Starbucks Races In And Out

Perhaps you already heard of Starbucks' decision to have their employees engage customers in discussions on race?

While many have found ways to mock the idea, I went to work on what I would say.

The best answer so far came as the result of an off-color joke I recently heard. Not an insulting or even, by traditional standards, (though certainly by wacko progressive standards), racist joke; poignant. Forget the joke, you have probably heard it already. The value I pulled from it is in how differing groups deal with adversity. Thus my question would be all the conversation I would permit, were I to go into a Starbucks, and, on said unexpected visit, were I to be drawn into a conversation on race.

My question is simple. Why is it that even though the Irish have suffered all manner of discrimination they have managed to get everyone wanting to be Irish on St. Patrick's Day?

It is a thought question. Not readily answered. maybe even rhetorical and seeking no spoken answer. The answer is in the heart of all sincere people.