I think people knowing that they have support and protection makes a huge difference. It’s putting your money where your mouth is. It’s a form of peaceful protest like any other.

Don't make that promise, it's false. They've been tear gassing and assaulting white protestors in Seattle and Portland, with white protestors being beaten down with trudgeons while on the ground unprovoked.

It's still important to go, but let's stop pretending being white gives you protection. Being POC is a target, being against cops makes you a target, and being white doesn't give you a free pass from it.

The thing is, I can do both. I can do all of these things. And wearing BLM shirts is supporting Black community, directly. Immediately. I think messages of protest and solidarity and support and unrest are extremely important right now, not just for BPOC to see, but for everyone to see. Especially when you work for a company that refuses to take a stand and is instead leaning on mandated copaganda/“not all cops” rhetoric.

Love this.

I don’t need political power to care. I don’t want to write on cups, I want people to know on sight that they are safe here. People are scared. And lots of people care what their baristas think; people ask all the time. When you work at a coffee shop, half of your job is building relationships with customers, listening to their problems, etc.

maybe you don’t care about the values of the people who “serves you your coffee” but outside of that coffee shop, they are either the people who choose to fight for the minority or the people who are killing them. so you’re implying that people with no political power just don’t matter? this is a country that is (relatively) democratic. the people are supposed to have a voice. yeah, you’re right. let’s all just watch human beings be murdered in cold blood- i’m not the president so i don’t have a say in any of it! what the fuck? is your level of thinking really that shallow? ideas have to start somewhere. shame on you for making someone (who has every GOOD INTENTION, which is very hard to come by nowadays) feel like they don’t matter! if you thought voicing your opinion would have no impact you wouldn’t have written this comment in the first place.

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