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Starbucks CEO to meet with Dontre Hamilton's family (Milwaukee)( Foolish Man )
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 3/25/2015 | Annysa Johnson

Posted on 03/25/2015 1:16:41 PM PDT by UB355

The CEO of Starbucks, who was scorned for his recent effort to spark a national conversation on race, is planning to meet with the family of Dontre Hamilton, the African-American man killed by a Milwaukee police officer last year after Starbucks employees called to report him sleeping in Red Arrow Park, according to Hamilton's brother and others close to the family.

Nate Hamilton said Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is scheduled to meet with the family on April 1 in Milwaukee. Efforts to reach the Seattle-based company Tuesday and Wednesday to confirm the visit were not successful.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: starbucks; wisconsin
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1 posted on 03/25/2015 1:16:41 PM PDT by UB355
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To: UB355

This guy needs to heed the First Rule of Holes. Stop digging.


2 posted on 03/25/2015 1:21:31 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: UB355

He’s doing a bang up job alienating many of his customers. Is he trying to bankrupt the company?


3 posted on 03/25/2015 1:22:28 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: UB355

Maybe the family of Dontre Hamilton will ask this white bread cracker why the top executives at Starbucks are all white men? Ask him why there are no Starbucks in Ferguson, Selma, and thousands of other black neighborhoods?

Ask him if he’s paid his fair share shakedown money to the revrunt Al?


4 posted on 03/25/2015 1:24:23 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (With Great Freedom comes Great Responsibility.)
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To: UB355

I hope they rake his rich azz over the coals for being a dutch bag.


5 posted on 03/25/2015 1:27:42 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: UB355
 
 
The Board of Directors/investors need to get this dude by the shorthairs, quick. He's wandering off into the tall weeds and dragging the company with him.
 
 

6 posted on 03/25/2015 1:32:01 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: UB355

Starbucks...can’t place it...hmm...isn’t that the company that used to sell beverages to me?


7 posted on 03/25/2015 1:33:30 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: UB355

How has the board not ousted this idiot?


8 posted on 03/25/2015 1:34:35 PM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: UB355

A few million from Schulz ought to repay the grieving family who lost a future rapper.


9 posted on 03/25/2015 1:34:47 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: UB355

I certainly hope he is doing this trip in an armored car.

I left Milwaukee in Feb of 1964 & it was an unsafe hell hole then. Never went back. Never intend to do so.


10 posted on 03/25/2015 1:42:03 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: AppyPappy
I hope they rake his rich azz over the coals for being a dutch bag.

"a dutch bag", haha. Not being grammar police, laughing as if its intentional.

11 posted on 03/25/2015 2:02:19 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Talk about a moral ‘preener.’ This guy wants to run for office.


12 posted on 03/25/2015 2:38:45 PM PDT by AdaGray
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Hey Schultz — the cops kill homeless whites too you stupid race baiting liberal ahole.


13 posted on 03/25/2015 3:04:14 PM PDT by NoncompliantOne (Non Compliant)
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To: UB355

Calling the cops is almost always a bad idea.


14 posted on 03/25/2015 3:06:44 PM PDT by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: UB355

I can safely say I have never spent a dime in Starbucks. I have been inside. I just can’t bring myself to spend $5 for a cup of ‘African American’ coffee or a $3 glass of hot water for some tea. Now. I am certainly glad i have never spent a penny on that brand.


15 posted on 03/25/2015 4:03:06 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: lapsus calami

http://investor.starbucks.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=99518&p=irol-govboard

Board of Directors

Howard Schultz
Starbucks
founder, chairman, president and chief executive officer

William (Bill) Bradley
Allen & Company LLC
managing director

Robert M. Gates
former Secretary of Defense

Mellody Hobson
Ariel Investments, LLC
president

Kevin Johnson
Juniper Networks, Inc.
retired chief executive officer

Olden Lee
PepsiCo, Inc.
retired executive

Joshua Cooper Ramo
Kissinger Associates
vice chairman

James Shennan, Jr.
Trinity Ventures
general partner emeritus

Clara Shih
Hearsay Social, Inc.
chief executive officer

Javier Teruel
Colgate - Palmolive Company
retired vice chairman

Myron Ullman, III
J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
chief executive officer

Craig Weatherup
Pepsi-Cola Company
retired chief executive officer


16 posted on 03/25/2015 4:14:49 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Organic Panic

You know, you don’t have to buy the most expensive item on the menu. I can get a cup of coffee for $1.50 at the local Starbucks and that’s the same price for coffee at several other local coffee shops.


17 posted on 03/25/2015 4:34:21 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

It’s a gaming term to get around language detectors.


18 posted on 03/25/2015 6:31:22 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

A term of art, so to speak.


19 posted on 03/25/2015 6:33:32 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: UB355; onyx; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; DonkeyBonker; Wisconsinlady; ...

Starbucks CEO to meet with family of man killed in park (after the nearby Starbucks employees reprted him sleeping.)

FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.


20 posted on 03/26/2015 6:36:45 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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