On Nov 19, 4:59*pm, Mentifex > wrote:
> Dear Howard,
>
> Yesterday I was in your Richmond Beach
> Starbucks #385 at
> 606 Richmond Beach Road,
> Shoreline, WA 98177
> and I witnessed a crime of assault
> which disturbed me immensely.
>
> Let me change a few names to protect the
> guilty while I describe what happened.
>
> For several months a Native American fellow
> has had the nerve to come into your upscale
> whites-only Starbucks just outside of the
> exclusive, wealthy white neighborhood of
> Innis Arden, founded decades ago with
> a sign reading "Innis Arden -- A Restricted
> Community." Back then only blue-blood whites
> could buy a home in Innis Arden. The laws
> have since changed, but the Innis Arden
> residents still have the exclusive attitude.
>
> So Mrs. Woodway and her lady friend were
> sitting at a long table and proudly showing
> each other pictures of their daughters,
> while down-and-out looking Injun Cronshaw
> was sitting at a corner of the same table
> with his Cadillac parked outside and his
> Apple computer on the same table.
>
> Apparently Mrs. Woodway did not like
> sharing the same Starbucks table with
> a beefy, stocky, middle-aged Indian male
> who looked like he came in from Skid Row.
> Mrs. Woodway went over to the barista Hayley
> and complained that maybe Injun Cronshaw
> might be photographing her and her white-lady
> friend and perhaps even capturing secondary
> images of the photographs of their daughters.
> So your Starbucks barista Hayley called the
> Shoreline police, who came right away and
> assaulted the Injun who was obviously guilty
> of DWI: _Drinking-coffee _While _Indian.
>
> Before I describe the crime against your
> Starbucks customer by Shoreline's Finest,
> let me as a disclaimer state that about
> twelve years ago I used to see the Injun
> Cronshaw hanging around in Seattle's
> Wallingford neighborhood -- before Injun
> Crownshaw inherited a sizeable fortune.
> Back then the Injun Cronshaw came one time
> to a hotel where I was working and he was
> selling the "Real Change" homeless newspaper.
> Then a year or two later I encountered the
> Injun at a Starbucks in the University
> District, and he told me that his Indian
> father back in Montana or thereabouts had
> just died and bequeathed to him a thousand
> acres of Indian land, worth over a million
> dollars.
>
> Then yesterday I am sitting in your #385
> Starbucks and I see the Shoreline police
> interrogating the D.W.I Indian outside at
> a Starbucks table. The Injun is cycling
> through images on his Apple computer and
> apparently trying to show the Gestapo that
> he had not been taking pictures of wealthy
> white women in their upscale #385 Starbucks.
> Then the Injun was walking around for a while
> outside, while a total of six Shoreline
> police officers gathered around him.
>
> Meanwhile, inside your fancy Starbucks #385,
> people were whispering to one another the
> crimes of the D.W.I. Injun. In his Cadillac
> (you're not going to believe such evil, H.S.)
> the upstart, does-not-know-his-place Indian
> had (GASP!) stuffed animals on the back seat.
>
> He had the look and demeanor of a street bum.
> Apparently the Starbucks message to Indians
> and street-bums is, if you want to drink coffee
> while Indian in a Starbucks, go to a Starbucks
> on the Indian Reservation or in the ghetto --
> if you can find a Starbucks there. Do Not
> expect wealthy white women from Innis Arden
> or Richmond Beach to share even a longish
> Starbucks table with you. Howard, maybe you
> could have signs made for all your upscale
> Starbucks outlets: NO DOGS OR INDIANS ALLOWED.
>
> I saw and heard the Shoreline police yell at
> the Starbucks customer for smoking a cigarette
> within twenty-five feet of the store entrance.
> But besides the crime of assaulting your
> Starbucks customer, Howard, the Shoreline
> wealthy-women-defense-squad did not cite
> the unfortunate Injun for any crime. Instead,
> after he had walked around a bit, they led
> him back to the Starbucks table and then
> they assaulted the Native American Indian
> by forcibly slamming him down into a metal
> Starbucks chair. (Message to down-and-out
> Indians and other minorities: Thank you
> for daring to buy coffee at Starbucks;
> if you dare to come back, you will be
> arrested and jailed, after we assault you.)
> They did not arrest the hapless, bewildered
> Injun yesterday, but they made him sign a
> paper authorizing his arrest and jailing
> if he tries to come back to Starbucks #385.

Starbuck don't come with equality-coffee...