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Starbucks Faces Racism Allegations Again After A Customer Said He Was Called A ...


Starbucks has faced multiple allegations of racism following two back-to-back incidents in Philadelphia and Torrance, California, last month, leading the company to announce the closure of 8,000 stores for a racial bias training.


The store closure is slated to take place on May 29, but less than than two weeks before the training, Starbucks is facing new allegations of racism , this time in La Cañada, California.


A Latino customer named Pedro has accused Starbucks employees of writing a Racial Slur on his cups.


The two men — Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson — were real estate developers who hadn't yet purchased anything because they were waiting for an investor to meet them there, but were accused of trespassing after asking to use the bathroom.


Not longer after that first incident, a black man named Brandon Ward accused a Starbucks in Torrance of racism , claiming that baristas had denied him the code to the bathroom.


According to The Washington Post , Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson met with Nelson and Robinson — the two men who had been arrested in Philadelphia — to offer them his apologies face-to-face .


According to NBC4, the Starbucks in La Cañada offered Pedro a $50 gift card as an apology, but he told Telemundo 52 — NBC4's sister station — that he refused to accept it because "it’s like an insult overall."




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