{"id":4253,"date":"2011-03-07T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4253"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:19:21","slug":"delaware-movie-theater-sued-for-quieting-black-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4253","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Movie Theater Sued For Quieting  Black Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a 2007 showing of <strong>Tyler Perry&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Why Did I Get Married&#8217;<\/em> in a Dover, Delaware movie theater, the manager of the cinema is alleged to have told a large group of patrons to &#8220;be quiet and behave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;condescending tone&#8221; was cited as racist because he addressed Black customers.<\/p>\n<p>Manager <strong>David Stewart<\/strong> was accused of speaking to audience members like children at a \u201cminority-themed\u201d movie.<\/p>\n<p>The Delaware Supreme Court overturned a decision by the state Human Relations Commission that Stewart&#8217;s comments were racist, but the Carmike 14 Theater had to pay nearly $80,000 for violating the Delaware Equal Accommodations Law.<\/p>\n<p>Each patron listed in the complaint was awarded $1,500 in damages. The theater was fined $5,000 and had to pay $20,000 in plaintiffs&#8217; attorneys&#8217; fees and costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a 2007 showing of Tyler Perry&#8217;s &#8216;Why Did I Get Married&#8217; in a Dover, Delaware movie theater, the manager of the cinema is alleged to have told a large group of patrons to &#8220;be quiet and behave.&#8221; The &#8220;condescending tone&#8221; was cited as racist because he addressed Black customers. Manager David Stewart was accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}