Posted on 04/19/2018 6:09:05 AM PDT by C19fan
Last Thursday, an employee at a Philadelphia Starbucks called the police on two black men who were waiting for the arrival of a business partner without having ordered anything at the counter. When police arrived, the men were arrested for trespassing. A bystander caught the encounter on video, which showed the men resigned to their fate as other white patrons protested the arrest, and the incident went viral.
Starbucks is now in full-on damage-control mode, with plans to shut down its stores nationwide for an afternoon of employee unconscious bias training. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said that the officers acted according to protocol, but his department has launched an internal investigation.
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Any source or stats to back that up or is that just your mere conjecture?
I've told him, and he knows it, that if he looks a certain way, he'll be treated a certain way. He knows it but is too determined at the age of 24 to cultivate that look and do what he wants to do.
He is well aware that he is absolutely being profiled ... but as a very hardworking moral young man with a degree in Mandarin teaching English who blames the TSA not in the least, he understands the rationale for it.
I ignore everyone.
So, to some black people I am ignoring their “blackness”?when really I am treating you just like everyone else.
Although, that is probably racist.
Whenever I need a rational piece of info, I nearly always turn to “slate” to get it. No matter if it’s gun rights or any other civil right. LOL! NOT!
I have noticed the phrase “post-traumatic stress disorder” popping up in more and more articles of this type, signifying a PTSD type reaction to normal daily stresses.
Is this going to be the future health care issue? People who would never go anywhere near a battlefield claiming the same type of injury as someone who has seen a little hell in their time?
There was a video I saw during the election season of 2004 where a union meeting occurred. A union member stood up and claimed that his twenty years on the production line were just as hard as a soldier doing twenty years and that he deserved life time medical care just like the soldiers.
I did not break the TV, but I did do a lot of yelling at the TV, and the guys around me were kind of put off their meal. The TV was in a chow hall in Iraq and we were between shifts at the POW compound.
“IOW, “Even if you’re not racist, I’m going to supposed you’re racist and act accordingly”.
OK black person, even if you’re not a criminal, I’m going to suppose you’re a criminal and act accordingly.”
Indeed.
I just shared this article with my 13 year old as part of our logic lesson for the day (he is homeschooled). He came up with this same thought immediately.
Four writers?
Must be a ghost writer in there somewhere.
No way Slate could find four sentient beings who could put together a sentence without hand gestures and crayons.
Exactly.. It wasn’t because they were black.. It was because they were in the wrong.
The lasting legacy of Ødunghole...
Even Jesse Jackson gets a little nervous around certain individuals while out in public.
These “victimized blacks” need to emigrate to a friendlier country, like South Africa. America with its values based on personal initiative and equality of opportunity will never provide the safe space they obviously are entitled to.
New York Times Magazine's Sunday edition's cover article was why pregnant black women/newborns today have higher mortality rates than non-blacks, even higher than in the past, many years ago when black women were considered "chattel."
Their conclusion? Living in constant racism and oppression in America creates so much stress and anxiety they were just sicker mothers - more blood pressure, more preclampsia, etc.
If sevenbucks was serious about their re-training, they would close down the shops at the busiest time, like the morning rush when folks pick up coffee for work
I believe that black people are quite often unfairly profiled and treated with extreme prejudice. It’s a cancer on our nation which desperately needs treatment. However, it is not being treated in a manner that actually heals. Instead, the treatment prolongs and worsens the disease. If we could stop talking about reparations and social justice and instead address the problem of fatherlessness and promiscuity which exists in poor black and white sub-cultures, then and only then would we be in a position to see real improvement.
Me Too!!!
I worked as a busboy at a 5 star restaurant.
I left work at 2:30 am with my pockets full of tips.
My uniform was in my knapsack.
I decided to buy a soda and stopped at a coke machine outside a gas station.
Kid-night-bike-knapsack-riding around.
Yup, police pulled me over asking what I was doing, where I was going, and searched my knapsack
To authors Jamelle Bouie, Gene Demby , Aisha Harris, and Tressie McMillan Cottom: I’ve been assaulted, threatened, roughed up, shaken down, and violently pushed off sidewalks by black people five times in my life starting at age 13 and all across the country in small towns and big cities (New York State, Ohio, and California). I’ve dealt with black coworkers who are surly, sullen, and uncooperative many times — the resentment, “hate the man / hate whitey” chip on their shoulders has been huge. Many black service people in stores have been downright ruder and meaner than you would think possible.
Yet, the black nurse I had in a Minneapolis hospital was the sweetest, kindest, friendliest person you could imagine — she immigrated from Ethiopia several years ago. Occasionally, I’ll meet an American black person with the same qualities as that Ethiopian nurse, but it is way too rare. Generally speaking, the nicest American black people I’ve met are 60 and over. Perhaps it’s because they weren’t raised in this constantly bubbling stew of hatred fomented by Democrats and the race industry.
A lifetime of personal experience and observation has taught me a lot. I have an open mind about every individual I meet and treat everybody with kindness and respect until they prove they don’t deserve that. But, when you encounter behaviors like I have experienced over a 55 year period, you do tend to draw some conclusions about who you need to be wary of and cautious about.
“The “fate”the men saw was millions of dollars, costing a woman her job, just by being cheap inconsiderate bastards. Imagine using a coffee house for a business meeting and you can’t buy a stinking cup of coffee.”
Those guys CHOSE to be arrested. They were told to buy something or leave. They refused. The cops show up and tell them to leave or be arrested. The chose arrest. But the media portray this as a “white” problem.
Part of the problem may be that blacks see these incidents as a chance for a big payday. If they leave quietly they get nothing. If you are arrested under any questionable circumstances, the media make a big thing out of it and the company pays them off.
Dealing with blacks is a minefield and they use it to their advantage. If you are white and make even the smallest mistake, you will be fired and branded a racist. The black gets rewarded with a big payoff. Is it any wonder whites try to avoid these encounters?
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