STARBUCKS PROVES ONCE MORE THAT A CALM RACIST IS A SAFE RACIST

BUT FIRST A SKETCH OF WHAT HAPPENED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE VICTIMS

Rashon Nelson initially brushed it off when the Starbucks manager told him he couldn’t use the restroom because he wasn’t a paying customer. 

He thought nothing of it when he and his childhood friend and business partner, Donte Robinson, were approached at their table and were asked if they needed help. The 23-year-old entrepreneurs declined, explaining they were just waiting for a business meeting.

Read More: https://apnews.com/45547c3ae5324b679e982c4847ee1378 

A very few minutes later when the police came in, the two men barely noticed them...until cops started heading for their table. That's when they knew the white female manager had called the police on them.

Despite the two of them remaining purposefully calm, back up was called. And at first the black police chief defended his officers. But he has since apologized and also says new policies are coming.

On Thursday, they also got an apology from Philadelphia police Commissioner Richard Ross, a black man who at first staunchly defended his officers’ handling of the encounter.

“I should have said the officers acted within the scope of the law, and not that they didn’t do anything wrong,” Ross said. “Words are very important.”...Ross said he “failed miserably” in addressing the arrests. He said that the issue of race is not lost on him and that he shouldn’t be the person making things worse.

“Shame on me if, in any way, I’ve done that,” he said.

Read More: https://apnews.com/45547c3ae5324b679e982c4847ee1378 

Ross said his police department doesn't have a standard operating procedure or policy when it comes to things like retailer trespassing claims ( to prevent #ShoppingWhileBlack situations), but it will soon.

This and the classes will hold on May 29th? It's not enough.  It might have been a great start in 1980. But it's 2018. Repackaging the old "Diversity Training" and adding a few new terms like "implicit bias" and "microaggressions" isn't going to help much.

But you know what would help with white folks white racism problems? 

Consequences.

For decades white people have insisted on focusing on motive and whether it was deliberate instead of firing people for discriminatory actions.

And I suppose some white folks think I should be glad some white folks are finally admitting white racism can take place without a pillowcase hood in place or an n-word being dropped. But it's 2018 and not 1980.  

If the WHITE CUSTOMERS in that particular Starbucks KNEW that this white female manager was out of line for implying so very, very quickly that those two men were lying about having a meeting and therefore trespassing, then everybody should know she was out of line for some mysterious reason

...and this would tend to include the white people running Starbucks. And they do know the supervisor was out of line. But they want to excuse it saying it was "unconscious bias" when they have no way of knowing what a person's motive is.

And that's all a discussion of "implicit bias" or "unconscious bias" is -- a discussion of motive.

The other white woman, the one who took the now viral video of what went down said she, herself, had been that very same Starbucks and not ordered anything --as recently as the day before-- and the police were not called seconds after she sat down. She said she's seen numerous white people "trespass" at Starbucks without ordering and yet the police weren't called on them two minutes after they arrived. 

And there were white people in the restaurant that same day that went to the bathroom without ordering, sat down without ordering. 

These are the steps that curb white supremacy

• Assumed Motive of Supervisor X: Unconscious Bias
• Action of Supervisor X: Discrimination (a racist act)
• Action of Supervisor X's Employer: Terminate Employment 

These are the steps that enable white supremacy

• Assumed Motive of Supervisor X: Unconscious Bias
• Action of Supervisor X: Discrimination (a racist act)
• Action of Supervisor X's Employer:

1. Let supervisor white female supervisor plead confusion (and likely cry) after taking strong, decisive, and damn near instantaneous action against two black people who hadn't violated any policy that anybody present in the establishment could see except her.
2. Hide the offending white female supervisor somewhere else in the company,
3. Have the white male CEO make a public apology,
4. Decide to close all stores and hold a large public class on race and diversity ala 1980s Diversity Training

Have white people failed to notice that all the Diversity Training of the 1980s did to white people was irritate them into coming up with the term "political correctness" --a phrased which is tossed out to other white people like a code?

And the code "politically correct" means 'I would tell you what I'm really thinking but I'm not allowed to say the same ethnoracist, sexist, and generally hateful crap my Daddy did back in the day.' 

I'm glad white liberals have new terms to describe age old white behaviors, such "implicit bias" or "unconscious bias" and "microaggressions" But the only thing that's going to make white people sit up and take notice of their own bone marrow deep white supremacy beliefs handed down from generation to generation are consequences.

And we propose consequences for DISCRIMINATORY ACTIONS. We are not suggesting consequences for someone's motives.  

We don't care about motives.

We don't care if Supervisor Becky never says the n-word then acts out her white supremacy with discriminatory action like calling black people "trespassers" while she calls white people "waiting customers" 

We don't care if Supervisor Bethany says the n-word four times a day and screams it out her bedroom window before she goes to sleep each night THEN acts out her white supremacy with discriminatory action like calling black people "trespassers" while she calls white people "waiting customers"

We only care that Supervisor Becky and Supervisor Bethany are both capable of taking discriminatory actions that can kill us. 

I'm working for the most obvious believer in white supremacist I've ever worked for right now.

If this woman remembered my special projects during my annual reviews; if she remembered to get equipment I need for my damaged shoulder like she did in regards to my white co-workers damaged shoulder;  if she picked me to do critical trainings first instead of forgetting I need certain trainings at all -- I wouldn't give a damn what her motives are because I wouldn't need to.  

I could write for days and days about all this white woman has "forgotten" in regards to black me but remembered for the white people in our office. 

White supremacy doesn't always come with a KKK tattoo on the person's forehead. And white women will cry like somebody's pulling their toenails out if they're called on it.

So does this white female manager making "a simple mistake" (in a lot of white eyes) mean that virtually nobody in the upper echelon of Starbucks understands how easily some-black-body could have been killed? 

Rashon Nelson knew that he knew somebody who knew somebody else, reading between the lines of the main story quoted here. 

That is, Nelson knew he wasn't going to get trapped in the legal system. And if Rashon was in Starbucks waiting on somebody to talk about a real estate deal, then he's not in a socio-economic class where he's worried about going to jail for days (like Sandra Bland) or years (like Kalief Browder) waiting on a judge to hear his case. 

In other words, Rashon had reason to be calm while he was being arrested for nothing, even as more and more cops showed up. 

But what if Rashon had been younger and poorer and less connected? 

If Rashon had been younger and poorer, he'd have been more scared. And a scared black boy is a boy who starts yelling and moving around a lot. 

And that's who white cops attack and sometimes murder, weapon or no weapon; black people who don't act like little calm lambs no matter what kind of white hell is breaking loose all around them.


If Starbucks' class doesn't end on this note: "If you act in a  discriminatory way, we will fire you instantly," if it doesn't end on a zero tolerance policy then Starbucks' half day racial sensitivity class is entirely a white liberal public relations stunt.

I don't care how sincerely well-meaning the white liberal owner of Starbucks is. Implicit-bias leads white liberals to see the good outshining the bad in most any white person who has committed a racist act...for so long as it is not physically or verbally violent.

A relatively calm white racist is a safe white racist. 

Do not hear me say that I know Supervisor Becky is a white racist. I don't. Hear me say Starbuck's doesn't know and doesn't care to know one way or the other.

Supervisor Becky should have been fired for executing an obviously discriminatory act in support of white supremacy -- whether it was conscious or not. 

I'm not sure that one "racist" act makes one a racist. But I am sure that I'd get as close to a zero tolerance policy as I could. And I'm having a hard time believing Supervisor Becky didn't get a dark joy out of calling the police so quickly. 

"When white people threaten to call the police on black people—out of anger, out of spite, out of pure vindictiveness—they are effectively saying, 'I'll kill you!' They're just using a legal extension of white supremacy to do it. 

It's high time we start considering these bigots just as much a threat as the police that they summon to do their bidding."

Read More: https://www.theroot.com/from-starbucks-to-hashtags-we-need-to-talk-about-why-w-1825284087 

Since I began writing this, it has come to my attention that Supervisor Becky -- real name Holly -- has had other racism based incidents at the same store, with a black employee

Headline

Starbucks manager who called cops on black men 'demoted me because of my race' and targeted non-whites for removal from store, African-American co-worker claims

Read more:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5627691/Starbucks-manager-called-cops-black-men-faces-new-race-claims.html


It doesn't matter if this latest Starbucks Racism Story pans out. 

What matters is how far Starbucks is willing to go to protect that image of innocent whiteness. 

Starbucks is/was planning to lose millions of dollars on that half day racial sensitivity class when firing Supervisor Becky publicly would have been tons cheaper and 10x as effective in making sure the instant phone call to police over trespassing doesn't happen again.

Firing Supervisor Becky aka Holly could put all the undercover white supremacists on notice and put the unconscious colorblind white person (a kinder gentler racist with a milder demeanor) in soul searching mode. 

Or maybe not.

The thing I know for sure is this. One huge white run company bringing instant consequences and skipping the mind reading and motive searching would lead to other companies doing the same.

Instead, Starbucks is spending millions of dollars to save white face. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the refusal to fire publicly this person for an obviously discriminatory act is a form of white supremacy itself.

A lot of white people  --like those in charge of Starbucks-- believe that most white people are too good deep in their soul to act out white supremacy without giving a damn whether they're doing so or not. 

That's why this Starbucks story is so interesting. This is peak white liberal white supremacy we're watching play out here. Protecting their self-image as white people is more important than losing millions of dollars.

Then again, this public relations stunt is aimed at other white people not aimed at getting the forgiveness of the victims specifically or the black community more broadly. When this class is done, white people are going to say "Well they tried. What more do you want? Blood?"

This class is going to be very effective on the predominantly white public that buys their product. So maybe I'm the dummy here?

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