https://contemporaryracism.org/3294/caffeine-and-a-call-for-unity/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Mon, 23 Apr 2018 18:59:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/3294/caffeine-and-a-call-for-unity/comment-page-1/#comment-806 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:37:38 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=3294#comment-806 I was not aware of this change in cup design or the controversy of it, so it makes me happy to hear that Starbucks is making a statement like this. However, I am honestly a little disturbed that people are offended by a cup that symbolizes unity. If someone thinks of a unity cup as something that directly targets their political group, isn’t that a sign that maybe that political group, or at least what that person believes that political group to stand for, isn’t so great? I agree with you on the implications of the reactions to this cup. If people are interpreting this as “political brainwashing,” as in Starbucks is trying to brainwash people to support unity/diversity, then this just represents how deeply in trouble this country is.

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