Oh boy, this should be interesting…. I might just have to start buying that overpriced coffee.

It would be far more than generally delicious if one of those insufferable hipster students -majoring in advanced lesbian dance theory- would begin to pontificate their critical race beliefs upon my Ethiopian bean juice..

(Via WaPo) […] In partnership with USA Today, Starbucks has launched a week-long campaign under the banner “Race Together” to get staff and customers talking about race. In a video message, Schultz urges “partners” to write the phrase on their paper cups “to facilitate a conversation between you and our customers.” A USA Today supplement, set to be published March 20, includes a number of “conversation starters,” including the fill-in-the-blank question: “In the past year, I have been to the home of someone of a different race ___ times.”

You can imagine a group of feel-good liberals sitting around a Starbucks boardroom table discussing their magnanimous plans to ‘school-the-world’ via café speeches on race relations delivered by the Starbucks baristas. BRILLIANT.

This idea is an absolutely perfect representative example of liberal arrogance.

[…]  The idea for “Race Together” apparently came from employee forums Schultz launched last December. The first was impromptu, inspired by the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the conversations about racial inequality that surrounded them. It went so well, Schultz said, that the company organized similar events in five other cities.

“At the end of every open forum partners have come up to me and said ‘We must do more,’” Schultz said in his video. “… The fact that you have asked me, encouraged me, is why I have so much faith that this is the right decision for our company.” (read more)

Oh man, this program needs it’s own #Hashtag and U-Tube channel.

This is going to be fun.