Is Starbucks Racist?

[Belsnickel]

(04-18-2018, 10:27 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I agree that Starbucks should come forward and take ownership of their policy decision, rather than staging some companywide re-teaching effort for show.  I highly doubt that the directive itself was intended to be racist, but intended to keep loiterers in general from choking out business in those areas.  The fact that people are making an issue of the people involved being black is what is ironic.  If it were white people that refused to leave, no one would likely bat an eye.  They were asked to leave, they refused to go.  At that point, they are lawbreakers.  Why the sympathy and "outrage", simply because of the offender's race?  

Is Starbucks supposed to ignore the fact that they are loitering, because they are black, and that makes it OK? 

I actually don't think the majority of incidents like this, or policies, are intended to be racially biased. This is why I talk so much about implicit biases. These are unconscious biases that do, in fact, guide a lot of our decisions in life. I contend that if these were white people, then cops would not have been called. Even if cops had been called, they would not have responded in the way they did. Those things are the result of implicit racial biases.