What a load of baloney. 
I'm just going to assume Mr. Kerasotes was just covering his butt and didn't just want to admit that he never wanted to show the movie to begin with.
I would break out the "You make Kaze a sad chao" pic, but that would be unneccesary. :p
Who cares? That guy has every right to not show a movie, there's no law saying he HAS to show anything in his theater. If he wanted to, he could show nothing but advertisements in the theater, he has every right to refuse to screen a movie.
To my knowledge, the movie has nothing to do with gangs. It's about stepping, which is doing a routine of stomping, clapping, and other movements.
The movie the violence did occur in, Black Christmas, was a freaking horror movie, not a gang movie.
The violence was the gangsters' fault, not the movie's fault.
EDIT: He changed his mind.
www.wtopnews.com/?nid=114&sid=1030200
Well, if it's any consolodation, I have a Kerasotes aroudn here and it's a quality movie theatre.
On topic? I say we take the newly-found free space and play Clint Eastwood movies.
Hell, tkae the whole theatrea nd play eastwood movies.
Who cares?
Well now, how would you feel if they're was a movie with a positive view on Kitsunes and people refuse to show it because they thought it might start pack riots.
I think SX was more making the point that privately owned businesses are pretty much free to present the wares they wish.
You just have to laugh when his theater is boycotted and he winds up working at McDonalds.
~Tobe
Well, he decided to show the movie anyway, and it's not like "Stomp The Yard" is an A picture anyway-- It's a January movie, which pretty much means it's filler.
The interview there amuses me highly...
"I was fearful ("Stomp the Yard"
could become the occasion for more gang violence, because I felt certain it would draw that audience,"
Read: Only black youths can belong to gangs.
"We don't think this is going to attract young black males who are part of a gang," said Ken Page, head of Springfield's NAACP. "It would be good if it did, this is a positive movie, the message is you can go to school."
Read: Black kids don't go to school. A movie about a black fraternity would say it's ok to go to school!
People digging holes with their words is like a beautiful train wreck of poetry.
Kids in gangs generally don't go to school, and the guy was saying it would be good if kids in gangs saw the movie because it would cause them to have magic soliloquy and decide to turn their lives around.
A ridiculous statement, but not a racist one.
