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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,881 posts)
Fri Aug 12, 2022, 08:34 PM Aug 2022

Black-owned coffee shop in Shoreline targeted with new threats of racism

Black Coffee Northwest, a coffee shop in Shoreline, has been receiving racist, violent phone calls and voicemails for the past three weeks. This isn’t the first time the shop has dealt with vandalism or racist threats. Back in 2020, the shop was hit with Molotov cocktails in an attempt to burn it down.

Soriah Swinton and her co-worker are the baristas that took the original phone call.

“Instantly, it was just like, right off the bat, like swearing, and you guys are the worst, and that’s when I pulled out my phone and was like, I’m going to record this because this is a hate crime,” Swinton said. She told KIRO 7 that it keeps happening.

“This is like, literally, a hate crime. I don’t know how else to explain it besides that,” Swinton said. “It made me sad that the world is still like this.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/black-owned-coffee-shop-in-shoreline-targeted-with-new-threats-of-racism/ar-AA10BThY

Oh FFS

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Black-owned coffee shop in Shoreline targeted with new threats of racism (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2022 OP
should be easy enuff to trace the call nt msongs Aug 2022 #1
Kick Demovictory9 Aug 2022 #2
the ex-first traitor llashram Aug 2022 #3

llashram

(6,265 posts)
3. the ex-first traitor
Fri Aug 12, 2022, 08:58 PM
Aug 2022

brought this on...I grew up with hate based on one criterion. One's skin colour. I truly thought I would never see this type of hate openly incited based on colour, again. Here is a good American living her dream(s). Then some racist clown disturbs that. He's probably a loser felon like the soon-to-be felon that told him his behaviour is correct. I am so sad that so many Americans had hidden their hate that was released by trump. So easily. Well I hope the racist in this OP chokes on his hate.

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