And I didn’t have enough info on the coffee shop incident to really refer to them as a-holes. I should’ve looked into that more before spouting off. I’ve looked into it further, and by all accounts, if accurate, point to gross racial bias. I saw their interviews, and they seem like good people who were wronged. But they also appear to have been more than ready to capitalize on the situation too. It’s the skeptic in me that wonders if this wasn’t a premeditated event based on previous encounters at this store.
And although we all have some degree of racial bias,
ALL people, regardless of color/race, probably have some degree of racial bias, and/or gender bias, and/or religion bias, and/or politics bias, and/or hair length bias, and/or language bias, etc.
I find that my dislike/distrust of the media makes me always doubt the truth and motivations in their storytelling.
I totally relate. I finally went ahead and researched it and believe what the manager did was distasteful, unnecessary, and really not professional. The police did *absolutely* nothing wrong- they did their duty and did it properly. Whether the manager was right or wrong, when asked to leave and they refused, the two non-customers became illegal trespassers. They should have just left when asked, then called headquarters and started complaining and asking questions.
I still think the idea of closing every store in the U.S. for racial sensitivity training is a huge over-reaction on behalf of the company.
The company's reaction was a huge over-reaction, so was the public's and the sensationalist media. I also got that "spidey sense" about something not quite right about the whole thing. Too many people out there are just itching to blow any little thing up to crazy proportions and make a show of it.... I think it often just makes things even worse.