Posted on 04/18/2024 3:57:51 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia’s largest public beach will be greeted by dozens of extra police officers and barricades closing off neighborhood streets. While the beach will remain open, officials are blocking access to nearby parking.
Tybee Island east of Savannah has grappled with the April beach party known as Orange Crush since students at Savannah State University, a historically Black school, started it more than 30 years ago. Residents regularly groused about loud music, trash littering the sand and revelers urinating in yards.
Those complaints boiled over into fear and outrage a year ago when record crowds estimated at more than 100,000 people overwhelmed the 3-mile (4.8 kilometer) island. That left a small police force scrambling to handle a flood of emergency calls reporting gunfire, drug overdoses, traffic jams and fist fights.......
“Our weekends are packed with people all season, but when Orange Crush comes they shut down the parking, bring extra police and act like they have to take charge,” said Julia Pearce, one of the island’s few Black residents and leader of a group called the Tybee MLK Human Rights Organization. She added: “They believe Black folks to be criminals.”
During the week, workers placed metal barricades to block off parking meters and residential streets along the main road parallel to the beach. Two large parking lots near a popular pier are being closed. And Tybee Island’s roughly two dozen police officers will be augmented by about 100 sheriff’s deputies, Georgia state troopers and other officers.
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There is massive evidence to support that belief. I saw the same dynamic, first hand, in Virginia Beach in the late 1980s.
The city is intentionally shutting down parking areas against an expected raucous, nuisance crowd with an established pattern of criminal behavior. Race has nothing to do with it. I would expect the police to do they same if any group had shown a pattern of like behavior over the past 30 years, be they white bikers, a boy scout jamboree or Vietnamese revelers celebrating Tet.
Sounds like crime.
“They believe Black folks to be criminals”
Certainly not all, but FBI statistics show.....
Tybee island is not the place to support big crowds.
Beautiful primitive beach, and lots of beachfront homes owned by people who DON’T want big unruly crowds, regardless of color or character.
I remember one radio show host who loved Bike Week. He went to them all and would broadcast from them. Except the Bl*ck Bike week in Myrtle Beach. People were having sex in public, vandalizing, littering and using people’s front yards as toilets. There was so much crime and violence he never went to another BB week.
The difference being that at a normal college Spring Break, it is college kids. At one of these, most are not in college. A lot of the participants are gang members. One of my fraternity brothers (black) was shot and paralyzed at one of these things.
They conveniently left out the shooting part
When black students gather en masse, there is indeed a huge amount of criminal behavior and crime. So "they" (who believe such people are criminals) are correct in their assumption.
Wife and I love Tybee. It used to be a hidden gem, lovely beach, great little B&Bs and Savannah just a few miles away for shopping and fine dining.
This is what Tybee island is trying to avoid right here.
Anytime you get a bunch of blacks together partying its a distinct possiblity this will happen.
“Jacksonville Beach police identify 21-year-old killed in St. Patrick’s Day gun violence
3 unrelated shootings Sunday prompt lockdown of busy downtown bar district
The deadly shooting was one of three reported within 40 minutes that disrupted a busy St. Patrick’s Day holiday in Jacksonville Beach on Sunday that coincided with Spring Break”
Hmmm...all of a sudden the “teens” are “black”. Go figure.
Yup. It’s not color. It’s culture.
Not that AP cares.
This criminal behavior is extremely damaging to the black community all across America.
BTW, you can make it a crime (legally) to discriminate against people because of their race but that is not an effective way to change the way people "think." You cannot remove discrimination via legislation.
To remove discrimination (i.e., to change how people "think" about your race), you have to prove that you can be trusted to be mature, conscientious, dependable, and civilized.
I don’t know why blacks in groups behave so awfully, but it is inevitable.
Just a typical weekend for some parts of society.
Booby-trap the beach with landmines and bear traps. Should make it interesting.
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