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Missouri, this recent shooting by a police officer of an unarmed man running away. do yo >> every case is different, and so my point is, yeah, there are millions of americans -- ive spoken to millions of young african-americans who feel as if they are targeted by the police theyve had experiences with the police that theyre very concerned about. quite frankly, sean ive seen it, ive witnessed it myself. not necessarily with police but maybe a friend of yours if you go to a store or something and ...

Hispanic victim, were seeing how the races are interacting on the yard. see if we might have a race problem. if the whites were on one side of the yard and the southern hispanics were on the other side then we could possibly have issues which wed probably have more response out here and remove them from the yard. or separate them. but since theyre interacting fine its not an issue right now. it appears that the whites just assisted the southern hispanics. thats what it appears, anyways. >> escor...

Thing. >> but you know its interesting. i interviewed howard schultz the ceo of starbucks this week about it. he said look this is not going to solve the race problem. and were not a perfect company. but he kept reiterating, i cannot stand by and watch this happen in our country. in your op ed you say this is putting morality above profit. are you glad to see the start, even if its not perhaps in your opinion the right place? >> oh, im thrilled to see him trying to use whatever means he has in a...

Howard schultz, the ceo of starbucks, asking him why he took this on. >> i was, like many of us in the country, watching the cultural divide and the racial issues in ferguson and new york and cleveland and most recently in madison, wisconsin, and as a result of that i decided to have a series of town hall meetings internally at starbucks, and all of the meetings were unscripted, but yet they were all the same and that was people sharing their life experience and with great empathy, compassion an...

Said i am not a republican and she sat there and had breakfast and they talked about what she stood for and she said we are republicans and i didnt know that. thats what the republican party needs to do. they probably wont do it. they should. >> they figure we dont need this group. we dont need that group. >> they are too busy doing the math. >> they are too busy losing elections. >> lets get to the next topic. >> that was excellent. lets get to the next topic. the ceo of starbucks is encouragin...

So i asked him about whether this is the right platform for such a sensitive topic in conversation. he said, we are not a perfect company. this is not going to solve the race problem. but i cannot stand by and watch this happen. and i refuse to do that. i spent part of the day yesterday over at a few different starbucks locations just asking folks what they thought. one of them who used to work at starbucks said i know this is coming from the right place, but i dont know. this is the right way t...

Serve and im trying to use our scale for good. thats the bottom line. its not a perfect solution. its not going to solve the race problem, but i do believe it is the right thing for us to do at this time as opposed to just ignoring it, being a bystander and watching cnn and other television news broadcast what is going on in madison and in ferguson and others without a solution. >> i find it fascinating, especially when he said this isnt about a stock price or pr stunt. especially when you and i...

About it with customers. >> i think it can be a primary vehicle to get people to understand that we need a new level of sensitivity around these issues and perhaps we can really create and elevate a conversation in our stores that can go well beyond our stores and perhaps convince other businesses and business leaders to join was as a result of what were going to do. >> its an interesting move, but a panel debated starbuckss decision. >> i think the danger here is it reduces race talk to a quick...

Vehicle to get people to understand that we need a new level of sensitivity and understanding around these issues. and perhaps we can again really create and elevate a conversation in our stores that could go well beyond our stores. perhaps we can convince other businesses and business leaders to join with us as a result of what were going to do. >> earlier on cnn, a panel debated starbucks decision tackle race relations. take a license. >> i think the danger is that it reduces racial inequality...

Doj and the department of homeland security for two and a half years. nobody here took this as a small problem. everybody was deathly afraid of this. the fact that this has only been acknowledged recently, thats only certain branchs of the government. isis is clearly is more able -- is better able to recruit english speaking westerners and al qaeda and any of these groups have in the past. >> well be looking for the footholds they have established for those english speaking westerners. always go...