Is Starbucks Racist?

[SunsetBengal]

(04-17-2018, 09:35 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The issue at hand with this is that these two people were waiting for a friend, and had expressed that. This is something that happens all the time at these places, and white bystanders expressed that when the two men were being arrested. What happened was racial discrimination likely based on implicit biases.

That doesn't make the company racist. What happened was something that has happened for decades when it comes to the disproportionate application of these sorts of things. We are just in a new era of civil rights where social media has allowed for these incidents to be made more public and for people to share them and react to them in greater numbers.

That may have been their story, but the real issue is loitering and taking up space that could be occupied by paying customers.  I'm pretty sure there was a corporate directive, instructing inner city Starbucks Managers to get rid of the loiterers.  So, these guys just happen to be Black, in Philadelphia.  What a coincidence..  Doesn't make the Manager's actions racist, she was just following company line.