Dimensionally Barrett

First, how about slave labor? Consider that your latte or even your regular drip is the result of the work of literal slaves:  https://www.freedomunited.org/news/starbucks-coffee-supply-chain-slavery/ Why are workers at 65 stores striking? Here:  https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/starbucks-workers-us-strike-union-9.6978532 To learn more,  https://sbworkersunited.org/our-strike/ . Look, I love the gang at the one Starbucks I go to. Some are still working two jobs and while no Houston store is unionized, Dallas’s are. The point is to show solidarity with workers getting the short end of the stick, particularly considering that the company’s CEO made 6,666 times what the rank and file employee earned as of 2024. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/starbucks-ceo-worker-pay-ratios_n_68a7446ee4b05d94cb3787bb Please join me in NOT buying ANYTHING from Starbucks until the strike is over. (Given the slave labor thing, my boycott’s going on longer); support a local cafe instead.

The Reverend Al Sharpton devised this as an action to protest the attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion that we’re seeing swiftly erased from policies across the board and used as a cudgel by the regime to bring corporations to heel. What critics of DEI don’t seem to  understand is how necessary it is. They don’t seem to understand that the reason affirmative action policies and programs exist is to level the playing field, to open up opportunities for all Americans so that they cannot be discriminated against because of race, gender, disability, or age. DEI is being used by the hardline conservatives as a term of derision or to use as an example of how much Democrats and liberals have rotted the fabric of America. The issue is that the fabric has been fraying for decades. Freed slaves were met with Jim Crow, immigrants were met with xenophobia in the form of legislation like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, homosexuality was a crime, and women couldn’t get a credit card wit...