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In reply to the discussion: The Starbucks thing... [View all]tonedevil
(3,022 posts)the prediction regarding the store manager missed by a far bit. Starbucks seems to have found a way to fire said manager despite your trepidation ar their being able to be certain the manager is racist. Having an incident already with HR regarding racial issues may have helped. Your blithe unconcern over the equality of enforcement is quaint, like a step back into the Jim Crow era. If white people are allowed to sit and wait without purchase and black people not even you should be able to see that is a problem.
The real missing thing here is that two young men sat down at a Starbucks to meet someone, the same as many other people in the shop tell us they were doing and it results in them being led out in handcuffs and detained for nine hours until charges just evaporated. What is the difference between them and the people who got bathroom codes or sat waiting and didn't get detained for nine hours is one racist manger with a power trip. I have heard the pissing and moaning about how the police had no choice but to fuck up these guys day and maybe that is true with the way things are, but I say fuck that we better get better at getting along and figgure out this equality thing or continue to suffer.