White chicks can often be seen in the wild carrying a little white cup with a green mermaid– a sure symbol of status for a white chick.

The Starbucks cup says three things about a white chick. She’s independent (she can afford preposterously priced coffee), she’s savvy (she knows a “hot” product), and she’s got a really awesome/busy life that requires high levels of caffeine intake at all times. This explains why a white chick about town is seldom seen sans little white cup.

As an added bonus, Starbucks also carries fair trade coffee. We can then feel humanitarian without actually knowing whether or not our order was fair-trade, or what that really even means. Should a white chick of the hippy variety challenge us, we also have a means to defend ourselves. Justification in exchange for a few dollars per cup? Sounds like a fair trade to me…

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NOTE: LA-based white chicks may deflect to the Coffee Bean.