Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson, the two black men at the center of what has turned into a nation-wide #BoycottStarbucks campaign prompting the temporary closing of 8,000 stores on May 29 for what the CEO says is some much-needed “unconscious bias” training, have finally broken their silence over what exactly happened last Thursday in a Philadelphia Starbucks. At one point, Nelson told the Associated Press, he wondered if he was going to make it home alive.
Nelson and Robinson, 23-year-old entrepreneurs who have been friends since fourth grade, met at the Starbucks to work out a potential real estate deal with Andrew Yaffe, a white local businessman, that they told AP “could have a positive impact on a whole ladder of people, lives, families.”
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