In response to public backlash after a store manager called the cops on two African Americans for staying too long without purchasing something, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson announced the closure of over 8,000 stores on May 29 for mandatory, company-wide racial sensitivity training. But a change to the company’s plans suggests that Starbucks’ much-publicized “unconscious bias” training is not without its own bias.
“Bowing to pressure from African-American activists, Starbucks excluded the Anti-Defamation League from an upcoming daylong anti-bias training session,” Politico reported Monday.
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