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Originally Posted by cairns
I'm not assuming anything but I highly doubt race had anything to with it. That Starbucks gets some very high ratings and is noted for its friendly staff. And those guys, clearly, refused to leave when asked. That's trespassing pure and simple. They could have saved everyone a lot of trouble by (as noted) ordering some damn coffee. But they pulled the race card instead. I don't buy that as they were in the wrong. When you don't buy something and the proprietor asks you to leave you leave- no matter what color you are. That's what well mannered people do.
Excusing this behavior doesn't help black people. It hurts them.
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From the white woman who recorded the video.
The police were called because these men hadn’t ordered anything. They were waiting for a friend to show up, who did as they were taken out in handcuffs for doing nothing. All the other white ppl are wondering why it’s never happened to us WHEN WE DO THE SAME THING.
Guess you had to be there, like she was.
When one feels that they are being treated differently and they have a suspicion of why then yeah, maybe I'd not leave either. Because if I do get arrested maybe, just maybe, it exposes the issue.
If you want to turn a blind eye to how some people are treated differently from others in the same situation because of a physical trait that they can't possibly change and you want to pretend that it's somehow their fault then have at it.
This issue is about whether they were asked to leave because of who they were, not because they did not buy something or because they had to pee, or because their friend was late.
They obviously felt they were being treated differently and had the balls to take it the whole nine yards.
I respect that.
I am kind of curious how think their actions hurt blacks? Calling attention to an issue that most minorities deal with regularly.
Hurting black people? As if the problem goes away as long as everyone stays quiet and pretends it does not happen. How the **** does that help anyone?
I guess it hurts them in your eyes because it challenges your perception of the issue. God forbid you may have to honestly face the reality that this is what life is like on a daily basis for minorities.
Much easier to bury your head in the sand and blame them for being treated unfairly because they are.....
To reiterate, because it seems lost of many here, were they asked to leave because of who they were, or what they were or were not doing?