http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh9CMn9Ooyd9bXDOPP I don't like confined spaces, so I would of left.
Fuck yeah I'd have stayed. I aint giving up 25+ bucks and not seeing a movie. Besides, either those thugs were there to see a movie, or they were there to kick ass. Looked like they were there for the flick. Either way, nobody gyps me outta my popcorns! besides, I fit in with those mugs rather well.
It all depends on the circumstances of course. What part of town the theater is in, what movie you're seeing, who you're with, etc. A decent theater, watching an action movie with my friends? Oh yeah, I would have sat right now. Crappy neighborhood, or with a lady friend? Probably not. I don't go to crowded movie theaters no matter who's sitting in the seats.
Re-do the experiment with a theater full of big black guys. What do you think the outcome would have been?
Now THAT would result in me walking out immediately. And the reason? When I was in my early 20s I would go to two local ghetto theaters - Showcase Cincinnati (Norwood) and Super Saver/Gold Circle Cinemas (Ridge and Highland). I would always be the only white person in the place, and didn't care because I'm not a racist. But what I did object to, and the reason I would walk out now, is that in every single case it was the loudest, rowdiest, rudest theater crowd I have ever seen. Talking back to and interacting with the on-screen dialog, throwing popcorn, fighting, fucking, you name it. It's a fucked up cultural thing, and one that I'm not going to risk wasting my 7 bucks to sit through ever again. Prejudiced? You betcha. Watching White Men Can't Jump there was particularly difficult...
Same thing happened to me in a theater in DC; you couldn't even hear the movie. In the early eighties I went to a Rush concert with some friends in St. Louis. We went in a fast food seafood restaurant near the theater. I think it was called Aurthur Treachers. Anyway, as soon as we walked in everyone stopped talking and just stared at us. At the counter the staff pretended they didn't see us so we left. On our way out people started throwing hush puppies at us. Can you imagine if that would have been the other way around?
At least they let her sit down and they didn't throw hush puppies at her. I wasn't the bus driver in the 60s, I was a kid in the 80's that wasn't afraid of any part of town because I didn't care what shade of color your skin was.
I wasn't talking about Rosa Parks specifically. Just saying that once upon a time in this country, they were "getting hush puppies thrown at them" as they were shunned out of establishments.
Not to mention the fire hoses, dogs and lynches. It's cool though, hush puppies are an affront to humanity.
