Shake your head at me, but some black kids...

behave as a fucking numbskull anytime anyday, not my business, but when your aggressiveness is penetrating my mind's business, you need to check yourself.

 

Next you’ll be saying we’re too loud and abrasive in the movie theatre - sheesh


Hotwater

 

Actually in Cleveland once, at a movie theater downtown, there was a huge fat fucking black guy talking on his phone in the theater during the movie as loud as possible, laughing as loud as possible. Except everyone in the majorly black theater told him to shut the fuck up and get out, and he was kicked out.

 

Nevertheless, I’m sure you stood up and told him personally to shut the fuck up

Hotwater

 

I saw Freddy vs Jason with a theater full of black people, they were almost inspiringly loud, it was easily the loudest theater I have ever seen a movie in. At times it was straight up like Scary Movie, it was pretty hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2db-In7Nso&feature=related"]YouTube - Scary Movie 1 - Brenda Causes Trouble In The Movies

 

:rofl:

All I'd really like to add to this thread is that I think everyone is racist, on some level. Being racist doesn't necessarily mean you dislike people of certain races. It can just mean that you make generalizations and/or assumptions about someone based on their race. For example, when most people see a young black dude, they usually assume he mainly listens to rap music and smokes weed. When most people see an old white redneck dude, they usually assume he doesn't like gay people or is an alcoholic. We see a young white guy who wears Abercrombie and Fitch, we assume they listen to Nickelback or something lame like that. lol This, imo, is a form of racism. We all do it, in one way or another, even if we don't realize it.

 

^ Oh gee........... Forgot about that scene

 

I definitely agree. When we first meet someone, we have to make assumptions and generalizations for memory purposes. As long as you stay aware of this, you should be able to recognize that these are just assumptions and an individual is not defined by their skin color or what clothes they wear.

 

There's truth here... I look at it less as racism and more as general prejudice- often based on some past experience. It'll always be part of human nature. Trying to enforce political correctness can only suppress this but it won't get rid of it. If anything it'll magnify it. Chances are that the folks acting like asses in the library were doing ti to get a rise out of someone and PH seems to have rewarded the effort.

 

Knowledge

 

Indeed. You can't get rid of it, and you can barely suppress it. We're all ignorant in this way, as we all make certain assumptions about people before we know them, but as long as we're aware of our ignorance, we can learn, more and more, that you never know a person until you actually take the time to know them. Sometimes they prove your assumptions to be accurate, but even then, you realize that there is much more to a person than those things that stand out and seem to be characteristic of their race/upbringing.

 

This is true. It can be hard to avoid, as Top Notch said, generalizations, even in your own head.

Two weeks ago I was waiting for a bus, there was no one else around me as I was waiting about 25 feet away from the actual stop and I saw this chubby black guy, "blinged" out, walking right towards me, he was about 25 feet away in the other direction. My first thought was, "this guys going to ask me if I want any weed". Sure enough, I was right. The other side of this generalization is, did he ask me because he thought I look like someone who smokes weed? Perhaps we were both generalizing each other.

There'll always be people who don't fit into generalizations, there'll always be people who do. It's best to assess people after getting to know them. However in a public setting we don't always get to know people so we're more inclined to assess or judge them based on their behaviour. It's important to remember that no one is any one thing though. I don't think all generalizations are meant maliciously, their more often just a knee jerk reaction to one's behaviour or demeanor.

 

I told this story before but I think it needs to be told again.

I was in a movie theatre in Boston at the premiere of Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

There was a good mix of blacks and whites and the only person talking to the screen and generally interrupting the movie was horror fiction writer Stephen King


Hotwater

 

haha He was actually in the theater? That's awesome

 

Yea, he must have gone to the candy concessions at least 3 times :2thumbsup:

Hotwater

 

He probably had the munchies. I'm sure he still smokes weed. lol

 

What an ass!

A lot of horror movies are okay to be a little loud at, but I don't see it working too well with Searching for Bobby Fischer haha.

 

The movie theatre was located near Boston University so the students (no doubt mostly fans of king) took the interruptions in stride



Hotwater

 

Except it isn't as innocent as that.

In my area, the people that get discriminated against frequently are First Nations people. And sure, you can statistically show that as a group they have less education, less income, more domestic problems, more alcohol abuse problems, whatever.

But if that modifies your expectations, well, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in how people act around you.

 

That is true, most teenagers are just "rambunctious" , but then you have your annoying asshole kids who just don't give a fuck about anyone and do shit just for the fuck of it and to be assholes. I personally blame this mostly, not completely, but mostly on the parents. Where the fuck are the parents while their kids are doing all this fucked up shit?