A movie about dancing colored people will surely bring out the “gangs”. Holy shit:
Oh of course not, it has NOTHING to do with race. No, you just don't want to attract "that audience". Besides, everyone knows anything young and black = gang violence.Fearful of attracting more gang violence to its movie theaters, Springfield's Kerasotes Theatres will not open "Stomp the Yard," a film about black college students in a dancing competition.
Kerasotes Theatres' company chairman and CEO Tony Kerasotes called the decision a safety consideration in the wake of a Christmas Day shooting at the chain's Parkway Pointe location.
"I chose to err on the side of caution and in the interest of safety and chose not to open the film in Springfield this week," Kerasotes said Wednesday. "I was fearful the movie could become the occasion for more gang violence, because I felt certain it would draw that audience."
Asked if the decision was a question of race, Kerasotes said: "You could phrase the question that way, but to me, it's a question of gangs. It's about gangs. It's not about race."
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I heard this this morning on the Channel 20 news and it made me sad. Sad that we haven't reached a better place than this in the year 2007. I mean, seriously, this is nothing but thinly veiled racism.
Springfieldians, remember, we're coming up on the 100th anniversary of the 1908 race riots. This kind of stuff just shows how little we've done to make positive change in this community.
Tony Kerasotes doesn't care about black people.
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