Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition
-
Okay, a few more highlights…
It’s a well-known fact that whites would be eating bland food, like plain bread and gruel, if it weren’t for their theft of culinary secrets from people of color, and especially Black folks. That’s precisely why when the whites found out about coffee, it became one of the reasons they decided to victimize and appropriate Black civilization wholesale.
It’s not just that Black folks cannot afford specialty coffee, but the very acceptance of the term “specialty coffee” suggests that some coffee is somehow superior to others, an idea that is rooted in whiteness. Values like “hard work creates better products” is an white supremacist idea that is constantly forced upon people of color and justifies stereotypes like the myth of “laziness” in people of color.
And let’s not forget that so-called progressive coffee shops fail to pay a living wage. The average salary for a barista in Portland, OR is a measly $23,000. To put it short: think twice before entering your local anti-capitalist coffee shop. Despite their anarchist demagoguery, they’re trying to exploit people of color just like the 19th century colonialists..
The Brad
-
“there are three things that are necessary in order to make a cup of coffee, and they are: first, a black man to roast the coffee; second, a yellow man to grind it; and third, a white man to drink it.””
I hate when they ruin a joke. They completely missed “a white person of indeterminate gender to serve the coffee”
-
@jon-nyc said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Sweet. Good to know I can perpetuate white supremacy even before I shower in the morning.
I'm doin' it now.
-
Okay, a few more highlights…
It’s a well-known fact that whites would be eating bland food, like plain bread and gruel, if it weren’t for their theft of culinary secrets from people of color, and especially Black folks. That’s precisely why when the whites found out about coffee, it became one of the reasons they decided to victimize and appropriate Black civilization wholesale.
It’s not just that Black folks cannot afford specialty coffee, but the very acceptance of the term “specialty coffee” suggests that some coffee is somehow superior to others, an idea that is rooted in whiteness. Values like “hard work creates better products” is an white supremacist idea that is constantly forced upon people of color and justifies stereotypes like the myth of “laziness” in people of color.
And let’s not forget that so-called progressive coffee shops fail to pay a living wage. The average salary for a barista in Portland, OR is a measly $23,000. To put it short: think twice before entering your local anti-capitalist coffee shop. Despite their anarchist demagoguery, they’re trying to exploit people of color just like the 19th century colonialists..
@LuFins-Dad said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
the very acceptance of the term “specialty coffee” suggests that some coffee is somehow superior to others, an idea that is rooted in whiteness.
^
-
@mark said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
Technological appropriation.
Please love yourself.
-
@mark said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
Technological appropriation.
Yeah, but it’s all black!
-
Yeah, but it’s all black!
@Mik said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Yeah, but it’s all black!
AND the coffee. He's drinking Blackdrink.
-
@mark said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
Technological appropriation.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
@mark said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
Technological appropriation.
Someday, sooner than later, I will roast my own beans.
