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Tim Cook Reminds Employees 'Apple Is Open' After Australian Retail Store Employee Bars Black Teens
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Oh gosh...it's gonna be one of those #blacklivesmatter.
This is the statement of the entitled and out of touch mentality. This is the type of person that will never be subject to walking into a store with their own demographic and be asked to leave because of how their appearance is.
This world still has a hell of long way to go. Soo so evident.
That would be the case if they saw genders of the same sex giving public displays of affection then were subsequently and apparently asked to leave because of it.
What about the rest of the story? The fact that the students came in the store before the video was shot, and after having security guards around them they left. They then came back, and for some reason decided to video. Why would they think they would need a camera?
You size people up. It's something we should do every day. If you don't it's rather foolish.
You look at facial expressions, posture - all kinds of factors.
And of course we can be wrong at times. But we're right often enough that we should pay attention to the signs. I pretty sure I could trust the guy on the right more than one (or both) of the guys I mentioned.
The issue was sorted. What else do u want, a cake, a notion of everything that happened not just the talk that got video'ed? they got it done..... there is nothing more to apologize for.
The only other reason, is so the public would know this 'missing' info which didn't get on video...
but why would that change outcome.. ?
Unacceptable... for sure.... but i wouldn't be exactly failing the store (as its only Apple which does that).
it can happen to any store, Apple or not, and mistakes do happen.
The only other reason, is so the public would know this 'missing' info which didn't get on video...
but why would that change outcome.. ?
Unacceptable... for sure.... but i wouldn't be exactly failing the store (as its only Apple which does that).
it can happen to any store, Apple or not, and mistakes do happen.
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Only on this moronic website can doing well equate to being a thief. Yes, they have a successful company. No, that isn't stealing. People voluntarily give them money for premium products that you can't get from anyone else.
it would be really funny if the school cleaned the place out a few weeks later
Come on, a 30 second video where a store manager asks some people to leave because they might steal something is not enough to draw a conclusion about anything. Talk to the store manager, get his side of the story, review CCTV footage before the incident, ask other employees what they saw etc, then you know what happened for sure and can draw some conclusions.
Remember the Michael Brown incident? It was a cop shooting an unarmed black teenager who was fleeing with his back to the cop. But then it came out in the trial that he was actually a giant of a guy who had assaulted the cop, tried to grab his gun, and was then charging at him. Kinda changed the initial allegations of RACISM RACISM didn't it?
Can you tell us where Apple is not paying the 'correct' tax, according to the law?
The Apple manager will likely get fired, but he will end up working for another Australian company that is not bothered by his racist values.
Every time it involves black people or other non-white people it seems whatever you do you will be a racist and thats sad. Im white and if i don't like some other white guy well thats ok, you don't like him. But if thats a black, red or yellow guy you're a racists.
Asking kids to leave the store because he thinks they might steal something = RACIALSIT RACIST TRACIST RACIST !!1!!!!
Come on, you can't know someone's values from 30 seconds of video footage.
I think it would be interesting if MacRumors filtered some key buzzwords on PRSI for a while such as "racist/racism". Half of the posts wouldn't make sense
Wow. Certainly one of the most ridiculous responses I've read on a forum for a while. Sincerely. You're generalising based on one (1!) person's response to you. Mind boggling.
I agree, the video doesn't show anything that preceded the exchange. These weren't the first black kids to go into that Apple store. Whatever this group was doing caused suspicion. I think that if they weren't planning to steal something then they intended to provoke a response like this. Along with bomb clock boy and the fake racism at Mizzou lie-athon, this looks to be the latest liberal-left, Mass Media attack on Western culture.
I think it would be interesting if MacRumors filtered some key buzzwords on PRSI for a while such as "racist/racism". Half of the posts wouldn't make sense
Most stuff that gets posted here doesn't make sense already.
I have read every post, and have seen none approving of racism or even nearly approving of racism.
I have read many good posts suggesting that no racism was used by the Apple staff.
Haha you probably don't even realize the racial undertones in your ridiculous post.
They will never open a store in Compton, Inglewood, or other poor/low income areas because they are POOR. Same reason they don't open Apple stores in poor white neighborhoods and towns either. Apple doesn't care about the color of the people who live around their stores, they care about their income. The only color that matters to Apple is green. That's called business.
Also there is a major difference in the required income demographics needed to support an Apple Store and those required to support a grocery store. So you're attempting to draw a parallel between two totally unrelated things. Please think before posting more nonsense.
What's happening in Paris is vile, and this situation is also vile. Child slavery, is also vile. Murder, that's also vie. What's happening at the University of Missouri, also vile.
The word "vile" isn't applied exclusively to one incident - it can be used to describe a multitude/set of instances that someone views as "extremely unpleasant".
During the process of "sizing" someone up, we apply established generalizations, that have been proven correct or false in single occurrences, or that have been reinforced by group thinking or societal norms.
ie: most crime is committed by blacks, therefore, if I see a group of black kids they must be committing crime
Sadly, these preconceived ideas are false - most crime is committed overwhelmingly by caucasians, even when adjusted for population size. NYT wrote an article recently on this.
Changing these long standing beliefs is very difficult, because we will be forced to confront ourself and realize that our thinking was wrong - and that's very hard to do. So instead, we hold fast to our false believes. We reject claims that differ, and believe in a reality that doesn't exists (ie: racism is dead because we have a black president; if there was still racism, there wouldn't be a black president)
Food for thought. Why don't we apply our generalizations in the opposite direction?
ie: I met a stranger the other day at Starbucks. They actually paid for my order, and told me to pass it on - so I paid for the next persons order in line. (Here comes the generalization). All strangers are kind nice people. In fact, I'm going to teach my 5 year old daughter to talk to all strangers because they are kind.
Seriously???!!??? No. That one stranger was kind. That one person was kind. Not all black people are murders, thieves, drug dealers. Not all police officers are corrupt. Not all white people are racist. We need to stop attributing the actions of 1 and applying it to an entire population/group. Identify that singular person and attribute their actions to that person only - not an entire population of people.
Sigh.
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so the reaction then would be, if someone messes up, they should be fired for it asap ? I'd like to know what line of work you do
I hope you aren't being serious. Until you realize that everyone who walks into an Apple store has the potential to steal something - including celebrities (Lindsay Lohan), you will finally understand.
Apple should have equally targeted everyone in the store "because they might steal something" equally. Yes even that adult person who is wearing expensive clothing. I'm looking at you Lindsay Lohan, and you too Joseph Randle. When we fail to realize that our preconception of what someone "looks like" that "might steal something" and focus on a group of kids - we miss the adult in the corner that just swiped an iPhone case.
The manager made it very clear - "we are worried you might steal something". They haven't done anything - but yet they were worried "you might steal something".
What does a thief even look like? Lindsay Lohan? Brittney Spears? Courtney Love? Beth Ditto? Megan Fox (she stole a $7 lipgloss from walmart)? Farrah Fawcett? Winona Ryder?
Seems to me that we need to look out for all white females - No?
The correct answer is no. That would be racial & gender profiling if I told a group of white females to leave because "we are worried you might steal something", while a group of black females are checking out the new iphones.
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