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A Georgia beach aims to disrupt Black students' spring bash after big crowds brought chaos in 2023
AP ^ | Apr 18, 2024 | RUSS BYNUM

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: blackchaos; blacks; orangecrush; racism
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To: Blueflag

Beach people not liking big crowds. year round parking fees, lots of signs warning of tow away zones. very few restaurants and they are all $$-$$$ expensive. beautiful beach but not real tourist friendly. and yes 90% of the residents are white and you can tell. the place is clean and quiet.


41 posted on 04/18/2024 5:47:40 AM PDT by Ikeon (My only issues with stupid people are, they encouraged to talk and post stupid opinions.. )
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To: Jay1

Rehoboth Beach would be an excellent freak week location!

Make Rehoboth Beach Freak Again!


42 posted on 04/18/2024 5:50:05 AM PDT by arazitjh (Like Bannon says: See What You See)
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To: Thomas Jerome

Years ago, a black spring break event was held on Galveston Island. The Walmart store shut down and locked down their hurricane shutters over the entry doors.


43 posted on 04/18/2024 5:51:14 AM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Same with Freaknik in Atlanta in the 1980-90’s. City leaders increased police protection until it was stopped. “We cannot support events that bring lewd activities, sexual assaults, violence against women and public safety concerns—firetrucks not being able to reach victims, and ambulances not being able to reach hospitals in a timely manner,” said committee chairman George Hawthorne, Atlanta Committee for Black College Spring Break


44 posted on 04/18/2024 6:02:19 AM PDT by Stonewall1
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If our ancestors could have seen into the future concerning this race they’d done as Lincoln wished (sent them back to Africa) or fought with the Confederacy.


45 posted on 04/18/2024 6:11:17 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

While most of these kids are certainly decent, there is a significant number who cause problems. In the past there have been incidents of violence, property destruction and massive issues with garbage left on the beach at Tybee.


46 posted on 04/18/2024 6:13:48 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

So they don’t like hoards of black people because they act like, well, black people?


47 posted on 04/18/2024 6:14:06 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: NorthMountain

“They believe Black folks to be criminals.”

There is massive evidence to support that belief. I saw the same dynamic, first hand, in Virginia Beach in the late 1980s.


It’s not just a coastal issue. Grew up in a small town near East St Louis. Every August for 70 years at least we held a Homecoming in the park. Parades, Drum and Bugle Corps, rides and cook outs. Highlight of the summer. About 10 years ago, bus loads of “teens” began arriving from East STL and the usual mayhem would ensue. Got so bad after a few years that the town fathers had to cancel Homecoming to protect our citiens and property...residents are still upset.
As my Father used to say, “A civilization I’m not familiar with”..


48 posted on 04/18/2024 6:22:33 AM PDT by AFret. (.)
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To: AFret.

That’s funny...and the perfect solution.


49 posted on 04/18/2024 6:36:16 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

There’s a nasty little curve in the road near the north end to the entrance of Tybee that’s a trap for anyone driving drunk. It caught me off guard, sober. I wonder how many head ons happen with any big party crowd there...


50 posted on 04/18/2024 7:01:53 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Biden should go plant a chair


51 posted on 04/18/2024 7:02:00 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Its Freaknik at the beach. They used to make Atlanta a nightmare for a week until finally the Black Mayor couldn’t take it anymore and shut it down. You have to see it to understand how bad it is.


52 posted on 04/18/2024 7:11:30 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

One’s racism is so easy to spot nowadays. If a specific race is capitalized — the writer is a racist.

That needs to be pointed out to the face of the racist.


53 posted on 04/18/2024 7:37:34 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: bobbo666

Why don’t these “black” students go to some coast in Africa. That way they would accomplish 2 things: spring break at the beach and a visit to their “homelands”.


54 posted on 04/18/2024 7:43:18 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

HEAVY DRINKING-—URINATION IN YARDS.

YOU ONLY RENT BEER-—


55 posted on 04/18/2024 8:09:41 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: JesusIsLord
What comes to mind is a gated HOA community, which can allow or refuse anyone wanting to enter their community based on HOA rules. Shouldn't a town have the same authority?

HOAs are private organizations of private properties. They have no legal basis as a government. A city, on the other hand, is public property as an entity, and is legally a government.
56 posted on 04/18/2024 8:11:21 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: arazitjh

How about Rehobeth Beach in Delaware .. That was get someones attention...


57 posted on 04/18/2024 8:34:30 AM PDT by Jay1 (The new Nazi Democrats party of the LBGTQ is winning again.)
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To: Jay1

the fags own RB


58 posted on 04/18/2024 8:42:06 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: yldstrk

“Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.”

~~~ John Derbyshire


59 posted on 04/18/2024 9:53:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
“They believe Black folks to be criminals.”

I'll second that. It's true. There are exceptions, obviously, but in a statstical mannner, it is true. If we could somehow remove all feral blacks from this nation, our crime rate would be among the lowest on the planet.

60 posted on 04/18/2024 10:15:11 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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