They didn’t get much attention, for obvious reasons — but believe it or not, a handful of white people actually managed to win major civil rights lawsuits during the BLM revolution. As the largest companies on the planet began discriminating against white employees — denying them promotions, firing them, putting their resumes at the bottom of the pile, and so on — a small number of white people decided to invoke their constitutional rights. They went to court. And they came away with tens of millions of dollars. And we should talk more about these stories, especially since they could inspire more victims of anti-white discrimination to take their case to court. One of the most egregious examples involved Starbucks, which was run by CEO Howard Schultz at the time. You may remember this sordid episode in American history, when a couple of black guys walked into a Starbucks and sat down without placing an order. The store wouldn’t let them loiter or use the bathroom without making a purchase — which makes sense, since it’s a private business and they don’t want the property to become a crackhouse. But the two black guys decided that this was their “Rosa Parks” moment. They refused to leave to the point that they were arrested for trespassing. In response, instead of demonstrating a semblance of integrity or courage in the face of a mob, Howard Schultz shut down every Starbucks store for “Racial bias” training, issued a payout to the black customers, attacked his own employees, and groveled on CNN. Watch: Source: CNN Business/YouTube.com So Howard Schultz went on national television and threw his employees under the bus. He accepted the premise of CNN’s question — which is that these black guys were only thrown out of the store because they were black, even though there was precisely zero evidence of that. What happened next is that, amid all of this hysteria, Starbucks fired a white manager who had nothing to do with this incident whatsoever. They couldn’t fire the black manager who actually oversaw operations in this particular store. So Starbucks told a white regional manager named Shannon Phillips to terminate a white manager at a nearby district, as a way of demonstrating that Starbucks was serious about racial equity. And when Phillips refused, they fired her instead. She then sued and won more than $25 million. Watch: Source: NBC News/YouTube.com You’d be hard-pressed to find a better illustration of how self-described “progressives” like Howard Schultz operate. He makes a big show of major reform in the name of equity. He says that he’ll make Starbucks lobbies and bathrooms open to everyone, whether they make a purchase or not. He goes on national television to berate his employees for being white supremacists. And then, just a few years later, he’s gone from the company. Starbucks has started opening offices in Tennessee for up to 2,000 employees to escape the mayhem of Seattle. The bathroom policy returned because vagrants were treating Starbucks like a crackhouse. And Starbucks has to pay tens of millions of dollars because, in fact, there were no white supremacists working at Starbucks. But Starbucks did have an awful lot of executives who despise the white working class. But Starbucks isn’t the only thing that Howard Schultz has left in ruins, without any sense of shame or reflection or self-awareness. After decades of relentlessly promoting Left-wing politics, which have destroyed his hometown of Seattle, Schultz has now fled to Florida — just in time to avoid a massive new “wealth tax” that Washington State is implementing.  Watch: Source: KING 5 News/YouTube.com Notice that Schultz — even as he’s abandoning the city where he lived for decades — still can’t bring himself to condemn any aspect of the Left-wing politics that have destroyed Seattle. He can’t condemn the fact that Leftists have turned downtown into a drug den. He can’t condemn the anti-white racism that just cost his company tens of millions of dollars. He can’t even condemn the fact that Leftists are attempting to confiscate 10% of all household income over one million dollars, even though the Constitution of Washington State makes it illegal to tax income. Something like 30,000 residents will be directly affected, although of course, the actual effect is going to be much larger. When businesses close down and rich people leave, the result is fewer jobs and less tax revenue. It’s important to understand that Howard Schultz is not the exception. There’s now an epidemic of rich Leftists fleeing from Democrat-controlled jurisdictions. These people supported Democrat policies, and now they’re running away from the natural consequences of those policies. Jeff Bezos moved from Seattle to Florida in 2023. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin moved from California (which is also planning a massive wealth tax) to Florida in the past year. Ken Griffin, the co-founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, who donated to both Obama and Biden, just moved from Chicago — where Citadel employees were getting robbed all the time — to Miami.  Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber, moved from California to Austin. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg, who spent half a billion dollars to help Democrats in 2020, just announced the purchase of a mansion in Miami, so he’s apparently leaving California as well.  Watch: Source: FOX Business/YouTube.com And on and on it goes. We are witnessing a mass exodus of billionaires from states that have been destroyed by their politics. In every case, these billionaires either endorsed Left-wing policies or didn’t object as those policies were taking hold. And now that things have gotten out of hand — and major American cities are becoming overtly socialist — they’re all running away. And as you just heard, it’s not just the billionaires who are fleeing. Here’s one way to put the numbers in context: Right now, without any foreign migration, California would lose something like 120,000 people per year. New York would lose around 100,000. On the other hand, Texas is on track to gain hundreds of thousands of residents, even without any foreign migration. So is Florida. So a lot of people — not just the wealthy — are escaping these hellholes that Democrats have created. For the most part, the only people who are willing to live in New York (or downtown Los Angeles) are coming here from the third world. Those are the only people who see America’s urban centers as tolerable places to live. These are the kind of people who are doing most of the damage, by the way.