The Starbucks thing

In that first article LTL quoted from, this passage in particular ...

"When [a Starbucks opens] in a black community, a concern is whether the cafe actually will adopt the character of that black neighborhood, or if it will traffic in the kind of values that personify it as a 'white space'"

... I'm really scratching my head over.

 

It means will they play Taylor Swift, dq.

 

Subjective fear based on media coverage of crime for 50years

Or

Philly

 

This elaborates a little on the neighborhood, and the phenomenology.

In America, Blackness Means You’re a Problem, Not a Customer


This talks about the idea of a "white space."

The Philadelphia Starbucks Was a White Space

 

I am totally out of place in any Starbucks, and I'm really white.

 

Starbucks has long been a safe place for whites. Basic bitch student union

 

For some reason, I get funny looks when I ask, "Y'all got any Diet Dr Pepper?"

 

I'd read those ... still kind of scratching my head. I mean, I get the point ... it's just that the point rests on a foundation that seems awfully, awfully shaky to me.

 

Alex Jones to the rescue ...

 

Well, they didn't shoot anyone.
Or even tase or pepper spray anyone.
Baby steps.

 

Some stores have restroom locks requiring keys, some have locks requiring codes.
I say, make sure all your stores have locks requiring codes.
Then have the code -- which you can change daily or whenever -- print out on the cash register receipts.
Customers only.

 

This kind of feels like you don't really understand the actual problem here.