Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 14:05 last edited by
https://afru.com/coffee-industry-racism-white-supremacy/
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Is coffee racist? How drinking coffee perpetuates white supremacy*
Created by Black people for Black people—and now a pillar of white supremacist capitalism. If you consume coffee, you are helping an industry built on racism.
BY AFRU STAFF
If you’re a person of color, you know what I’m talking about. You walk into a new coffee shop and your senses are overwhelmed with whiteness and you get the glare from the Karens. The white hipster barista lines herself up between you and the bathrooms, ready to tell you non-customers aren’t welcome.
If you have a white coffee drinking friend, he or she may have even let you in on the old coffee joke white coffee drinkers share when PoC aren’t around: “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.”
Well, I’m here to validate your lived experience; coffee is in fact horribly racist, and there’s data to back it up.
Every facet of the coffee industry, in fact, is rooted in racism. From the moment the whites viciously stole coffee from Black and Brown People to the present-day Karen sipping her morning cup of white supremacy, whites have been able to drink the fruits of our labor and our culture with impunity..
More at the link
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 14:12 last edited by
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..
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 14:19 last edited by
Sweet. Good to know I can perpetuate white supremacy even before I shower in the morning.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 14:36 last edited by
“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”
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 14:39 last edited by
@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.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 14:45 last edited by
I added cream to mine.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 14:49 last edited by
I did my bit for white power this morning. And I made it strong.
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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..
wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 16:25 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 19 Mar 2023, 23:51 last edited by
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2023, 00:04 last edited by
@mark said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
Technological appropriation.
Please love yourself.
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@mark said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
Technological appropriation.
wrote on 20 Mar 2023, 00:07 last edited byYeah, but it’s all black!
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Yeah, but it’s all black!
wrote on 20 Mar 2023, 00:09 last edited by@Mik said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Yeah, but it’s all black!
AND the coffee. He's drinking Blackdrink.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2023, 00:11 last edited by
Fucking whigger.
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@mark said in Everything is Racist - Coffee Edition:
Whatever. Here's my newest setup for making tasty coffee.
Technological appropriation.
wrote on 20 Mar 2023, 00:19 last edited by@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.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2023, 00:44 last edited by
Just stick around here. We’ll roast yer beans for ya.
