Posted on 04/17/2018 1:12:12 PM PDT by Cecily
One of the black men who was racially profiled by a Starbucks manager has received the full backing and support from his national fraternity.
Rashon Nelson is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity's Alpha Eta chapter and graduated from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania in 2017.
The finance major and member of the historically black fraternity was waiting -with his business partner - on a colleague in the Center City Philadelphia location when manager Holly Hylton called police.
Following the initial national coverage, members of Omega Psi Phi - one of the 'Divine Nine' historic black Greek organizations - took to social media to share their support for one of their brothers. Following the initial national coverage, members of Omega Psi Phi - one of the 'Divine Nine' historic black Greek organizations - took to social media to share their support for one of their brothers. Nelson throws up a gesture for the fraternity +7
Following the initial national coverage, members of Omega Psi Phi - one of the 'Divine Nine' historic black Greek organizations - took to social media to share their support for one of their brothers. Nelson throws up a gesture for the fraternity
'The times that we are living in continue to unveil the bold and dark side of racism through the lens of ready cameras of witnesses that record the injustices that are reported daily,' said Antonio F. Knox Sr., the Grand Basileus of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, before calling Nelson is a 'remarkable example of resilient courage in the face of undeserved fire.'
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From what I have observed, Starbucks does not regularly enforce of policy of no loitering. Instead, in any Starbucks, on any day, you can see people meeting or teleworking and not buying product.
I would never expect to be able to hang out in a coffee shop without buying anything, whether or not I claimed to be waiting for someone. Also, I would never need to be asked to leave a place where I was not a paying customer, and I would never drag the scene out until the police are called, and I would never hassle the police and refuse multiple polite requests to leave. I guess that’s how my “white privilege” works.
Many of the Starbucks that I’ve ‘observed’ have homeless people inside charging their phones and laptops.
“who was racially profiled by a Starbucks manager”
Lol! Those racial profiling managers!
Igt does not appear that Starbuck has a policy that requires a manager to call the police on people that are in the store and not buying items.
People do the very same thing at Starbucks each day and do the same thing at Best Buy or Home Depot. They walk in, and don’t buy anything.
If Starbucks had called the cops on white guys doing the exact same thing - this never would have made the news.
And they claim we have White Privilege.
I claim they have Black Entitlements.
I want to hear the manager’s side of the story, and what she understood Starbucks company policy to be.
Yeah, the way the Starbucks CEO is falling all over himself, it would not shock me if the CEO offered to resign and hand his job over to Rashon. Certainly Starbucks is going to hand over millions of dollars in penance money. And it still won’t be enough.
I fully expect many, many similar copycat scenarios will crop up the way that thousands “slip and fall” accidents occur each year in WalMarts among people who then sue.
A lot of businesses are unwittingly going to pay reparations. Insurance liability for businesses, particularly small businesses, will now go through the roof.
It’s not like she turned him into a newt!
How long before Starbucks donates 10 million to Black scholarships or some other act of penance?
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Pennance?
Already begun: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3648224/posts
It doesn’t need to be a setup on the manager’s part.
If company policy is to ask loiterers to leave, she’s following policy.
Calling the police in the event they refuse is most likely part of company policy as well.
Obviously, those policies are racist if the loiterers are black. /s
I'm not an attorney, but this strikes me as libelous toward the Starbuck's manager. If it were me, I would obtain legal advice as they have now damaged this person's reputation much the same way the media irreparably damaged poor Richard Jewell, whom the media reported was responsible for the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
“I want to hear the manager’s side of the story, and what she understood Starbucks company policy to be.”
How she ‘understood” Starbucks’ policy to be has nothing to do with the actual policy of Starbucks.
I agree, she should seek legal advice. I hope she didn’t sign away any rights when she and Starbucks “mutually” parted company.
Her understanding is relevant if the Starbucks policy regarding loiterers is in writing in her store management materials.
They state he was racially profiled as if it were a fact.
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