Posted on 04/17/2018 4:05:12 PM PDT by C19fan
Three years ago, Starbucks was widely ridiculed for trying to start a national conversation on race relations by asking its employees to write the words "Race Together" on coffee cups. The initiative, though it backfired, was in line with the company's longstanding effort to project a progressive and inclusive image. The company is now through the looking glass, trying to tamp down a racially charged uproar over the arrest of two black men at one of its stores in Philadelphia. How could Starbucks, which once urged its employees to start conversations about race with customers, now be under fire for its treatment of black people?
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Starbucks has earned the image of linguini-spined cravenness.
Another non-issue promoted by the low IQ crowd to shield any negative claims against the hoodrats.
STARBUCKS is so Seattle White and they even market black coffee.
Deserve all the bad press they can get.
Just breaks my heart/s I have 2 or them in my town & I have never walked through the door.
The problem wasn’t that they wanted the two non-paying customers to leave - it was that they did not back up their employee when he/she asked them to leave. And they did not do as they were asked to do. Even when the police got there! The employee was well within his/her right to ask them to leave - as long as company policy was being followed. And any company that does not allow employees to request that someone leave is idiotic and feckless.
But they also marked white coffee...
I have never seen such a minor story get such major coverage. Much ado about nothing.
No wonder many people,including me,avoid news coverage as much as possible.
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Ace of Spades HQ
On Starbucks and “Racism”
Does a great job spelling this out.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/374847.php
Always in election years. Sheriff sits on his ass, it’s NRAs fault. Michael Brown, Mizzou.
Anything to get lazy azz brainwashed Dims to the polls
Yes, I agree that this was handled badly (and the fact that the race of the employee wasn’t mentioned leads me to think he or she may have been black as well), but it’s not a racial issue.
Unlike most people here, I actually like Starbucks coffee and I like some of their snacks (especially the egg bites!). So I patronize them fairly often, and I have seen white people told that they can’t use the bathroom or can’t sit at a table forever without buying something. If the store didn’t have that policy, every “homeless” person in town would be camped out in their store or taking a bath in the sink.
Friend told me their CEO said don’t walk through our doors if you don’t support gay marriage.
He said, O.K. I can do that (not walk through your doors), no problem.
He/she/it that lives by political correctness, dies by political correctness.
I did not say nor do I believe it was handled badly. That is the old media narrative and it is not reality. I don’t buy from Starbucks because they are run by libturds, they promote the homo agenda and other left wing causes. This is a code I live by and I don’t give a rip how great some confection is, how cheap it is, or how great any product is if their profits support the left, period.
It breaks my heart to see what is happening to Starbucks over this incident. I think I’ll write “Can’t we all just get along” on my next Sam Adams Lager.......LMAO !
Yup...do not need 5$ coffee anyway.
The times I've been to Starbucks they usually have numerous college age hippies sitting around and taking up all the seats and it appears that they bought one small coffee and stayed 4 hours for the free wifi.
Ah-ha! I think I see what happened. Lack of seating. They tolerated the non-paying people at first but when it got to the point that paying customers could no longer find a seat they asked the non-payers to leave, who got belligerent, and so the employee called the cops, and when the cops got there they were belligerent with the cops, and so the cops arrested them.
But they don't seem to have this problem at McDonald's. I've had more than one business meeting at McDonald's without buying anything, but McDonald's has way more seating.
Quite some time ago I told my wife not to patronize Starbucks. I will be going there tomorrow. Not to buy coffee but to check out their restroom and read a book. This incident was all staged. They get their fifteen minutes of fame and people who feel guilty because they are white can parade their phony compassion.
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