jimnyc
05-08-2018, 08:39 AM
And maybe he needs a cry closet - and then of course reparations? :rolleyes: I say to this idiot - tough shit and eat shit.
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Before the next videotaped Starbucks disaster, everyone should take implicit bias training
Why put implicit bias training into a box that says 'break in case of emergency,' when it’s just a matter of time before the next incident of racism?
Everyone should get tested for implicit bias, and if you’re a public official or receiving public dollars — it should be mandatory. It’s just a matter of time before another black person is abused, arrested, or shot dead for flying, golfing, driving, walking or drinking coffee "while black."
We know that in another week, black Twitter will once again be enraged by another disturbing video of a black woman in Waffle House getting body-slammed to the floor by police, only to see a white man who killed four people and wounded four more at a Tennessee Waffle House brought in by police without the use of excessive force. Then there’s Starbucks.
How do we explain that racism still remains a much more popular drink in America than coffee?
We commend Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson for his deliberate speed in taking steps that many a Fortune 500 company would fear. At the same time, we ask why is our society continually placing training on unconscious and implicit bias into a red box that says "break only in case of emergency," when we know it’s just a matter of time before another incident is caught on video and made public?
We know soon enough there’ll be another young black man lost on his way to school, shot at just for asking for directions. Or another Stephon Clark, an unarmed father killed by eight bullets in his back and shot at 20 times by Sacramento police.
In America, black people exist within the polarities of black and white. Black is normally associated with our nadir — both humans and a nation — while white our zenith. In The Souls of Black Folk, NAACP founder and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speaks of the haunting power of the “color line,” and of a double-consciousness that still shadows black people today.
“The history of the American negro is the history of this strife,” said Du Bois.
Rest - https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/08/starbucks-naacp-implicit-bias-training-racism-column/587402002/
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Before the next videotaped Starbucks disaster, everyone should take implicit bias training
Why put implicit bias training into a box that says 'break in case of emergency,' when it’s just a matter of time before the next incident of racism?
Everyone should get tested for implicit bias, and if you’re a public official or receiving public dollars — it should be mandatory. It’s just a matter of time before another black person is abused, arrested, or shot dead for flying, golfing, driving, walking or drinking coffee "while black."
We know that in another week, black Twitter will once again be enraged by another disturbing video of a black woman in Waffle House getting body-slammed to the floor by police, only to see a white man who killed four people and wounded four more at a Tennessee Waffle House brought in by police without the use of excessive force. Then there’s Starbucks.
How do we explain that racism still remains a much more popular drink in America than coffee?
We commend Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson for his deliberate speed in taking steps that many a Fortune 500 company would fear. At the same time, we ask why is our society continually placing training on unconscious and implicit bias into a red box that says "break only in case of emergency," when we know it’s just a matter of time before another incident is caught on video and made public?
We know soon enough there’ll be another young black man lost on his way to school, shot at just for asking for directions. Or another Stephon Clark, an unarmed father killed by eight bullets in his back and shot at 20 times by Sacramento police.
In America, black people exist within the polarities of black and white. Black is normally associated with our nadir — both humans and a nation — while white our zenith. In The Souls of Black Folk, NAACP founder and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois speaks of the haunting power of the “color line,” and of a double-consciousness that still shadows black people today.
“The history of the American negro is the history of this strife,” said Du Bois.
Rest - https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/05/08/starbucks-naacp-implicit-bias-training-racism-column/587402002/