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EXCLUSIVE: A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Starbucks’ ‘Woke’ Racial Bias Training

John Bickley

On Tuesday, Starbucks held its much-publicized racial sensitivity training to help expose and eliminate the “unconscious bias” of its employees. The four-hour training session, for which the company shut down around 8,000 stores to conduct, was planned in response to the infamous incident in a Philadelphia cafe, where two African-American entrepreneurs were arrested for loitering in mid-April.

The Daily Wire spoke with one of the Starbucks employees who attended the training session Tuesday at which the company’s baristas and managers heard from the rapper Common, learned that they should not be “color blind” but should be “color brave,” and that their unconscious brain processes naturally promoted racism.

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