[LK44-40]

This college-town, folky festival has been invaded by motorcycle gangs (toward bottom of article).

No need to let nearby Duke and Durham grab ~all~ the good publicity!

[gr8eman]

Well...they did need to liven up the place.

[sgtbono2002]

******Many of the motorcyclists are black, and some suggested that the uneasiness is over thousands of mostly younger blacks strolling the streets.

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So you blame it on motorcyclists. Well lets place the blame where it really belongs.

[beyond the sea]

Chapel Hill's annual street festival celebrating arts, crafts and entertainment

Man, such anger!

Someone must have been overly upset over the price of that Monet print ....... or was it Seurat?

[TYVets]

Violence in previous years prompted police to blanket Sunday's event

Perhaps the local police should have used a wet blankie.

[bondjamesbond]

I have noticed more urban, mostly black, motorcycle rowdies in recent years. They mostly ride crotch rockets and drive really crazy, in my experience.

I was set upon by about twenty on the Interstate going North out of Philadelphia, once. They rode all around the car, darting in and out and being morons. No weapons were in evidence, so I just kept it even and steady and ignored them as they did more and more provacative things to make me swerve or hit the brakes. At the end of the day, I was quite confident that mass would win out in any Cager vs. Biker collisions.

Of course, if they had been flashing guns, it would have been a whole different problem altogether. Fortunately, guns are illegal in Philadelphia, so that could never, never happen.

[PeteB570]

Ping

[TaxRelief]

Thousands of Scottish decendents gather for a festival at Loch Norman Highland games: Police presence? 2 officers.

Thousands gather for the Chapel Hill Apple Chill festival at the center of the "peace movement": Police presence? 235 officers.

[NCSteve]

I guess the elites in the PRCH don't like it much when their race-baiting comes home to them.

[JWinNC]

I took the wife and kids to the “chill” about 4-5 years ago. I should have known better. We spent about 15 minutes at this little, leftist love-fest.

A leftist orgy on one end of the street and gangs at the other. We could not get out of there fast enough.

JW

[muawiyah]

The article at http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/432162.html suggests strongly that the motorcycle groups come from all over the region, and that some, not all, just some, are "black".

One of the primary sponsors (a fellow who heads up an African-American group) said some people seem to be terribly intimidated by the presence of AAs on motorcycles.

The information being provided in the thread is a bit askew from the information inthe news article.

Should I dismiss the news article as just more communist propaganda designed to crush American spirit, or is it pretty factual?