{"id":19693,"date":"2015-03-23T00:30:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19693"},"modified":"2015-03-23T00:32:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T07:32:54","slug":"kevin-moore-on-starbucks-race-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19693","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Moore On Starbucks &#8220;Race Together&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/mooretoons.com\/2015\/03\/22\/hashtag-dissonance\/\">Kevin Moore<\/a> draws and writes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/genocide-together-moore.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/genocide-together-moore-590x786.gif\" alt=\"genocide-together-moore\" width=\"590\" height=\"786\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/genocide-together-moore-590x786.gif 590w, https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/genocide-together-moore-300x400.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the expressions Kevin drew, especially in panel 4.<\/p>\n<p>This reminded me of the discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/18\/jay-smooth-and-nancy-giles-discuss-starbucks-and-talking-race\/\">in comments here<\/a>, where a few posters were (rightly) concerned that Starbucks employees aren&#8217;t paid enough to make this part of their job.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin <a href=\"http:\/\/mooretoons.com\/2015\/03\/22\/hashtag-dissonance\/\">comments<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two hashtag campaigns launched last week on Twitter (where else?) addressing the topic of race. With #racetogether, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz thought it would be a neat idea to use coffee and his low wage workers to \u201cstart a conversation\u201d that neither worker nor customer would ever want, regardless of their respective positions. As I write this I learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/news\/starbucks-scraps-their-race-together-initiative-20150322\">Starbucks has abandoned the project<\/a>, either recognizing it as a failure of good intentions or as a success in meme-driven marketing. \u201cSo long as they spell my name right\u201d publicity, as it were.<\/p>\n<p>The other campaign, #whitegenocide came about this weekend as almost a response to Starbucks invitation to converse about race \u2014 and thereby demonstrating exactly why no one wants to touch the subject in a commercial transaction. These trolls get enough attention on Twitter. And while I hate to give them anymore, as a source of friction in a cartoon, as a way to lampoon the kinds of absurd white victimization claims made by bigots afraid of any kind of inclusion of minorities \u2014 well, the meme was hard to resist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Kevin Moore draws and writes: I love the expressions Kevin drew, especially in panel 4. This reminded me of the discussion in comments here, where a few posters were (rightly) concerned that Starbucks employees aren&#8217;t paid enough to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19699,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19693\/revisions\/19699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}