Editorial: 'Roseanne' and Starbucks in Trump's America
by The Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
May 30, 2018
2 minutes
One place to meet and discuss the significance of Roseanne Barr being fired for a racist tweet would have been the local coffee shop - but not Starbucks. All 8,000 company-owned locations closed Tuesday afternoon for racial sensitivity training.
Do those two events - Barr is punished while Starbucks reassesses - constitute progress in the struggle against discrimination? Or
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