like harmless fun to pile on or retweet the snark. At some point, all of us have enjoyed the cheap thrill one gets by kicking around a big company online. But the cost this time is that no corporation will want to do anything creative or constructive on racial subjects for a very long time....
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Van Jones became such a lightning rod with his big mouth that Valerie Jarrett had to get rid of him before he did any more damage to the president.
I go to Starbucks ... but if anyone there tries to talk to me about that ... I’m going to tell them to shut up!
Van Jones and his buddies have made racebaiting a blood sport. They can go to hell regarding Starbucks.
Is that what we really want?
Why, yes. Yes it is.
It's going to be a sorry excuse for a "conversation" if it starts with you telling me what to think, sir.
Yes, Valerie had to get rid of him. That was years ago, though, back when the Obama Administration was still pretending to give a damn about what the American People said they did or did not want. Nowadays they simply do not give a >>>K! Oh, and they WANT you to know that.
Vanguard of Communism Jones needs to go help Cuber achieve the zenith of its revolution.
“racial justice activists”
much easier and less effort to say race hustlers....
The whole thing is just an Orwellian, One Minute Hate with whitey on the receiving end of every single rant the grievance industry can conceive.
gimme a black coffee with some white power!
my buddy asked for some Marine coffee at starbucks the other day. they told him the most powerful thing he could get would be iced coffee plus shock
Coffee? I can easily do without it, actually, I never drink it.
I’ve heard no one has done it here in libtard L.A so far, but those close to me who are SB fanatics. I think they knew that that even the most ardent leftard will tell them also to STFU and get them their coffee.. We’re already having problems communicating with these idiots to get a double-shot of espresso so they don;t want to add to the issue..
You mean before you walk out?
Nothing like paying for one’s graffiti-scrawled cup of overpriced burned s### with a snarky lecture about race.
Mr. Jones, how can you expect to be taken seriously when your ideology—Marxism—requires you to lie?
The obvious answer to the problem is find an ideology very different from the one you currently support.
Not this current administration, POS, race-baiting-puppet again.
10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, and should be familiar in its use to every politician as the knife he carries in his pocket. In the work here to be executed, the best effects may be produced by this maxim, and with peculiar facility. An extensive republic made up of lesser republics necessarily contains various sorts of people, distinguished by local and other interests and prejudices.
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
This is probably my last interview about the past. I really do want to remind people that I’m not Paris Hilton. The only reason people cared about me in the first place, before some people made an issue of every dumb thing I ever said or supposedly said, was that I’m a guy with some solutions and some passion for them. That hasn’t changed. - Van Jones
http://grist.org/article/2010-03-25-van-jones-i-feel-like-im-just-getting-started/
Staying relevant, eh bro?
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