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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Hey Starbucks, is it my skin colour?'
Brandon Ward, a black customer denied access to a toilet in a California Starbucks, films Weston, a white customer, who was given the code before purchasing a drink.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-43803310/hey-starbucks-is-it-my-skin-colour
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-43803310/hey-starbucks-is-it-my-skin-colour
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'Hey Starbucks, is it my skin colour?' (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
Apr 2018
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uponit7771
(90,347 posts)1. This is bad
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)4. Happy to say ....
That I've never bought or tasted anything Starbucks-related.
And I never will, especially after what happened with those 2 black males who were arrested in Philadelphia for merely having the nerve to sit in a Starbucks while black.
Starbucks, you can ....
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)2. It's not your skin "colour", it's your funny British accent
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)3. The answer is yes. n/t