Fillmore Slim Realized He Misjudged Whoopi Goldberg…
Fillmore Slim says he remained by the pay phone, as he watched Whoopi go back home. Assuming she was going to get “her man,” he stoodby, ready for a battle with the dude:
“She went back home and I thought she was going to get her man -I ain’t know who she was. Ya know, she was dressed militant…like she was in the army or something. … So I thought she was going get her man in the motel, [which] I was staying at on the bottom floor.
The phone booth was right there, so I was on my knee, looking at the phone booth with my pistol, because I didn’t know who she was going to get. [So I was] gon’ go outside and talk to the gentlemen.”
Fillmore was shocked when he saw Whoopi come back alone:
“She came back…but she had a rifle up under her coat and she was walking ‘round looking for me, looking for me.”
What happened when he ran into Whoopi the next day:
“So the next day I saw her at the supermarket where the actors go, up there on Holland [Ave.]. I said uh, ‘How you doing? You was gon’ shoot me, wasn’t you?’ She said ‘Yeah, I was pretty MAD at you!’”
I said, ‘But sista we both from the Bay Area, I’m from San Francisco too.’ …Ya know, we shined that off…we hugged each other and that was that. No malices.”
I guess Fillmore Slim learned that day- that not ALL women are “prostitutes” that he can just slap around without consequences and repercussions. Whoopi made that point very clear.
