Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: "I'll have a french vanilla cappuccino & a muffin, hold the 'race reality check'!"

Episode Date: March 21, 2015

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You're listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. I can't take the Starbucks thing. I'm sorry. I wasn't going to talk about it. I got other things to discuss with you this morning and beyond, but I can't take it. Then I go to the Blaze and they're showing me, you know, Dana Lash had the race relations reality check, your race quiz. Then they still want, Starbucks is doubling down with their hash. Hashtag race together campaign.

How about we hashtag race track campaign? And I get my coffee there. How about that? How about I hashtag backup off me? Okay. Do not. Oh, my gosh. I do not.

First of all, Starbucks. Really? You have 12,000 stores. You're going to double down on this? I know for a fact, I shouldn't break this because Starbucks will probably come down hard. But I know here in the metroplex of where I live, the particular Starbucks closest to the Mercury Studios most definitely have not started the race together campaign. They want, especially in the AM, when there's plenty. of people in line waiting to get their coffee, waiting to get their order, well, they just

keep the line moving. People don't want to talk about things. People don't want to talk about things that are important when they're in the line of coffee. Just give me the coffee. I know. I know we have to all get along. I know. I know the country's on fire.

I know. I know I've got to care about my country. kids education and the board of education. I know I've got a I've got I know I have to worry about the local politics and my taxes and the federal politics and the government and the and the congressmen and the senators and the state reps and the state sentence and the city councilman. I know. I know I have to be concerned about following all kinds of regulations and laws. I know. I know. I just want my French vanilla cappuccino, please. That's all.

I came here. I want my French vanilla cappuccino. I want to leave. Take my money, and I want to leave. If you're going to continue, I'm going to race track. Okay? Oh, but Jeff, I'm going to Dunkin' Donuts. But Jeff, those places are just not as good of coffee as Starbucks.

Yeah, they are. Well, how come you come to Starbucks? then. I don't know, maybe because there's 12,000 stores in every corner I turn. There's a Starbucks, so I figure, hey, it's easy. I'll go here. It's convenient. I'll get my French vanilla cappuccino here. But if you're going to continue to give me the race relations reality check, where do you stand? Use these conversation starters with your family and friends. My parents had blank friends of a different race. I have blank friends of a different race. My children have blank friends of a different race. Blank members of a different race live on my block or apartment building. I most often talk to someone of another race at work, church, home, shopping, school. In my Facebook stream, blank percentage are of a different race.

In the past year, I have been to the home of someone of a different race. race blank times. In the past year, someone of a different race has been in my home, blank times. At work, we have managers of blank different races. In the past year, I have eaten a meal with someone of a different race, blank times. Now what? Answer these questions and be a part of this conversation, hashtag race together. How have your racial views evolved from those of your parents?

Did you have a childhood friend of a different race that you've lost touch with? Why? What is America's greatest race challenge? Now, I could answer every one of those. And I could answer them seriously. Or I could make a joke of them. How have your racial views evolved from those of your parents? Well, I thought they'd evolved quite a bit.

but since people like you continue to drive home the fact that we have to be concerned about race every damn minute of the day, I think we've gone backwards. We haven't evolved at all. Did I hear my parents and my relatives use racial slurs? Yes. Even as a child, I said, that's not, that, you know, no, no. I go to school and play sports and no Did I say something to my dad and my uncle?

Guess what? Not as a kid. No. I didn't want to land on my butt. I kind of wanted to remain standing and drinking my soda. Okay? Did you have a childhood friend of a different race that you've lost touch with? Why?

Yes. And guess what? childhood friends of the same race and different genders that I've lost touch with because why? Oh, I don't know. I evolved. I moved away. They died.

What is America's greatest race challenge? People like you that keep drudging up the damn race challenge. We've been divided so much in the last 10 years that whatever we gained

30 years prior has almost come apart. Do I think it's completely apart? No, I don't. Because if we go back to the question that was part of the race relations reality check, where it says, uh, blank members of a different race live on my block or apartment building, I don't know. Let's see. My neighborhood. My gosh. Different races in my neighborhood.

neighborhood. Let's just start with my street. Okay? Sure. One, two, let's see, three black families, a family from Mexico, one, two, three families from America that are white in your eyes. And guess what? All the kids play with each other. We talk. We have fun. We've gone into each other's homes. It's amazing what happens when we just are part of our neighborhood. And you know what? else, there's a lot of times when everyone just wants to be left alone on their own property, in their own home, because that's what they have, and that's what America is for. Pull into your driveway, wave to your neighbor. Do you want to talk today? No, I want to get my mail and go in the house and be left alone. Okay? If you want to be outside, pulling your

weeds, you go right ahead. I am not doing that today. I can't. I have to breathe now because I'm really about to get really angry. I am so appalled at having things rammed it down my throat, especially this race division that's been brought up in this country. Do we have some problems? You know, we have to do the obligatory. Do we have problems?

Yeah, of course we have problems. Yeah, of course. There's always problems. Yeah, yeah, we do. Yeah, we do, but guess what? It's not the 60s anymore. It's not the 50s anymore. Everyone does have a chance.

Everyone can succeed. Everyone can just become, you know, have a chance to succeed and be great. Or you could have a good job and raise a family and live in a nice neighborhood. And it doesn't matter. Because if you have a nice job and you work hard, you can live anywhere you damn well want. because guess what? It's America. And that's one of the things that makes America America.

It's not China. We're not telling you you have to live here and you have to do that and you have to go here. No, not yet. But if we continue to divide, that's what's going to happen. And it'll be, oh my gosh, it'll be blamed on, oh, because we had all these divisions. No, it's because you and you know who you are, they, them, the race baiters. you know who you are. And I know that it sounds cliche.

Can't we all just get along? You know what? For the most part, we do. We do. Everyone gets along. Why? Because everyone wants to just go to the store and get their groceries and say hello and pay for them and go home. And everyone wants to go, oh, you know what?

I'm really thirsty and I need some caffeine today and maybe a muffin. So I'll stop in to, I'll go to this drive-through, Starbucks, and I'll stop in, and I'll get my French Vanilla Cappuccino. And by the way, I wish someone would deliver me a French vanilla cappuccino because I could really use one right now because I've mentioned it about eight times, and it sounds fantastic right now. So just deliver it outside and set it outside the building, and I'll be out there in a couple minutes and pick up my French vanilla cappuccino.

That'd be great. Thank you. And I just want to get my coffee. Just want to get my coffee. Let me have my little muffin. Let me pay for it. And let me be on my way. Thank you.

Have a nice day. I don't care if the person behind the counter, behind the window is black, red, yellow, blue, wears an outfit, dresses like Spider-Man, dresses like Wonder Woman. Who's a guy that dresses like Wonder Woman? I don't care. I really don't. Will I comment if the guy is dressed like Wonder Woman? You bet. You bet.

I will not let something like that go. And it doesn't matter whether the guy dressed like Wonder Woman is red, yellow, black, blue, green. I don't care. I do care that, dude, you dress like Wonder Woman? What are you doing that for? Oh, really? No, that's kind of cool. Is that my French vanilla cappuccino and a muffin?

Yeah. Thank you. Have a good day. Good luck.