The fallout from the violence over the
memorial day weekend over "Urban Beach weekend" is finally coming to a head with cries from residents to ban while the
ACLU and liberals say this is about racism because Miami Beach doesn't like young black people.
Miami Herald:
The see-through strip club on wheels slowly cruises down Miami Beach’s Washington Avenue while two scantily-clad young ladies inside gyrate to music against a pole, rubbing bare backsides against Plexiglas walls. The fast action elicits hoots and hollers among a massive crowd spilling from the sidewalks onto the streets.
Young men in tank tops, baseball caps and baggy shorts hang out on Ocean Drive, hoisting bottles of beer while proclaiming Urban Beach Week — the annual festival that draws an estimated 250,000 people to South Beach over a single weekend — “da bomb’’.
But residents have a decidedly different view of the festivities that have flooded the streets around their homes like a tsunami of misbehaving humanity each year since the first, unexpected wave struck in 2001.
“It was horrible to even walk down the street,’’ Mary Thingelstad, 57, complained to city leaders of the scene around her South Beach neighborhood over the Memorial Day weekend. “The people, how they dressed and behaved, was disgraceful. I was embarrassed.’’
Because the overwhelming majority of these rowdy revelers are young African Americans, race is an uncomfortable - if unspoken - undercurrent of the conversation.
The rest, however, is rote.
Florida’s beach towns long have been a magnet for college-aged visitors intent on partying, and prone to overdoing it.
Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Panama City all have greeted hordes of rowdy revelers over the years — and then struggled to reign them in when they overstayed their welcome.
Now, it’s Miami Beach’s turn.
Lets cut the bullshit. This is an undesirable crowd that is coming down for Urban Beach Weekend. In the black community, we call this the nigga culture which is now so dominate it blights all black people as a stereotype. It doesn't belong in Miami Beach, we don't need it in South Florida and it must be stamped out from happening again. Just like Atlanta got rid of freaknik, this 2011 version needs to go.