Saturday, March 3, 2018

March 3

On this day, in 2012, William C. Forsyth, a junior at Yale University, took his girlfriend, Rebecca Turnbull, to the Bow Tie Cinema for a midnight, sing-along showing of her favorite movie - High School Musical. When the film began, Forsyth and Turnbull were crushed to discover they'd misunderstood the Fandango listing, and the film being screened was Spike Lee's Skool Daze. Even more horrifying: they were the only white people in the theater. Feeling unsafe, the couple got up to leave, demanding a refund. When they were refused a refund by the cinema's manager, Turnbull became angry, and threatened to call her father, a prominent New Canaan attorney. Forsyth was heard to say, "Don't waste your breath, babe. Forger the money. It doesn't matter." Turnbull then uttered the phrase that went on to become a rallying cry for caucasians everywhere "The money matters. WE MATTER." 

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