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We can't leave this for someone else. >> that is the starbucks chairman saying why he ps his baristas to start conversations about race. joining me now is jay smooth from race forward. before i give my own feeling on this i will open the floor to nancy. >> it is easy to make fun of him, and there was some funny tweets, but look, the bottom line is that it does need to be talked about. you made a point during the break, but the conversation of race as a concept is clunky and stupid but we have to start somewhere. i think it is cowardly to make fun and mock it and not try to get something starte...

Problems that is great. if we're talking so that we can feel better about talking to each other i don't think -- that is what conversations sometimes are. >> that is not always my experience. sometimes just again illuminating people that i am 6'1", a black woman, and if i get in an elevator sometimes and i'm alone, a white person won't get on the elevator with me. that might not seem like a big deal so some people, but there is a break down and fear thing that goes on that if we talk about it with people we can say holy hell i have done something like that. >> it is necessary but not sufficien...

Not sure what starbucks is thinking, i don't have times to explain 400 years of oppression and still make my train. #racetogether. my own reaction has to do with the great fallacy. i will explain that and talk to jay and nancy, ahead. shopping online is as easy as it gets. ♪ wouldn't it be great if hiring plumbers carpenters and even piano tuners were just as simple? thanks to angie's list, now it is. we've made hiring anyone from a handyman to a dog walker as simple as a few clicks. buy their services directly at angiealist.com. no more calling around. no more hassles.

>> i take issue because one of the board members is melanie hopson who is one of the few black ceos, and she did a talk about being race brave. i think show might have had an influence on the conversation. >> so you sort of buy the general repression narrative. it is a thing we don't talk about and any opportunity to push back -- >> i want to say push it. >> but push past the boundaries. >> for me it is a win-win. even if it is sloppy and messy, let's get something started. >> let me start with this tweet from jay. i do think that putting this on the shoulders of people trying to -- >> here is...

Tore raw. >> not so fast, krystal. a black man like me showing up with a beautiful woman like you. if the goal is to mollify, you want to bring someone dorky, right ari? >> that's right. >> what you don't want to do is remind them about your moral/legal right to be in the store or black economic power, which recent reports put at $1 trillion and upward. don't point out these stories and the analysts who predict all consumers will spend less on gifts this year so them stores need all the shoppers they can get. and whatever you do, please don't mention the fbi statistics on larceny arrests that ...