After just one week, Starbucks employees have been instructed to stop writing “Race Together” on your coffee cups.
CEO Howard Schultz canceled the effort Sunday, after days of pushback against the company’s initiative to start a conversation about race within its more than 20,000 stores....
◼ If you thought the Starbucks ‘race’ campaign couldn’t get worse, you were wrong: Photo of exec team says it ALL - Twitchy
Starbucks' executive team. They are...well...mostly white.
#RaceTogether
http://t.co/j8NPeMVtIt pic.twitter.com/VFNZk0gT1m
— John Groves (@jfgroves) March 20, 2015
.@starbucks is whiter than the Bad Frat in Animal House.
— TheClassyLife (@AceofSpadesHQ) March 20, 2015
◼ That awkward moment when Starbucks lectures on race … by BEING racist; Ace nails it - Twitchy, Who Said What on Twitter
◼ It got worse: How racist is the latest Starbucks race ‘reality check’? THIS racist (It’s jaw-dropping) [photo] - Twitchy
◼ What could have gone wrong? Check out just how great Starbucks race lecture is going [photo] - Twitchy
◼ Hey, Starbucks, how about you discuss THIS? This zinger sums up the absurdity [photo] - Twitchy
I, for one, would love to see Starbucks' clientele discuss how Elizabeth Warren posed as Native American for her own advantage #RaceTogether
— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) March 17, 2015
◼ FAIL! Some people notice something curiously missing from Starbucks ‘Race Together’ campaign photo - Twitchy
◼ How absurd is the Starbucks #RaceTogether campaign? THIS absurd (the ridicule will crack you up) - Twitchy
How about you just give me my coffee. I don't need another lecture on race, Starbucks #RaceTogether
— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) March 17, 2015