Posted on 06/14/2023 8:55:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In these dark days, I keep looking for stories promising that America is emerging from the madness that has enveloped her. One of those stories just emerged from New Jersey, of all places, where a jury awarded a white woman $25 million after concluding that Starbucks fired her on racial grounds. Given how leftists have wielded the charge of “racism” as both a shield and sword in their efforts to remake a constitutional, color-blind America, this is a heartening outcome.
Four years ago, Starbucks was in the news when two men claimed to have been the victims of discrimination after the staff in a Philly Starbucks refused to let them use the restroom and then called the cops on them. Despite the claims from the usual race hustlers in the media and society at large, the facts were a bit more complicated.
Back then, Starbucks' policy was that restrooms were for customer use only. These men were not customers but, when they were refused access to the restrooms, they became so obstreperous that the staff felt it had no option but to call the police.
There was another fact that was almost universally excluded from contemporaneous reports: The manager of the Starbucks in which the men were “victims of racism” was black.
Certainly, Starbucks didn’t want to make a big deal out of the manager’s race. Instead, it wanted to do obeisance in the face of the media outcry to prove that it was not a racist outlet. That’s why the CEO, Kevin Johnson, flew to Philly to apologize personally to the men.
Johnson didn’t stop there. He also cut into Starbucks’ earnings by shutting all 8,000 U.S.-based stores so that the 175,000 employees could be trained about their “unconscious bias.”
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Swords and scalpels and scythes all are dangerous to the one wielding as to the one "targeted."
I think the Left is always surprised when "consequences" bubble up, because they so rarely see them in advance.
We cheer when the occasional ruling goes a “conservative” way - but its still an activist court, making outrageous awards, getting involved with on stupid corporate management decisions, using progressive-left social-engineering mandates.
Ok people this is what we’ve always been up against. It took 50 years to stand up to this $hit and we’re finally getting some justice. The jury has decided. Starbucks didn’t. Will the woke butt kissers learn? Probably not. $25 million is a drop in the bucket to them.
MSM won’t cover it other than a low blurb. They’re always first to yell fire when there isn’t one.
Agreed. This court result makes one both cheer and cry at the same time. The “punitive” award will be used just as hotly against the next business as it was against Starbucks.
There is a delightful elderly black woman who lives in our neighborhood. She tells everyone that she moved here to get away from blacks in the ‘hood. Her kids visit regularly to check up on her. Usually, one of the men in the neighborhood (including me) has her walk shoveled after a snowstorm before the kids arrive.
25 million for losing a Starbucks job? Seems a bit excessive.
good for her.
Yea, I'm glad she won but 25 mil? I can't see how they could possibly justify such an award. Even if they were guilty of punitive damages at X3 it's still ridiculas.
Think just for a minute. Let’s say the manager and the 2 blacks are friends. They set this up. They then split the $25 million.
I agree juries have a hard time doing math.
At 40 thousand a year for 40 years is only 1,600,000.
Or what even her yearly pay was times what ever her working life span.
If she kept the same job
Americans are sick of the race card and of creepy sexxual weirdo masochistic white men.
While I despise Starbucks in every way, this is ridiculous. Maybe they did do this woman wrong, but she wouldn’t have made 25 million dollars working for Starbucks in TEN lifetimes. I hate these lawyers judges and juries that throw other people’s money at ‘victims’ for orders of magnitude times the amount of the actual damages.
I thought there could be no racial discrimination against whites?
This isn’t that manager, it was a VP way above her.
It’s less than Oberlin was made to pay Gibson’s Bakery ($35.59 million).
She was regional manager of 100 stores so she was mid/upper management #1.
Number 2, punitive damages have nothing to do with “compensatory damages” but rather are a biting punishment for egregious disregard of the letter AND spirit of a given law.
Not to the contingent lawyers.
Some would feel it should have been 50 mil @ 50%
In the meanwhile her lifetime earnings with her skill set might have been three quarters of a million.
Now add that 25 to the cost of your morning coffee!
“25 million for losing a Starbucks job? Seems a bit excessive.”
Not at all.
First, had the award been maybe $5000 plus legal costs it would have never made the news. Second, it sets a costly precedent and if Starbuck’s does it again it will cost them more the next time. Plus it’s costing them business with people like me who refuse to patronize businesses that hate white people.
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