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10th January 2016
10:32am GMT

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 with an apology and said the statue had since been removed and an "investigation" was underway.
@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
Thandie wasn't the only one to get annoyed by the display and there were a number of replies to her tweet.
@starbuckshelp How does that happen in the first place? Who authorized? You have a store of employees, and no one thought, "2016. Bad idea."
— Eric Jerome Dickey (@EricJDickey) January 8, 2016
@thandienewton @Starbucks NO JUST NO
— shannonwoodward (@shannonwoodward) January 4, 2016
@starbuckshelp @thandienewton Hope so. I see this figure in a store, I'm not coming back.
— Dionne Obeso (@DionneObeso) January 6, 2016
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