Florida Attorney General Files Complaint For Discrimination Against White People
Demands Investigation Against Starbucks
I saw a news article reporting that the Florida Attorney General, Ashley Moody, has filed a complaint against Starbucks, accusing them of racial discrimination. Being a Florida resident, this immediately sounded suspicious to me because Moody, who does nothing against the will of Governor Ron DeSantis, has never done anything to protect racial minorities in the state. She has supported book bans in Escambia County, mainly the works of Black and LGBTQ authors. Moody backed the flights of immigrants to Democratic strongholds and dumped them without warning. She said the immigrants were “volunteers.”
A little reading into the article proved me right. The complaint was that Starbucks was planning to hire too many minorities. Moody cited a 2022 Starbucks press release with the goal of “achieving BIPOC representation of at least 30 percent at all corporate levels and at least 40 percent of all retail and manufacturing roles by 2025 in the U.S.”
Starbucks went further to detail what their workforce looked like in October 2021. “Starbuck's U.S. partner base was 71.3% female and 48.2% BIPOC. Breaking down our BIPOC representation further, our partners are 7.7% Black, 28.5% Hispanic or Latinx, 5.9%…
