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Offline Boges

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Re: Black troublemakers arrested at Starbucks
« Reply #45 on: April 18, 2018, 09:37:34 am »
Waiting on friends while not making any purchases IS loitering.

And people do it all the time.

I think you miss the obvious racism here that this manager thought black men chilling outside a Starbucks was somehow threatening. That's something I've never experienced even if I was technically loitering.

Starbucks is the place people go to, to loiter. Buy ONE coffee and use their Wifi for 3 hours.

Offline cybercoma

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Re: Black troublemakers arrested at Starbucks
« Reply #46 on: April 18, 2018, 10:59:59 am »
And people do it all the time.

I think you miss the obvious racism here that this manager thought black men chilling outside a Starbucks was somehow threatening. That's something I've never experienced even if I was technically loitering.

Starbucks is the place people go to, to loiter. Buy ONE coffee and use their Wifi for 3 hours.
Starbucks' branding isn't even about the coffee. It's about being a community space for people to drop in and hang out.

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Re: Black troublemakers arrested at Starbucks
« Reply #47 on: April 18, 2018, 03:52:48 pm »
Starbucks' branding isn't even about the coffee. It's about being a community space for people to drop in and hang out.

Unless you're Black, according to sir argus, but that's old news.