SAN ANGELO, TX — Starbucks will be closing the San Angelo locations along with 8,000 stores nationwide to conduct anti-bias training at 2:30 p.m today. This is to restore the tarnished image of the coffee chain hangout.
Two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks last month after the two were denied access to the bathroom while they were awaiting a business meeting. The two were arrested while patrons recorded the incident on their cellphones.
The video went viral and Starbucks has since released a statement saying, “anyone can use their restrooms even if they are not buying anything.”
The coffee chain’s leaders have apologized and met with the two men, they settled on an undisclosed sum and an offer of a free education. The two reached a deal with the city of Philadelphia for a symbolic $1 each and the promise that officials will establish a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.
Starbucks reached out to activists and experts in bias training to put together a curriculum for the chain’s 175,000 employees. The training is used in many different organizations to help address racism in the workplace.
Starbucks will resume normal business hours tomorrow, but this may not be the last of the training. It could become a part of every employee’s training at Starbucks.
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That in this day and age we have to have training to not be racist...smh...
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PermalinkRoseanne just got herself and dozens of others associated with her show fired by ABC for her racist statements. After getting fired Roseanne said that she is "sorry." Yeah....sure.
Trump got fired from his show by NBC at the beginning of his campaign for his racist statements.
The list is unfortunately very long.
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PermalinkThey could've prevented all of this by implementing a ''paying customers only" policy from the beginning.
Restaurants are not considered public locations and do not provide public restrooms. They're privately owned businesses which are open TO the public, and have a right to limit their restroom facilities to paying customers.
Now required to appease the emotionally crippled cult of political correctness, Starbucks will soon begin to take on the likeness of our public libraries -- and the type of environments typically avoided by people who spend $5 on coffee.
Progressive ideology has reared back to bite the hands that feed it.
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PermalinkThe fact that they implemented this training is like an admission of guilt... I think they should have stood by their employee and took a bite if they got sued or whatnot for the incident... After reading through the stories, it seems like the only reason these gentlemen got in trouble in the first place, is because of the way they reacted to an incident that had nothing to do with race... It's not like there was a couple of white guys who hadn't bought anything and got to use the restroom while they were denied the same.
Pulling the race card is going to get old in this country if it continues to be a go to response to everyday incident's, but then again, with responses from business' like Starbucks, it may be that there's too much reward in pulling it for things to change.
I miss Baker Street myself... Never cared for the coffee or atmosphere at Starbucks.
I'm not saying that racism isn't still a problem... But there are those who've lived it and still hold opinion's that are like mine... Incidents like the Starbucks one happen all the time and go unnoticed, because nobody complains. I've been denied bathroom use for not spending money in an establishment and I just went on about my business, no big deal...
It's easy to claim any little "slight" is a racist incident, when your country's media pushes a racially biased viewpoint. Take "white privilege" as an example... How that makes sense to any rational mind, I have no idea. Most of the arguments concerning the topic revolve around "money" as a key issue for the idea that somehow, white folks use their whiteness to "insert popular bias here". Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know, it just doesn't add up from where I'm sitting.
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PermalinkIn one of the articles I ran across about this incident, a couple of idle 'social justice' warriors set out to recreate the scenario, of a black guy attempting to use a restaurant's restroom without buying anything. When the young man was told the restrooms were for paying customers only, he jumped right into "it's because I'm black?".
It's pretty safe to assume that every idiot who attempts this little experiment, goes into about 8 or 9 places, where no one notices or cares who goes in and out of their restrooms. All it takes is one unsuspecting restaurant with a "paying customer policy", with one innocent employee who dared to enforce it, and CNN is handed two week's of programming material.
The "white privilege" card is a gimmick, originally practiced among champagne socialists when they wanted to make a (usually public) display of philanthropy. It's based on the pretense that whites should gloat over the plight of minorities, due to some twisted, misplaced feeling of guilt.
See a fool, use a fool. Every useless a-hole who's sole talents are making trouble and making babies, is now riding the wave, pulling the race card whenever convenient.
Few will listen to the narratives of "someone denied me something" or "I'm owned something". Interject "because I'm of color" at the end of those statements, and the world better stop turning until you've fleeced the police department or attained the rights to a full feature movie (see Trayvon Martin's parents).
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PermalinkEverybody has used the restroom at least once at a store without purchasing something. As for the way "they" reacted all uppity and stuff, would be believed if they had not reacted the way they did at the time of arrest or after.
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PermalinkAnd everybody has bought something in a store at least once and not used the restroom. Maybe the last time they were in there, they bought something and didn't need the facilities. Maybe they had one coming and were just collecting.
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