For years, @Starbucks has been flying out white managers to do poverty tours of their coffee grower's farms and farm workers.
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And also for years, white
@Starbucks managers have been tweeting and Instagraming about their poverty tours like it's so kewl. -
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@Starbucks's@MulliganBecky who tweeted about farmers making 50¢ a day: https://twitter.com/MulliganBecky/status/296615537901977602 …#RaceTogetherpic.twitter.com/nXb0XbsrfU
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Or take
@Starbucks's@RSopkin who also tweeted about farmers making 50¢ a day: https://twitter.com/RSopkin/status/296614657471442944 …#RaceTogetherpic.twitter.com/fbNKcKc7e9
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Why does
@Starbucks think it's ok for their farmers in Costa Rica, all people of color, to break their backs for 50¢ a day?#RaceTogether -
It would take a Costa Rican farmworker more than 115,000 years to make as much as
@Starbucks CEO@HowieBucks does in one year.#RaceTogether -
And it would take a Costa Rican farmworker 3.5 days to make enough money to afford the cheapest cup of coffee at
@Starbucks#RaceTogether -
A lot of people assume that race and capitalism aren't intimately linked.
#RaceTogether reminds you just how much they are. - 1 more reply
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