Your problem its right in front of you but you refuse to see. That CEO has made it clear just from the inferences. No rocket science is need to see it.
You have heard multiple people from this board and if you looked at the comments section of the article and
the twitter comments, we all say the same thing. You just flat out refuse to believe it.
My guess is wherever you're from, you don't have many African Americans and/or have no friends that have had these experiences
themselves or could explain it to you. These racist stories happen all the effing time, everywhere, in any population center where there are African Americans.
"I'll say it again: In the minds of many on this board, there is no way a black man could be asked to leave a business and it NOT be racism"
You are correct unless it was shown that the business was ejecting people of all races. No one yet has shown that to be the case.
Not a single piece of anecdotal evidence from anyone who said they were asked to leave a starbucks when waiting.
If anything the converse it true. Multiple people had said the waited longer than these two, "for their friends to show up" without being asked to leave,
at other establishments. This is an Occam's razor moment.
I refuse to see nothing. I'm Mexican/Spanish on my father's side and was born in the Los Angeles Area. I was a newspaper photojournalist in the LA for many years covering things like the Rodney King beating and LA riots. I've covered gangs, hung out with undocumented day laborers and spent time with Latino leaders trying to better the lives of my people.
I also lived in the San Francisco East Bay area for four years, so I'm not some hick from the backwoods.
My mother's side of the family is from the Ozarks of Missouri and Oklahoma, so I've seen southern racism first hand. Now I live in North Idaho where the folks are polite, but darn white. Luckily, most folks keep opinions on race to themselves or it wouldn't be worth living up here regardless of how good the hunting, fishing and quite are.
My point is that I've seen and reported on enough racism, sexism, violence and hate in general for two lifetimes. You can claim the moral high ground and argue that I'm just too stupid or racist to see what you claim to be clear, but it's not true.
If you want to apply Occam's Razor then you've got it all wrong. It's far easier to believe that manager was just following Starbucks policy or needed the table than it is to believe she had enough hatred and racism in her heart to jeopardize her job and cause the shitstorm that has resulted. Now I'll admit I could be wrong. I don't have a crystal ball to see into the heart of that manager and know why she did what she did, like you seem to have.
Looking at the quotes in your signature I can see why you feel the way you do. Whites can never make up for the atrocities of the past, according to you. You are poisoned by racism and will never rise above reveling in it.