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Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson were waiting to meet a business associate in Starbucks. After two minutes, the store manager called the police and the African-American men were removed from the caf\\xe9 in handcuffs.

The Starbucks CEO has described the incident as \\u201cracial profiling\\u201d, claiming that the manager acted on unconscious racial bias. In response, he closed 8,000 branches of the coffee giant so his staff could attend anti-bias training.

It\\u2019s not just Starbucks - diversity training, such as this, has become a multi-million dollar global business. On this week\\u2019s Inquiry, we examine why these biases are so ingrained and what we can do to eradicate them.

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