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TexasTowelie

(116,413 posts) Wed Oct 21, 2020, 04:32 AM Oct 2020

White Santee customer berates Black Starbucks barista in viral video

SANTEE — A Santee Starbucks customer who is White loudly berated a barista and shouted an obscenity Sunday after the barista, who is Black, asked her to wear her mask on her face. The encounter went viral on social media Monday and is on the barista’s GoFundMe page.

In the video the barista, Alex Beckom, 19, is serving a female customer who had a Trump 2020 mask on her chin but not on her face. The video shows the woman, who is unidentified, saying to Beckom that the barista is discriminating against her “because I’m a Trump supporter.”

“F--- Black Lives Matter,” the woman says.

The woman then asks for a straw and sugar packets, which Beckom cheerfully hands her and the woman thanks her.

When Beckom again asks the woman to keep her mask on the next time she comes to the store, the woman again becomes agitated, saying wearing a mask is “not the law” and that COVID-19 is “a hoax.”

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White Santee customer berates Black Starbucks barista in viral video (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2020 OP

The customer should have been refused service Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #1

An elderly poll worker here asked a voter to doc03 Oct 2020 #2

The barista showed true class. I'm proud of her. jaxexpat Oct 2020 #3

Agreed. I work as a cashier and we have to remain professional no_hypocrisy Oct 2020 #4

Hats off to cashiers, waitstaff and baristas. Any and all who man the tills of our economy. jaxexpat Oct 2020 #5

Identified, name published and public apology in 3Hotdogs Oct 2020 #6

😭😭😭That's not who I am..😭😭 irisblue Oct 2020 #9

Dog is like...."naah, I smell crazy, I'm staying here..." irisblue Oct 2020 #7

This is the same Santee which had the two separate incidents of shoppers wearing Nazi chia Oct 2020 #8

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

1. The customer should have been refused service

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2020, 05:18 AM

Oct 2020

And ejected from the store.

doc03

(36,518 posts)

2. An elderly poll worker here asked a voter to

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2020, 05:36 AM

Oct 2020

put his mask on and he starts cusing and throws the ballot in her face. Trump supporters were coming to the polls wearing MAGA caps, clothing and flags on their vehicles. The sheriff had to post a deputy at the polls to keep order. That's what we deal with.

jaxexpat

(7,630 posts)

3. The barista showed true class. I'm proud of her.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Oct 21, 2020, 06:08 AM

Oct 2020

Though public exhibition of her passive-aggressive debating skills may dampen her marriage prospects with insecure and self-important suitors. Alas, the wages of social ambience.

no_hypocrisy

(48,555 posts)

4. Agreed. I work as a cashier and we have to remain professional

Reply to jaxexpat (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 21, 2020, 06:14 AM

Oct 2020

even when provoked to do otherwise. And don't think we haven't been tempted.

I'm also impressed that the barista didn't fall back on calling a supervisor for this situation.