#RaceTogether

Starbucks new initiative designed to get people to talk about race has led to dialog, just not the one they had hoped for.

What people are saying:

Starbucks staff in my neighborhood have already spent years doing Nobel-level work on being patient with white people.

anyway, it’s hilarious that #racetogether seems pretty clearly to have been conceived by folks who rarely talk to blacks and latinos.

I stopped paying $5 for a cup of coffee when I learned about child slavery harvesting coffee beans. #RaceTogether

The arrival of Starbucks is typically a key indicator of gentrification in low-income communities. But, #RaceTogether

photo via qz.com