The two men who were arrest for Waiting While Black in Philly Starbucks have been released.

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Infuckingbelievable. Starbucks has some explaining to do, and their wishy-washy "statement" just doesn't cut it. And now the customer who filmed the incident is getting shit from white people, asking if "she's proud" for shaming people. WTF?!?

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https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/04/14/philadelphia-starbucks-arrest-video/

[oberliner]

1. Protest outside the store

[BigmanPigman]

3. That looks like a good protest to me!

They should be holding coffee cups from Wawa or the 7/11 though. I am with them in sprirt (and have boycotted Starbucks since 1998 for a diff reason).

[uponit7771]

6. +1

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Martin Schultz should have been on the first plane to

Philly. If he wants his business to survive after this one,he has to get off his butt and address those effected or tear up his companies policy manual.

[WhiteTara]

4. I see money in those men's futures.

[Anon-C]

5. I'm sorry, but especially to hell with the black cop!

You got your paycheck so you're good, right bruh?

[uponit7771]

7. IKR ?! Did they even tell them why they were being arrested ?!

[oberliner]

8. Trespassing

But then the store ended up not pressing charges so they were released.

[MariaCSR]

9. Right on, Ms. DePino.

[Blue_Adept]

10. Seriously, what else can Starbucks Corporate do until they get the facts?

This is clearly something that happened because of an individual manager. They have to get the information from them and the cops. A company won't put out any more detailed statement until they get their understanding on the matter. Why is that so hard for people to understand? They can't promise to change anything (if anything needs to be changed as I'm pretty sure corporate policy is fine on this matter in that people can hang around all the time without being a bother) until they know EXACTLY what happened.

Like most matters in life, and in situations like these, it's an ass of a boss/shift manager with too much power run amuck letting their racism loose.

[bigtree]

11. why would 'corporate policy be fine on this matter?'

...clearly the company has some work to do in communicating what you think is an aberration.

Give this a few days or weeks before excusing the corporate policy and how they communicate that to their employees. There's obviously something wrong with this branch, and it's not clear yet if this is a widespread problem of harassing black customers.

I think assuming this is an isolated incident doesn't account for the continuing history of widespread, disparate treatment of black customers vs. others in this nation. We should start from that assumption, not from assuming that everything must be equal and fine because there's a policy written down somewhere.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. "Seriously, what else can Starbucks Corporate do"

Required diversity training for anyone who owns and is assigned as a manager of any of their chain stores. If they don't want to take it, then they will no longer be an owner authorized for a franchise under that corporate name nor will they be permitted as a managing employee.

What does "diversity training" do? It often shows how unconscious distorted "perceptions" may actually be a result of learned harmful stereotyping of others. The sessions may include role-playing exercises to help the trainee to get rid of those scotomas (blind spots) they may have, that evolved over the years.

It may not get through to "all", but if you can positively impact a few with such training (including some who are posting in this thread and other threads who are apparently in need), then we can continue to move on as a society that promotes "equality".

[bigtree]

13. paper apology isn't enough

...they need to establish clearly that this isn't happening in other locations.

Even if they assume it's an aberration, they still need to take proactive steps to ensure it is as rare as I'm sure they hope it turns out to be.

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