OK, that's better. Yes there is very much an over reaction to many things these days. Humor seems to be harder to interpret by the increasingly polarized masses. Humor generation can involve risk taking and sometimes not only does it not work, it backfires from over reaction. I don't think it's fair to compare the reaction of racial bias in a coffee shop to the death of the police officers reaction. I felt I was equally informed about both incidents, but since the shooter took his own life, we have little to follow up on in that story other than the officer's funerals. The coffee shop incident has plenty to follow up on, so there continued to be something to report and thus news coverage. I believe if there was more to the police story ...say if the police announced that they would be taking lunch in groups of three from now on, so one can stand guard while the other two eat, (or some other plan) Then there would have been more reporting about the police murders. That is of course, just my opinion, and I suspect we will continue to disagree about the "A-holes" and the "weak CEO" but that's OK by me.
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, I find that my dislike/distrust of the media makes me always doubt the truth and motivations in their storytelling.
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. Though employees should have that type of training, closing every store comes off as more of a publicity stunt to appease the angry masses than it does to truly address the problem. The CEO says he wants to “fix this”, but you can’t “fix” human nature. You can only educate and become aware of how your own biases affect how you look at and treat people.
If there is any positive out of this coffee shop incident, whether premeditated or not, is that maybe more folks are talking about racial bias and how it effects us all.