Some people are not into history, black or white. That’s cool. So some people might not be aware of what an Atlanta newspaper columnist said is an important part of black history: The Right to Riot.
Large gatherings of black people are “extensions of the civil rights movement.” And it is not fair that so many towns, like Miami Beach, “despise the ground we walk on,” said Jineea Butler of Atlanta Word Daily. 883
Remember Freaknik in Atlanta, the Greekfest in Philadelphia, Black Family Reunion in Daytona Beach, Jones Beach in New York and Virginia Beach Labor Day Weekend? Most of these events have been canceled because the local residents in each town voted against hosting our events.
Most of these large gatherings of black people were cancelled or discouraged after repeated and long term violence, property damage, lawlessness and trash. Always mountains of trash.
Many of which exist on video.
Jineea does not care for how she is treated at these black events. She says “respect is a two-way street.” And lack of respect towards black people in Miami Beach is why the town is so chaotic on Memorial Day. Or was before police took over.
A black St. Louis talk show host has seen the same problem: Black mob violence at the Del Mar Loop, the upscale entertainment district, is a regular feature of life there. Why: The clubs have not reached out to black people.
So black people get angry and rampage, riot, attack cops -- by now you know the drill.
Jineea has a solution, but there is one small catch:884
We need to sue the city of Miami for violating our civil rights this weekend, but the problem, my friends, is our behavior detracts from making our case. We view shootings and killings as a daily occurrence back home, but people from Miami frown on such occurrences.
She has a point about that frowning thing.
Jineea may express some curious ambivalence about the racial lawlessness at Miami Beach, but the ACLU does not. To them, people who do not care for the moveable race riot known as Black Beach Week are racist. Ditto for Black Biker Week in Myrtle Beach.
Prior to Black Beach Week, the group sends out emails to reporters and runs radio commercials on local black stations to remind people if police violate their civil rights, they should report the misconduct to the ACLU website.
This is not just talk. At Black Biker Week up the road in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the crowds became so violent and abusive from 2000 to 2005 that businesses boarded up for the week. The high crime and hyper-violence associated with the event led city officials to enact a series of laws effectively banning motorcycle rallies in their city. The NAACP cried racial discrimination and sued to reverse the law. It won. The businesses that closed during Black Biker Week were found to be guilty of racial discrimination and were forced to remain open.885
Today, the NAACP has a hotline where people can phone in complaints of discrimination against anyone who has a problem with Black Bike Week or its participants. No news whether the NAACP has a hotline for the victims of shootings and violence and mayhem in Myrtle Beach during the week.
Black Bike Week was kind of quiet, for a while anyway. Until 2014, when it erupted in violence again. Lots of people shot. Some dead.
We shall overcome, someday: The day when people stop noticing. The day when people stop thinking there is something wrong with this black mob violence.
Until that day arrives, the ACLU will be on the ramparts, defending whatever it is they defend. Just as they said in Miami Beach in 2013. According to the Herald:886
“We wish the city of Miami Beach would welcome visitors to Urban Beach Week, who happen to be black, the same way it welcomes visitors to every other big event, like Art Basel or the boat show,” ACLU Miami president Jeff Borg wrote in an email. “Instead, city leaders have been working hard to suppress this one group.”
Now that you are aware of the new Civil Right for black people to have large and violent gatherings, perhaps you might also be interested in a gentleman by the name of Frederick Douglass, out of Rochester, New York.