I bookmarked that article to read on Twitter; I should finally get to it!
I have long gone to concerts where I was one of the few non-white people in the audience--that's what I got for being super-into boy bands, and later singer-songwriters and such. I can count on one hand the number of times when I found myself noticing (and feeling oddly relieved) that I I wasn't the only black person in an audience: both times when I saw Mariah Carey live, when Rihanna did a concert at my college, and when Maroon 5 was at my college. That last one was really interesting to me--it was a general admission show, and I had waited in line for as long as I could, and once I got to my seat in the third row, I looked around and was amused (and surprised) to see that about 80% of the first five rows were filled with black and Latina women!
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Date: 2013-01-21 03:00 am (UTC)I have long gone to concerts where I was one of the few non-white people in the audience--that's what I got for being super-into boy bands, and later singer-songwriters and such. I can count on one hand the number of times when I found myself noticing (and feeling oddly relieved) that I I wasn't the only black person in an audience: both times when I saw Mariah Carey live, when Rihanna did a concert at my college, and when Maroon 5 was at my college. That last one was really interesting to me--it was a general admission show, and I had waited in line for as long as I could, and once I got to my seat in the third row, I looked around and was amused (and surprised) to see that about 80% of the first five rows were filled with black and Latina women!