Businesses across the US, some say, are guilty of a behavior so commonplace it is starting to be given its own term: “coffee shop racism”. “I open the door to a coffee shop, and as soon as I get inside I feel the stares,” he wrote. Why have coffee shops become a place where America’s racial divisions and biases are being exposed? “This reprehensible incident is an important reminder of how implicit racial bias – or in this case coffee shop racism – works,” Nabi wrote. Kamau Bell, a comedian who hosts the show United Shades of America on CNN, spoke about his own brush with coffee shop racism.

Source: The Guardian May 28, 2018 06:00 UTC