双语：扒一扒星巴克种族歧视的黑历史

星巴克最近负面新闻有点多。两个黑人在星巴克等朋友，但是因为没买东西就被店员报警抓走了，虽然随后因为缺乏罪证被释放，但是警察捉人的视频还是在网上火了。星巴克将在 5 月 19 日关闭全美国超过 8000 家门店对店员进行种族歧视矫正。尽管这算是迈出了正确的一步，但这已经不是星巴克第一次和种族歧视扯在一起了。今天的日常英语资讯我们来扒一扒星巴克种族歧视的黑历史！

In 1994, former employee Tracy Coleman, who is black, said her supervisor requested to call her Toby, referencing a main character from the television mini-series and book Roots. She and another employee who stood up for her were fired within a couple months of each other. The case was eventually settled for an undisclosed sum.

1994年，星巴克的一位前雇员，名叫 Tracy Coleman，说她的上司叫她 Toby，这个名字来源于一部迷你电视剧《Roots》的主角。她和另一位站出来维护她的员工被双双炒了鱿鱼。这起官司最后是赔钱了事，也不知道星巴克赔了多少钱。

After two black men were shot and killed by Seattle police within a year, activists with People’s Coalition for Justice organized a boycott of a Starbucks in the city’s quickly gentrifying Central District. The protest was criticized by some who saw the efforts as misguided, citing the company’s local philanthropic work and the fact that it was in no way involved in the shootings. Nevertheless, protesters used the store as a symbol of the fraught racial politics in the company’s hometown.

在一年内西雅图警方两次击毙黑人后，People’s Coalition for Justice 组织了一次对星巴克的抵制活动。但后来有人批评了这次活动，因为觉得抵制的方向不对，他们举例了星巴克为当地慈善事业做的贡献，同时指出枪击事件和星巴克没有关系。然而，抗议者将星巴克视作西雅图种族主义政治的象征。

After Azmera Mehrbatu, an Ethiopian immigrant and mother of three, was fired from a Starbucks in St. Paul, Minnesota for alleged theft, her coworkers and other supporters picketed the store in protest of her treatment.

Azmera Mehrbatu 是一位埃塞俄比亚移民也是三个孩子的母亲，Minneapolis 的星巴克门店

In 2014, an employee at a Milwaukee Starbucks called police on 31-year-old Dontre Hamilton, an black resident who had a history of mental illness, after they noticed him sleeping in a nearby park. The police officer who arrived killed Hamilton by shooting him 14 times. The killing prompted protests which later led to policy changes within MPD. Additionally, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz met with the Hamilton family in Wisconsin.