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Starbucks brews backlash with debate on U.S. race relations
Reuters | 3/18/2015 | Lisa Bartelein, Bill Rigny

Posted on 03/18/2015 4:31:19 PM PDT by Signalman

Edited on 03/18/2015 10:16:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz has deftly navigated thorny issues such as gay marriage, gun control and Congressional gridlock, but his move to weigh in on U.S. race relations has brewed up a social media backlash.

The world's biggest coffee chain kicked off the discussion when it published full-page ads in major U.S. newspapers earlier this week with the words "Shall We Overcome?" at center page and "RaceTogether" and the Starbucks logo near the bottom.



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KEYWORDS: blackcrime; starbucks
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To: manc; GOPJ; Lurker

Perhaps there is another, more basic reason.

Survival.

Not many people want to work in an area where they may not live to see the next dawn.


101 posted on 03/20/2015 12:14:16 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT; manc; Lurker

I believe pizza delivery men and taxi cab drivers were sued by the NAACP for not going into black neighborhoods.

If the law can be used against pizza delivery companies it can damn sure be used against Starbucks. Starbucks - liberal elites wagging their fingers at the rest of us... can learn to live with their own rules.

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“Fear of stereotyped crime in black neighborhoods is racism,” said Annapolis community activist Robert Eades. “There’s a public safety issue here. But these companies deliver to white communities and they don’t do the same in black neighborhoods.”

At Domino’s, drivers won’t deliver to neighborhoods where another Domino’s driver has been harassed or assaulted, said Fred Lucarelli, a driver at the company’s Forest Plaza branch. Groups of loitering people, a darkened alley or a vacant building are some of the signs that give him pause, Mr. Lucarelli said.

“I’ve got a great big spotlight on my car and I’ll shine it. If I don’t feel safe, I’ll just drive away,” he said.

The city council has begun to approve zoning applications for fast-food delivery restaurants only if the owners vow to serve all areas of the city. Business owners could be fined or lose their permits if they break the promise.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-12-13/news/1995347105_1_black-neighborhoods-delivery-people-pizza-delivery

Last paragraph: Business owners could be fined or lose their permits if they break the promise.

Business owners could be fined or lose their permits if they break the promise.


102 posted on 03/20/2015 2:18:56 PM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: GOPJ

liberal elites wagging their fingers at the rest of us... can learn to live with their own rules.

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Yep. you’re right.


103 posted on 03/20/2015 2:49:56 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: GOPJ
RE:”Every now and then Sick you and I are on exactly the same page... this is one of those times.”

Well we cant have that now,
sounds like I need to take a drive to Starbucks and ‘Race Together’ HAHA

104 posted on 03/20/2015 4:44:35 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: LucyT

Why not give jobs to blacks then in their areas?


105 posted on 03/20/2015 5:11:26 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: GOPJ

If Starbucks really cared about blacks then why not open in their areas and give them jobs?

Blacks have been used by the left for decades now while their so called leaders are paid off by the Dem party and still most blacks have not figured out yet they are nothing but pawns in a Political chess game.


106 posted on 03/20/2015 5:13:02 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Bob

"Grab a cup of burnt coffee and allow me to enlighten you about race."


107 posted on 03/20/2015 5:28:49 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Starbux has plenty of black employees, all the way down the West Side of NYC, to 51st at least, which is about as far as I’ve been to them.


108 posted on 03/20/2015 5:37:26 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: LucyT

:) Thanks.


109 posted on 03/21/2015 7:06:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist. - Freeper RipSawyer)
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To: GOPJ

Interesting.


110 posted on 03/21/2015 7:40:43 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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