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catrose

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4. For contrast, my friends and I, all white, asked to buy balcony tickets to se Butch Cassidy

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Fri Jun 19, 2026, 05:32 PM

9 hrs ago

So late 60s. We said because it was cheaper but we were making a statement. We were refused and bought tickets for the ground floor.

Do I need say that the balcony was for people of color?

It was opening night and the movie had just started when the manager approached us and said we could sit in the balcony if we wanted. We did. Sitting in the disgusting, dirty, ripped up chairs was even more of a lesson about race in America.

But the manager got sell five more tickets to a sold out show.

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Stolen Girls of the Lee County Stockade- 1963 in Georgia [View all] irisblue 13 hrs ago OP

Thanks for posting! BaronChocula 13 hrs ago #1

Just when I think I know a bit about racism & misogyny & segregation in the US irisblue 13 hrs ago #2

No one could possibly know it all BaronChocula 12 hrs ago #3

For contrast, my friends and I, all white, asked to buy balcony tickets to se Butch Cassidy catrose 9 hrs ago #4