In reply to Jasmine.

Caleb and Septa trust me I totally get what you are saying and I myself have been guilty of going to Starbucks, working on my laptop or meeting a client, and not ordering anything. I still cannot overlook the sense of entitlement and pethaps guilt though when I lookup and see paying customers holding their coffees waiting on a table and I'm occupying one and have not bought anything. Starbucks is not a library. The manager was racist for calling the cops but the two men are in the wrong for turning down the free water. If they had the water on their table, legally when the cops came they could not have been arrested because the water made them customers.

Caleb I also don't think it is fair to generalize people on race. I live in LA and I honestly have never seen a white person sitting in starbucks without a Starbucks drink in front of them and I've been to numerous starbucks all over la. I could generalize too and say that black people have a habit of talking too loudly in resteraunts, disrupting other patrons' conversations with their loud talk and laughter, but I wont say that.