Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Starbucks



I'm sure many of you have heard about what happened at the Starbucks in Philadelphia with the arrest of two black men who were simply hanging out and waiting to meet their friend. The manager did not approve of this since neither of them did not buy anything. I find this to be a very troubling situation for many reasons. One, Starbucks is known to be a meet up place. What if these two men were waiting for their other friend until they ordered a drink? When I go to any Starbucks, I see many people that are just chilling at the couches, chairs, and tables without even having a Starbucks product with them. I go to one Starbucks specifically near my house which is in close proximity to a few schools nearby. On many days when I am there around the time those schools get out for the day, kids FLOOD in and more than half don't even by anything but they all hang out there until they move on to the next place to disrupt. I don't see any police coming to kick these kids out? Even if there is a loitering policy, it does not seem to be upheld. Many people stick around for 2 o3 3 hours only purchasing one drink and taking up seating for the time they are there. Two, if there was seriously something wrong with these men then video evidence should be released to the public because there is no way Starbucks didn't get this scene on video. The only video I saw was one on Twitter that looks to be from either a Snapchat video or phone video where these two men are being handcuffed and a few white people are asking these cops why they are doing this because they saw nothing wrong with what the two men were doing. I am not in any way trying to talk badly about the police because I 100% back the Blue and think Blue Lives matter, however, I am just wondering what really happened at this Starbucks? Three, why does there have to a day where all Starbucks close so they can receive racial bias training? There is an estimate 238,000 Starbucks employees in the US and there are over 13,000 Starbucks stores in the US. Why do all stores have to close down because of one employee who made a bad decision? This one bad employee who might just be a bad person is causing 238,000 employees to get training and over 13,000 stores to close down. That is a bit extreme to have to do since every Starbucks I have been to, including stores in several different states around the nation, have never once gave up a racist vibe.

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