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Starbucks CEO meets with two black men arrested in Philadelphia store
NBC News ^ | 4/16/18 | Daniella Silva, Elizabeth Chuck and Morgan Radford

Posted on 04/17/2018 6:23:53 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck

The CEO of Starbucks on Monday met with two black men who were arrested at one of his shops in Philadelphia, as accusations of racism grew against the mammoth coffee chain.

The quickly planned meeting came amid a second day of protests in the City of Brotherly Love, after video of the two getting arrested on suspicion of trespassing went viral

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: race; starbucks
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If I were to walk into any establishment and ask to use the restroom, they would be perfectly in their right to say that the facility is for paying customers only, and to ask me to leave if I'm not purchasing anything. If I were to then refuse to leave, they would be in their right to have me arrested for trespassing and disorderly conduct, and I wouldn't expect the owner or the CEO of the company to come groveling in apology to me afterwards.

Apparently, these very basic and simple rules about conduct and private property rights don't apply to blacks and other special, protected classes of people. Evidently, inner city black hoodlums are so special in the eyes of the elite that even CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have to get on their knees to beg for their approval and forgiveness.

1 posted on 04/17/2018 6:23:53 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Obama’s message: Resist and .


2 posted on 04/17/2018 6:26:36 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Exactly right. Obama’s Presidency, with its nods and winks to militant black nationalism and anti-white hatred, has emboldened every inner city feral to wreak havoc with impunity.


3 posted on 04/17/2018 6:28:09 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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Apparently, these very basic and simple rules about conduct and private property rights don't apply to blacks

Yep, and I hope ghetto SJW establishments become the new gathering place for the homeless and psychotic.

4 posted on 04/17/2018 6:30:00 AM PDT by JonPreston (I post To: "All" because article posters rarely contribute to their own threads)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Black priviledge


5 posted on 04/17/2018 6:30:20 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Professional negros loiter to exclude paying customer accomodation and create a racial incident.

It’s Philadelphia, not America


6 posted on 04/17/2018 6:32:50 AM PDT by bert (RE)
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However, Starbucks advertises itself as a place that you can stay without buying anything. It’s part of their marketing.


7 posted on 04/17/2018 6:33:13 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: antidemoncrat

Yes, loitering on purpose now puts them on an equivalent scale of Rosa Parks’ performance art.


8 posted on 04/17/2018 6:33:26 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: ek_hornbeck

Kevin Johnson=pu$$y


9 posted on 04/17/2018 6:34:25 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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Every time some white liberal Social Justice Warrior tells you to “check your white privilege,” make the following suggestion: they can go to any business establishment, demand to use their facilities without buying anything, and then refuse to leave when told to do so repeatedly. Then they’ll see how far “white privilege” gets you when you’re (rightly) arrested for such a stunt. Then they can compare and contrast their treatment with the treatment these two hoodlums received.


10 posted on 04/17/2018 6:34:39 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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The horror if being asked to leave a Starbucks when you don’t buy anything is the new holocaust. It can potentially become even worse than global warming.


11 posted on 04/17/2018 6:35:05 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Note to David “Little Robespierre” Hogg and Lefties everywhere... your hatred for police is intense!

So... are these “racist” cops who arrested these black men the same cops you’re gonna send to kick my door down and take my guns?


12 posted on 04/17/2018 6:35:10 AM PDT by FiddlePig (The biggest threat to your sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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Resist we mocha!


13 posted on 04/17/2018 6:35:18 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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It’s too funny. This is the company that wanted its barristas to discuss social justice causes with its customers. Now it is getting bit in the ass by one of the privileged classes it was catering to.


14 posted on 04/17/2018 6:35:24 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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Last time I was at starBucks there was a guy hitting on all the guys in the place and demanding hugs. I will not go back. Talk about sexual harassment.
15 posted on 04/17/2018 6:37:11 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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As I understand it, the two men arrived in athletic sweats and asked where the bathroom was. They explained to the questioning manager (who was white and suspected a robbery) that they were waiting on a third person to arrive so they could discuss a business opportunity (yes, I always show up for business meetings in jogging clothes).

The manager summoned the police and while the discussion escalated, the third party arrived and supported the claims of the first two. The police, however, agreed with the manager and led the pair away in handcuffs.

The whole situation could have been handled better. Since it’s uberliberal Starbucks, I don’t give a double latte espresso that they’re being picketed. I’m actually enjoying watching them grovel.


16 posted on 04/17/2018 6:41:16 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (CNN has covered nothing this week except Stormy Daniels and Trump's poll numbers rose 7 points.)
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The last white liberal chick who lectured me on my privilege was invited to date black men in my place.

“That’s different” was all I heard as I was leaving.


17 posted on 04/17/2018 6:44:33 AM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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Funny story..A family member works as a LT. for the NYCDOC. When folks were released from Rikers with no address, they’d send them down to the Occupy Hippies in Zucotti Park, telling them they’d feed and house them...mwahahahahaha


18 posted on 04/17/2018 6:44:58 AM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: OrangeHoof

There’s plenty of Cuban owned mom and pop bogegas around Tampa that serve great strong coffee at more reasonable prices and without the pretentious aura Starbucks is known for. Besides given Starbucks’ progressive corporate culture you’d think they would want us to BUY LOCALLY.


19 posted on 04/17/2018 6:49:12 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Desperate to keep his moonbat customers in the corral...


20 posted on 04/17/2018 6:50:08 AM PDT by mowowie (uire lab;)
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