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		</div><p>Starbucks founder and chairman Howard Schultz has said the events surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend have put the &#8220;moral fibre&#8221; of the US in question.</p>
<p>Mr Schultz, speaking at an employee forum in Seattle on Tuesday, said he has &#8220;profound concern about the lack of character, morality, humanity&#8221; displayed at the rally, according to a recap of the meeting posted on Starbucks&#8217; website.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The moral fibre, the values, and what we as a country have stood for is literally hanging in the abyss,&#8221;</i> Mr Schultz told employees.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We are at a critical juncture in American history. That is not an exaggeration. We are at and facing a crucible in which our daily life is being challenged and being questioned about what is right and what is wrong.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>A throng of hundreds, mostly white men and many carrying guns, converged on the college town on Saturday yelling anti-Semitic and racist slurs and carrying Confederate flags and neo-Nazi and KKK signs.</p>
<p>A street fight broke out between them and counter-protesters, and a woman was killed and others injured when a man drove a car into people marching against the rally.</p>
<p>After the violence, President Donald Trump was criticised for putting the blame on both sides and saying both sides included &#8220;very fine people&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Schultz was not a member of either of Mr Trump&#8217;s two panels of business leaders that were dissolved on Wednesday after several chief executives stepped down in protest over Mr Trump&#8217;s comments.</p>
<p>He told his employees he would let the actions and words of the president speak for themselves.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;What we witnessed this past weekend &#8230; is against every sense of what is right,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;My fear is not only that this behaviour is being given permission and licence, but its conduct is being normalised to the point where people are no longer hiding their face.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Telling employees he was speaking to them &#8220;as an American, as a Jew, as a parent, as a grandparent&#8221;, Mr Schultz said it is hard to remain optimistic about the country&#8217;s future &#8220;in the midst of such a storm&#8221;, but he still is.</p>
<p>Starbucks and Mr Schultz have been outspoken on social issues.</p>
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