On Thursday morning, two men who accuse a Starbucks manager of calling the police on them because they were black appeared on ABC News’ Good Morning America. On the show, they claimed that they asked a barista for the code to the bathroom and were told they could not have it because they had not yet purchased anything; they then allegedly sat down in the Starbucks while waiting for a business meeting, but were accosted by a manager asking them if they would purchase anything. When they refused, she called the police, who came and arrested them. Part of the arrest was filmed by witnesses inside the Starbucks.
This story has been used by the media as proof positive of widespread American racism, a verifiable incident of racial bias caught on tape. The manager of the store, one Holly, is an “SJW feminist of the highest order,” according to one of my listeners who frequents this Starbucks. Philadelphia is a heavily black city, which means that Holly presumably dealt with black customers routinely (in fact, my listener confirms this, and says she has never seen any racial bias in their treatment by Holly). Holly claims that she has dealt with many people attempting to loiter in the café, and she says that at least one of those people chased her around the store after she asked them to leave.
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