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To: GalvestonGal.com
What I need from the rest of you guys is what is being posted: your comments, views, what another town did, etc.

If you're into this enough to do some serious research, buy some access to the stacks at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and read up. Like I said earlier, the City of Atlanta (a fairly small area, actually, and only 1/8 or 1/10 of the metro area population) has been black-run for 20 years, and they ran Freaknik out of town. Just a Google search on "freaknik atlanta" gets you these gems:

Atlanta mayor gets recommendation for ending support for Freaknik
... by reports of sexual assaults and lewd behavior during Freaknik last month, the committee
said Atlanta should no longer sponsor concerts and other events as it ...
www.onlineathens.com/1998/051698/0516.a2freak.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

Freaknik too lewd, crude for Atlanta?
... ATLANTA - The party may be over for Freaknik, Atlanta's annual spring bash for
black college students. Prompted by TV footage of gangs of men groping women ...
www.onlineathens.com/1998/051498/0514.a2freaknik.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
[ More results from www.onlineathens.com ]

Atlanta braces for Freaknik '98 with a new plan - 1998-03-16 - ...
... to industry'. As part of the effort to mitigate the effects of Freaknik, the Atlanta
Convention & Visitors Bureau, hotel directors and the sales force at the ...
atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1998/03/16/story6.html - 51k - Cached - Similar pages

A quieter Freaknik? Signs point to a subdued event - 1999-03-01 - ...
... Freaknik is dying'. "The trends are showing Freaknik is dying in Atlanta," Hawthorne
said. "We need to drive a stake through its heart. Last year, our ...
www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/1999/03/01/story7.html - 51k - Cached - Similar pages

Plenty more where those came from.

70 posted on 04/22/2002 3:53:52 PM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster
That's the ticket. I had done a quick search on Tallahasse and Savannah as mentioned above, but not through their paper's archives. Your directions are very helpful.

Another point to be made here is that the Galveston Daily News wimps out - to the point of being pro Beach Party. They mitigate statements like: Gunfire errupts!, with "otherwise uneventful".

Uneventful trash pickup (huge$$$$), 23 stolen cars, 75 arrests, 1/10 of the season's tourist dollars NOT being spent on the island. Yeah, it's uneventful - as in a hostage sitting in their cell.

72 posted on 04/22/2002 5:26:27 PM PDT by GalvestonGal.com
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