Actress Thandie Newton is none too happy with the popular coffee chain, Starbucks, and it has nothing to do with bad coffee or even bad customer service. The actress is upset over what one chain store chose to display on their counter, that the actress found to be a little racist.
Newton, who starred alongside Oprah Winfrey in the film Beloved, walked into a Starbucks and became immediately offended according to In Touch by what she saw. Seated on the counter top was a statue of a young boy holding coffee beans. The boy, wearing "loin cloth and safari hat" as described by Newton, was a bit too much for the actress. So much so, the 43-year-old expressed her discontent in a Twitter post, where she captured the image of the statue and tagged the popular chain.
Seriously @Starbucks? At the counter - Loin cloth and Safari hat on a black child. Happy New Year circa 19th century pic.twitter.com/kD3qgKmti1
— Thandie Newton (@thandienewton) January 4, 2016
Starbucks responded to Newton in their own apologetic message.
@thandienewton we are very concerned to learn of this incident & we can’t apologise enough. We have removed the figure & are investigating. — Starbucks Help (@starbuckshelp) January 5, 2016
The Starbucks was located in London according to People.
Newton is an English actress who has starred in films like The Pursuit Of Happyness; Mission: Impossible II and the 2010 film For Colored Girls, a film which spoke to the hardships of a group of black women and was based on Ntozake Shange's original play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf.
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