Don't Take Howard Schultz Too Seriously When It Comes to 'Race Together' Talk : The Very White World Update

Robert Wenzel reports on Starbucks CEO Robert Wenzel:

And as for Schultz himself, the city he lives in, Seattle, is a pretty white part of the country. It is only 7.9% black, but Schultz has managed to find a section of the city to live in that has an even lower black population. He lives in an area known as Madison Park, where of its 1,538 residents only 80 are black.

But his part of this exclusive area is even more exclusive. It is a gated community of nine houses. Schultz paid $21.7 million for his. Do you want to venture a guess as to how many of the other eight homeowners in his double-exclusive area are black?

So the next time you head into a Starbucks and a barista wants to talk about the state of race relations in America, on the orders of showman Schultz, put on a little show yourself and ask the barista when Schultz is going to move into a more diverse area of Seattle and when is he going to start paying Starbucks “partners”, like partners instead of grunts.

The fact of the matter is that Schultz is talking nonsense. He doesn’t care about racial diversity or “race together”. He doesn’t come close to it when assembling his senior staff or at his home. In his life, he is running, if you look at this from the way people like Schultz measure things, “Race Separation,” which is fine with me. And, he is too damn scared to put a Starbucks in Ferguson. He is a showman. He knows how to get attention, just like, let me think, Al Sharpton.

Imagine that.