[DeFault User]

The story omits several pertinent facts. Here is an excerpt from a related article in the Charlotte Observer:

A city spokesman says 200 officers are on duty for Harley week, 400 during black Bikefest, but the reasons have nothing to do with the ethnicity of participants.

"It makes it sound like we've done all of this because of the race of the visitors, which is nothing but absurd," said city spokesman Mark Kruea. "The action that the city takes has to do with the traffic congestion and the number of people."

Kruea says Harley week, which drew about 250,000 earlier in May, is a 10-day festival spread over most of the 60-mile Grand Strand. Bikefest is a three-day event that draws more people and is concentrated in the 13 miles from Myrtle Beach to Atlantic Beach.

The other suit alleges that the Yachtsman Hotel in Myrtle Beach charges higher rates and toughens its rules for visitors in hotel rooms during the black biker festival.

"We vehemently deny the allegations, and we have implemented no policies and will not ever discriminate based on race, age, sex. ... We treat everyone equally," said Craig Young, an attorney for the hotel.

In a complaint to the state Human Affairs Commission, the NAACP also alleges that more than 28 Myrtle Beach area restaurants closed last Memorial Day weekend so they would not have to serve blacks.

Jean Cribb, who owns Chesapeake House, which is on the gridlocked Kings Highway, is angry her restaurant is part of the complaint. She said they were closed because traffic was so heavy her employees couldn't get to work.

"It is not a black and white thing at all with us," she said. "It makes me mad that it looks like we're totally being unfair to black bikers." The restaurant stayed open this weekend.

[DeFault User]

I should have posted a link to the entire article in the Charlotte Observer.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/5945902.htm

[milan]

The story omits several pertinent facts.

I found it on CNN, what do you expect?