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							<title><![CDATA[Blackness Means You're a Problem, Not a Customer]]></title>
							<link>https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/a-conversation-about-starbucks-white-fear-and-being-black-in-public.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tressie Cottom</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, an employee at a Philadelphia Starbucks called the police on two black men who were waiting for the arrival of a business partner without having ordered anything at the counter. When police arrived, the men were arrested for trespassing. A bystander caught the encounter on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race Is Always the Issue]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/race-is-always-the-issue/405295/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tressie Cottom</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Every conversation about resources in the United States is also about race and racism. Like parents choosing a neighborhood for its &ldquo;good schools,&rdquo; Americans talk about prison and crime as a means of discussing race and racism in polite company.One needn&rsquo;t hate...]]></description>
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