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Originally Posted by Aquila
Okay, so a white guy asks two black guys to meet him at Starbucks to discuss some business. While they are waiting on him, they are told to leave because they have yet to purchase any coffee drinks. They refuse to leave, because they are waiting for the man they are supposed to meet and they feel singled out because they're black. The cops are called. They discuss their intentions with the cops. The cops order them to leave. They feel greater discrimination. The cops decide to arrest them. Finally, the white guy their meeting with shows up, and asks what the problem is, and explains that they were meeting him. He goes on to explain that he's met people at this Starbucks all the time, and asks if they all can just leave. For some reason, the officers are still determined to arrest them. So, now three guys go into custody peacefully and the white guy they were meeting follows them to the station, bails them out, and they contact attorneys.
Is that essentially what happened?
Wow. If that's what happened, if you're black, you can't just meet someone at a public place without risking being arrested?
Here's a personal story. It wasn't Starbucks, it was Carribou Coffee at The Green in Kettering, Ohio. I told a couple to meet me there for a Bible study, and lunch and coffee was on me. They arrived on time. I got stuck on the highway. I texted them, and they said they'd wait. I was about 25 minutes late. We ordered coffee and food, then we had our Bible study.
No incident.
At least we know Carribou Coffee is safe. Well, none of us are black. Might not want to risk it if you are.
Isn't America great again?
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Starbucks is not a public place. It is owned by a private company.
As to whether this was racially motivated, only the Starbucks employee who called the police could say.
And I find it ironic that none of the MSM talking heads can find him/her to interview.
So, let's look at it from this perspective:
1. It is fairly normal for a place of business to require someone to make a purchase to be there.
2. Many businesses have signs up indicating that their bathrooms are ONLY for customers.
3. Starbucks employees have a RIGHT to ask anyone to leave, even if they are a paying customer. The property is owned by Starbucks.
4. If you are asked to leave, you have no choice. It is not a public building.
5. When the police are called, they are following the request of the property owner in asking you to leave. They are not there to decide whether there is racist intent. They are there to remove a trespasser (which is what you are if you refuse to leave).
What I am seeing is that anything that a POC does not like, they blame it on racism.
For example the Waffle House case, where the POC was druck and threatening bodily harm to the employees, but now is threatening to sue.
This is an issue left over from the BHO administration.
Let me give you an example that I experienced.
The EEOC prior to BHO would take a complaint and speak with the complaining employee (or ex-employee) and then decide whether there was merit enough to even send it to the company for investigation and response. Thus, not very many complaints maybe about 10% were deemed valid and sent to the company.
The BHO admin started a policy that all complaints were valid and they would send everything to the company for a response.
This of course led to employees believing that the EEOC thought there was something discriminatory about their treatment, thus increasing the racial tension in the workplace and in society.
It also had the effect of increasing the number of complaints and increasing companies cost in defending against these complaints. In the 8 years of the BHO admin, I saw more complaints than in my previous 20 years of dealing with these.
Some of these were so ridiculous as to be laughable.
Two I will share.
An employee lead sent an email asking to be removed from his lead position, because his supervisor had sent him an email telling him that he needed to make sure the employees he was supervising were working and not standing around.
He then filed an EEOC charge stating that he was removed from his position due to discrimination. This went to the second level of EEOC, which was unbelievable.
An employee got mad and walked out. We could not find her and she would not answer her phone. We finally found her on security camera leaving the building. We attempted to contact her many times over the next week by home phone and cell, but she would not answer. Then guess what we received?
An EEOC complaint that she had been discriminated against.
I could give numerous more examples of how the BHO admin "fostered" racial divisions, but I need to get back to work!