“Some patrons later said Stewart’s tone “was offensive and condescending, as if he were speaking to children.” And because the crowd, which had been well-behaved to that point, was “90 to 95 percent” black, some felt it was racist because it implied that blacks did not know how to behave in a movie theater.
Justices Randy J. Holland, Carolyn Berger and Jack B. Jacobs ruled the non-racial explanations for the announcement were reasonable and pointed to uncontested evidence that a week earlier Stewart had made the same announcement at a showing of the movie “Halloween” to a largely teenage audience.”
So, I guess the math here states that a theater full of adult black folks seeing a “black movie” (in this case, a Tyler Perry movie) is equivalent to a theater full of teenagers seeing a Halloween flick. Just doing the math, based on the statements
The theater was ordered by...
Justices Randy J. Holland, Carolyn Berger and Jack B. Jacobs ruled the non-racial explanations for the announcement were reasonable and pointed to uncontested evidence that a week earlier Stewart had made the same announcement at a showing of the movie “Halloween” to a largely teenage audience.”
So, I guess the math here states that a theater full of adult black folks seeing a “black movie” (in this case, a Tyler Perry movie) is equivalent to a theater full of teenagers seeing a Halloween flick. Just doing the math, based on the statements
The theater was ordered by...
- 3/2/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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