In this story, a theater manager named David Stewart informed theater goers to the Tyler Perry movie “Why did I Get married” to silence their cell phones and stay quiet during the movie.
An audience member named Juana Fuentes-Bowles who was then the director of Delaware’s Human Relations Division addressed the crowd claiming the manager’s remarks were racist.
The manager eventually apologized to the audience saying that he didn’t mean any offense but that didn’t sit too well with the Delaware’s Human Relations Division that launched an inquiry.
They went after Stewart, however the Delaware Supreme Court concluded that there was no case of racial discrimination basically saying the manager was doing his job in keeping the theater quiet.
This is just a case of a few people trying to make something out of a matter that was just basic protocol for a business. The fact it went so far up to the state Supreme Court is more embarrassing than anything else. Sure people get their signals mixed up but could this incident have been handled with more cool by Fuentes-Bowles who stood up in the audience and called the manager’s actions racist.
He is racist but that doesn’t excuse the fact that the movie goers don’t need to disrupt other people’s good time with distracting cell phone noise and talking. When I go to the movies I go to enjoy the movie. I pay my money and I expect that people will abide by the rules.