Well, years ago, was in a movie theater in Chicago.
The audience was mostly black.. It was a mixed group but definitely over half black.
The blacks in the audience never shut up. At funny points in the movie, the laughter was so stereotypically exaggerated as to be a joke in and of itself. The constant chatter and talk back and forth made it an ordeal to try to hear the movie sound track.
I will be called a racist for this, but, based on that and other experiences, I have learned, from experiences not from prejudice, that too many blacks together changes the group dynamic. And the result in behavior which would not be expected elsewhere among polite society.
The first, and only, time I saw a movie at the old Union Station theaters in DC (late 1980s) the manager (who happened to be Black) came into the theater before the coming attractions and in a VERY military style command voice informed the audience that people had paid to watch and enjoy a movie and that disruptive behavior during the show would not be tolerated and would result in removal.
I’m sure that he did that based on experience.
Now I don’t buy that these women were drunk. It seems to me that there was a simple clash of cultures. Which happens, more often than not regardless of anything related to race.
Question is, in the event of such conflict, which culture has it’s sensibilities shown deference, which culture shows deference and what the rules and mechanisms are for how that gets determined.
It’s best to have well defined, explicitly stated, policies in effect upfront.
Your experience reminded me of seeing a movie when I was in Nairobi many years ago. It was a B movie filled with car chases and explosions. We were the only two white faces in the theater. The conversation was so loud you couldn't hear the movie (not that it mattered much) and it only stopped during the short time a car chase or explosion was happening. It was a big social event.....in Kenya. Go figure.
One of Derbyshire’s rules for white people is avoid areas where groups of black people are known to congregate.
Liquor stores, for instance.
A sub-rule of the above rule is that if you notice blacks beginning to congregate in a certain area, leave immediately.
The lobby of a movie theater, for instance.
None of the above is motivated by hatred or ignorance, only self preservation.