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Author Topic: Do you need a black friend? Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 10-24-2007 04:47 PM                     I have been posting in these forums for a few years now, and I am curious how many black people post here? Having been in the operations end of the industry since 1994, I am often the only or one of a few black people in a room. This is simply to cure my own curiosity! Plus, I have a standing offer out for anyone that needs a 'black friend' Colbert Report Style!  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 10-24-2007 07:18 PM                     Once a nice black couple came in the theatre and I told them their movie was showing, "In auditorium 3, black and to the left". My feet are size 13 but I had no problem at all fitting one of them in my mouth. They never said anything, just went on their nice way.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 10-24-2007 08:44 PM                        I think black people account for less than 14% of the US population so it's not odd that you'd find yourself in such situations. I would like a black friend otherwise people will think I am a racist evil bastard.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-24-2007 09:54 PM                     Geez Shane and we were practically neighbors a decade ago when you were working Batavia... I lived less than a mile from that theater! I have several African American friends one of whom is a retired ball player... but he thinks and acts and even says he is a White man so how does that figure? I never thought I'd get to ask another Black man this question.... Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-24-2007 10:02 PM                        I had an employee once who had a black boyfriend who was a college student in Bozeman. One weekend he was here visiting my employee, and Saturday afternoon while she was working, he came into my day job and said, "Let's go drive around." So we did. As we were touring the area, I had the idea to go to Miles City (45 min. away) just for a change of scene. On the highway, he said "So what's the black population of Miles City?" I think he had the idea that SOMEWHERE in Montana there must be a lot of black people and he just hadn't found that spot yet! Alas, no luck in Miles either...there are probably less than half-a-dozen black people in that town!  |  IP: Logged Charles Caron Expert Film Handler Posts: 188 From: Billings MT, USA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 10-24-2007 10:30 PM                     Mike: I'd give good odds that they've probably been there since the turn of the century and are descendants of the buffalo soldiers.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 10-24-2007 10:36 PM                     Right now I mostly work with black people. But back up in the suburbs of Seattle I worked with a total of probably less than 10 and that's over a span of approx 8 or 9 years.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-25-2007 08:59 AM                     It really does depend on the region. In the DC area, Blacks are problably going to be the predominate theatre worker and be reasonably well represented in management positions too. This has been true for as long as I can recall in the DC area. Steve  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-25-2007 04:00 PM                     Steve: Is there still a Local 224A? DC had a black operators local. The IA wanted 224 to merge with them but 224A would have no part of it. I think they felt their seniority would be trumped.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-25-2007 04:50 PM                       Shane, you're funny! And, I've always considered you a friend. (Btw, where in Batavia were you? I installed the Goodrich Theatre there many moons ago...)  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 10-25-2007 05:02 PM                     Shane-- WHAT black person. Everyone's the same to me.... be they pink, green, black, white, purple or what-not. Can 'I' be your friend?  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 10-25-2007 05:24 PM                        Aloha, Shane! If you'd like, I can also be a friend to you as well.  |  IP: Logged Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 10-25-2007 09:26 PM                     For the uninitiated...Stephen Colbert and his black friend. Now you to can have your own black friend!  |  IP: Logged Brad Allen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 688 From: Evansville, IN, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 10-25-2007 11:01 PM                     Sure Shane, next time your up this way we'll hang out.  |  IP: Logged Shane Cooper Expert Film Handler Posts: 232 From: Little Rock, Arkansas Registered: Jun 2004 posted 10-25-2007 11:05 PM                     Hey Brad I am from Indianapolis so I pass through Southern Indiana on my way home from time to time. I may have to stop by.  |  IP: Logged

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