Definitely don't ask for it in Spanish!

Customer: “can I get a coffee, black?”

Robinson: “can’t you see I’m talkin, white?”

Zach and Miri make a porno, right? Knew the bit in the comic was familiar
- It is indeed

I'll take an African American coffee.

African Americano

Come on 🤨
- El americano es negro.🤨
You've just offended the Jamaican guy who doesn't have US citizenship.
- That's okay, he won't be here for much longer come next year.
- Literally no Latin or center American will be offended by the word negro
“Black” just works as a better term. It’s hilarious when people refer to black folks from other countries as “African American.”

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone offended by being called “black.”
- If white is not offensive, why would black be offensive? It makes no sense.
- "Black" being considered offensive was a thing in the late 90's, but it didn't last.

(Rebranded to "Nito" a while back)
- Back when I was a kid, "bimbo" was another slur for black people.
- It's weird that a bag of beans tells you it's black coffee. Like, yeah, of course it is, but I can add milk, cream or olive oil to it if I want.

In latin america we say "Mi negro, mi flaco, mi gordo, mi pelado" ("My black, my skinny, my fatty, my baldie") and could not care less. Sometimes even to strangers.

Wow, I was way off. ☹️ I guessed "My flaccid black penis is named Gordo".
- Nice
In French gros/mon gros can be a familiar term of endearment, but it mostly doesn't matter how fat the guy really is.

The most american post I've seen so far

Needs more guns
- Needs more white upper class guilt sprinkled with subtle racist tones

Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?

Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?

¿Cómo se dice "black" en español?
- I think the Spanish word for black is N
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- Not next to the word coffee, is how.
- I live in Latin America and order cafe negro al the time. It's not pronounced like negro is in English.
Personally, I’d be like “what the fuck are talking about?”
...where's your instrument?

In Spanish we ask for a café negro or café negrito all the time and guess how many people are offended about it? Zero.

Nobody is offended by it in English, either. This comic is, y'know, a joke.
- Believe it or not, I've met two white people, both from the Southern U.S., who would look around and whisper the word "black" when they used it. When talking about black people, but also in other contexts.
I’m guessing you don’t remember a few years back when a YouTuber got upset about a country called “Montenegro”?

Never underestimate the power of Americans to get offended, especially on another’s behalf.
- Or ufc fighter John Jones getting offended by skinny negro jeans.
- I never knew that happened. My god, people have become unhinged with the class guilt
I’m also pretty sure the N word got derived from that general base of “negro = black”.
Because you don't suffer from the White Savior Industrial Complex and its' war on words.

Won't you please think of the poor rich white people who are certain that everybody is weak and offended by everything?

This week in imagined things that don't actually happen.

Literally this

Used to go to a coffee shop where the barista would say, "You want it black, like me?"

did he give you one of these too

This is dumb, like really really dumb. So dumb it's unrecognizable from conservative propaganda about how the libs are too triggered to even order black coffee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdjEhb-2MFo

should've gotten tea

White, please.
- Negro, please

skinny flat white, like my women

...an espresso?

Espresso != A regular black coffee. Espresso is way more concentrated, and is brewed using pressure. Regular black coffee implies the drip method.
- Or Perc. Black coffee could mean perc. But that really only happens in places that still think it’s the 50’s.
  
  (No judgement. Those diners are amazing, and better coffee than fartbucks.)
- In your area, that may be true. Around here, and by experience in a good chunk of southern Europe, asking for a coffee will get you an espresso 100% of the time.
  
  Asking for drip coffee will probably get you scorned and sent off, or if they're nice they may offer to make you instant coffee if they have it.
- for the rest of the world normal is espresso and the thing with drip or wtv doesn't even exist.

So what does BLM stand for again?

In Spain we don’t ask for café negro (but reading the comments now I learned that in other spanish speaking countries do), we just ask for coffee (anything else is a modificator) or to remark that we just coffee without anything else we ask for a solo.

But I cannot speak for the whole country, it varies a lot from region to region the names for ordering coffee, maybe in some parts do in fact say café negro.

"Never mind, I'll just have a white ~~guilt~~ tea."

Pretty much just “coffee” or the specific name for the type…I’ve never even thought to order it “black”. Just con leche, cafecito, etc.

We call that "an American" coffee in Mexico, as in un café americano or un americano. It used to trip me up because I expected café negro. Odd regionalisms, I guess.
- Americano is usually espresso watered down most everywhere, no? I guess I just assume it’s not what Americans generically call “black coffee” which is drip coffee. If I ordered Americano most places outside the US I’d expect the espresso version, not drip.

How is saying black bad?

A regular coffee is 1 cream and 1 sugar, so the sentence in the first panel is a command. He's even pointing at the guy while he says it. The nasty racist then backtracks when he notices the barrista's cold dead stare and realizes he is large enough to snap him in half.

I'm just joking around, but really the more I think about that first panel, the more it annoys me.

edit: I wasn't seriously considering this a racist comic, but pointing out a widely used label and grammar will make the first panel hilariously ironic to many people.

"Regular" being the size.
- The term regular size coffee implies the existence of irregular size coffee
I think that's regional, maybe to east coast US (or just NYC)? Anywhere else I've been in the US "regular coffee" referred to black coffee.
- I'm in Western Canada. As an example, Tim Horton's calls a regular coffee 1 cream and 1 sugar nationally.
  
  But, I was only pointing this out because it's funny considering the point the comic is trying to make.

Now go look in that box of Crayola for the one that's gonna trigger the SJWs to fight against a language because some hillbillies used a word as a slur and now live rent-free in everyone's heads.

I appreciate your takes on these things. It always gives me a huge boost of self confidence.
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