As Twitchy reported earlier, 8,000 Starbucks stores will close for an afternoon in May to conduct racial-bias education for employees after police arrested two black men at a Philadelphia location.
The idea of an afternoon without Starbucks got one man thinking how that will serve as “white penance” and show white people how racism affects them as well.
Starbucks is taking away coffee for a day. Maybe NOW white people will see that racism impacts them as well. 🙂 #ADayWithoutCoffee #WhitePenance https://t.co/TLq2bmXvYR
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) April 17, 2018
Lol…this is parody right? https://t.co/oVMYsFrohp
— ?yvonneburton ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@_YvonneBurton) April 17, 2018
Is this a joke? https://t.co/T9lT6ZtGrb
— Keith ??? Burton (@bbeekk321) April 17, 2018
Hey congratulations! ? This is the dumbest thing I’ve read all day. And I looked through Alyssa Milano’s TL, so… https://t.co/k9XL25kNJR
— Lizzy Lou Who☃️❄️ (@_wintergirl93) April 17, 2018
No, we didn’t miss the smiley face at the end of Mystal’s tweet, but the idea of having to go an afternoon without a Starbucks soy latte did get some white people thinking, including misfitspolitics.com’s Mo Mo:
That day without Starbucks is forever seared in my memory. I stood in line at Dunkin Donuts, clutching my coach wallet in my shaking hands. https://t.co/oIyLrVnkB6
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
A single tear trickled down my cheek as I stepped to the counter. In a shaky whisper, I asked for a Venti Americano.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
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The clerk gave me a puzzled look. "What's a venti?" he barked. I startled and more tears came.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
"I think it's a large?" I sputtered, as he stared impatiently at me. He sighed, turned around and began pouring coffee from a CARAFE into a STYROFOAM CUP. I couldn't believe what I was witnessing.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
He turned to me. "Do you want cream?" HE WAS GOING TO PUT CREAM IN MY COFFEE FOR ME.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
My whole body was trembling as tears streamed down my face. "Okay," I croaked, wishing it would end.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
He rang me up and asked for $2.50. I couldn't believe my ears. "What sort of coffee costs less than five dollars?" I thought and shuddered at the horror.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
I handed him a five dollar bill and stuffed the change in the tip jar, feeling guilt at the reasonably priced coffee.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
As I turned to leave, he said "Have a nice day." I shook my head and shuffled out, staring aghast at the styrofoam cup in my hand.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
As I looked up, I glanced the eye of Rebecca from my Piyo class. We both quickly looked away in shame and I quickly shuffled out the door.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
I never went back to Piyo and never spoke of that day again.
— Mo Mo (@molratty) April 17, 2018
Literally shaking in sympathy rn
— Pierre in Philthadelphia (@ASexybritches) April 17, 2018
we can all only thank God it isn’t pumpkin spice season.
— texas tweedy (@tweedylouwho) April 17, 2018
Needs to be narrated by Morgan Freeman on a Ken Burns documentary: Starbucks, the Rise and Fall
— Chris Wray (@chriswray3) April 17, 2018
"Dearest Martha,
All is quiet but jittery on the front this day. My hand, heretofore accustomed to the comforting warmth of a chai latte, hangs now at my side, oscillating quick as the wings of a bird. All around me men quaver like reeds, bereft of that Seattle ambrosia."
— N. Bourbaki (@d08890) April 17, 2018
So much white privilege in the comments:
There's literally no other place in the entire world where you can get coffee https://t.co/IdDXz1DRlm
— Currently between fraudulent suspensions (@jtLOL) April 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/JohnBurtner/status/986355262444498944
Smart people of all colors make their own coffee. https://t.co/DZzw7Z5igR
— JWF (@JammieWF) April 17, 2018
I'm not sure but I *think* you can get coffee other places, too, or even make your own. But I am not from NYC so there is lots I don't know. https://t.co/ndMJuiSX4f
— MC Fraught (@DeadLantern) April 17, 2018
My house has coffee https://t.co/KuJOzfTWfY
— WeAreTheDead (@Qu3stionQu3st) April 17, 2018
https://twitter.com/cultchop_13/status/986375306666704897
I hate to break the bad new to you, but 99.9% of ppl wont give a damn, they'll go somewhere else to get their coffee and on the plus side will save some money as Starbucks is ridiculous. Also, "woke" @Starbucks brought this on themselves. https://t.co/GHQ9OzCm1A
— Joe (@JoeC1776) April 17, 2018
The horror, there'll be douchebag hipsters roaming all over, they might find a decent place and ruin it…… https://t.co/hnoURvI7Pw
— Iain the other Goat. (@iain_claxton) April 17, 2018
I have a day without Starbucks every day because I have to pay rent and shit. https://t.co/6xxHMH5w4O
— Phil Kessel is a 2X Stanley Cup Champion. (@Oenonewept) April 17, 2018
Starbucks could disappear and we’d all be fine https://t.co/0R2Ykmntgs
— Soylentblue (@soylentblue) April 17, 2018
Woe is me. https://t.co/l9EkEiTUrp
— Federalist Musket?? (@Patriot_Musket) April 17, 2018
PR posturing only.
1) Your company is not responsible for teaching you what your parents, or peers, or reality, in general, should have.
2) Statistics show, these types of "training" don't actually improve outcomes, but they help shield the company in lawsuits. ??♀️ https://t.co/7Ede9Remzq— Jellenne (@jellen805) April 17, 2018
Not sure about the reach of "closing the stores on the day after Memorial Day, one of the lowest foot-traffic days for hospitality of the year, and then only in the afternoon, the slowest part of every day" tbqh. https://t.co/bqP7e0PqUP
— (((≠))) (@ThomasHCrown) April 17, 2018
Related:
'No sympathy AT ALL'! Starbucks keeps BECLOWNING itself with new plan to combat 'racial bias' https://t.co/gPEpzbtCz3
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 17, 2018
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