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The Actual Cost of Cultural Marxism – How The Community of Myrtle Beach Is Hostage To The Politically Correct and Fear of NAACP
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By now you have probably seen the outline and research we have assembled around the Myrtle Beach Massacre andBlack Bike Week.
The
reason we have continued to follow the story as it unfolds is because
the event and consequences show a great example of how paralyzed a
community can become when it allows fear to drive political correctness.
In addition, how the
local government is responding is a case study in cultural fear and
fear of the racist labeling. In this specific case Myrtle Beach is also
afraid of the NAACP because they have a previous history of being sued
by them.
The local city government
is willing to pay vast sums of taxpayer money just to avoid confronting
the root of the weekend violence. The violence is ironically created
by, and enhanced by, their own avoidance policies. Subsequently the
entire community is subjected to violence because they are caught in a
catch-22 of political correctness.
To that end during a North
Myrtle Beach City Council Meeting held 5/27/14 the local city council
came prepared to fight the reality of the citizens angst with a litany
of PC statistics to support their position.
The city council quickly coordinated their defense within hours of the Memorial Day holiday ending. Literally within hours. At 2pm
the day after Memorial Day the local government was ready to defend
themselves with charts and statistics, as if they already knew what to
expect and were preparing in advance for the ire of the victims. Hmmmm?
The city council delivered their statistics to a packed house. The audience was full of
people who had just been subjected to a 3-day weekend of sheer terror
resulting in ten people being shot, and three people killed. The
testimony lasted over two hours.
However, the city officials were unsympathetic and had a full presentation ready showing a comparative analysis between “Black Bike Week” vs. the earlier in month “Harley Week“.
According to Myrtle Beach
city officials during Black Bike Week, held over Memorial Day
Weekend, there were 105 arrests, 44 traffic accidents, 18 motorcycle
accidents and 1,437 calls for service.
During Black Bike Week: 2014
During Harley Week: 2014
During the Black Bike
Week last year there were 70 arrests, 16 traffic accidents, 11
motorcycle accidents and 1,436 calls for service.
Calls for Service Comparison: Harley Week vs. Black Bike Week - 2013 [<-?]
In preparation for the
crowd, during Black Bike Week, North Myrtle Beach had about 110 state
troopers and police officers from other South Carolina jurisdictions
assisting the North Myrtle Beach Public Safety Department in managing
the traffic and crowd, according to the released information.
In addition the city contracted the use of one helicopter working primarily at night to help identify hot spots.
Additionally public safety personnel worked 12 hour shifts, with about 50 officers working from 6:00 am-6:00 pm. (4 hours overtime per shift x 3 days x 50 officers = 600 OT hours) Their numbers were increased beginning at 4:00 pm, resulting in about 90 officers working through each night. (source)
The obvious citizen question would have been: “if you anticipated a need for that much additional law enforcement, then obviously you knew things were not going to be safe. With that in mind, why in the heck would you allow the event to go on in the first place”?
Now if you look at what
the council is sharing, and if you conservatively anticipate $20/hr for
police and a 1.5 time overtime rate at $30/hr. The “additional” hours
on local police cost the city $18,000 in weekend overtime pay alone.
The additional payroll for
the 110 borrowed law enforcement is tougher to estimate, but a
conservative guess would look like: 110 x 3 days x 12 hours = 3,300
hours. 3,300 hours x $25.00/hr = $82,500 labor
Total approximated additional law enforcement labor cost would be around$100,500.00 ($82,500 + $18,000) for the weekend.
You would need to add
general expenses, gas, tolls, housing, meal allowance, mileage, etc to
the borrowed LEO labor cost to figure out the total LEO labor cost.
Again, an educated guess around $50k (@110 borrowed officers) for the weekend.
Rent helicopter and pilot @$1000.00/ hr: 3 nights x 10 hrs = $30,000 for the weekend.
Municipal workers, traffic equip., trash removal, maintenance and cleanup $150,000
Rough total of all above approx.: $330,500 [<-
Generally city
municipalities make .05¢ on every economic dollar spent. (3% local
share of taxation plus 2% anticipated income tax revenue from patron
dollars spent) According to the city managers office it’s a municipal
and industry standard figure for projections.
This means the “break even point” for revenue income / expenditures would need to be around $7,000,000 (seven million) in *positive economic impact over the three day weekend.
*Positive economic impact means over and above the normal economic activity which would be taking place without the event.
As we have continued to share, it’s an interesting case study in politically correct anxiety to follow.
And if you want to follow the sociology, and watch how it plays out, here are some links to reference and follow along:
The Sponsor site and promotional page of Black Bike Week – HERE
The Sponsor Facebook page of Black Bike Week – HERE
The PC correctly titled opposition Facebook page “End Bike Fest” – HERE
A local website that tracks “The Thug Life” activity outlines some of the issues – HERE– And presents the history of the events and the “characters”, some with astounding criminal backgrounds, as they are revealed.
The NAACP Vows To Enforce Black Bike Week Rights:
(VIA NAACP)
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will
again keep a close watch on the City of Myrtle Beach (S.C.) and local
businesses this holiday weekend as annual Black Bike Week festivities
get underway.
For the fourth consecutive
year the NAACP will conduct Operation Bike Week Justice to monitor
activities in the resort town during Black Bike Week, the annual
Memorial Day weekend gathering of African American motorcycle
enthusiasts. Throughout the weekend, NAACP teams will be monitoring
police activity and treatment of African American visitors, observing
the practices of local businesses and watching traffic patterns.
In recent years, the NAACP
and African Americans have filed and settled federal lawsuits against
the City of Myrtle Beach and areas businesses for unequal treatment of
Black Bike Week visitors compared to those who attend Harley Week,
traditionally held one week earlier and a predominately white event.
“Any form of racial discrimination against Black Bike Week visitors will not be tolerated,”
said NAACP Field Operations Chief Rev. Nelson B. Rivers, III, and a
native South Carolinian. “Closing businesses or refusing to provide
equal services to Black Bike Week visitors that are provided to visitors
at other times of the year, not only makes no economic sense, it is
against the law.”
Again this year, a
complaint hotline will be activated for individuals to report closed
restaurants, police misconduct or other unfair treatment. Black Bike
Week attendees can report incidents by calling or by visiting Sandy
Grove Baptist Church located at 1008 Carver Street [in Myrtle Beach] to
file a complaint in person. Calls in previous years listed complaints
against businesses for increased prices and noted police misconduct,
frivolous charges and large fines for minor offenses.
Some progress has been made the last two years. Two more undisclosed settlements with offending businesses were reached recently.
However, the NAACP remains concerned about the disproportionate number
of arrests and the quality of police training in response to such large
gatherings. Additionally, several establishments remain closed and
continue to engage in discriminatory practices despite being aware of
the lawsuits and Operation Bike Week Justice.
Moreover, last October the
NAACP, the Conway, S.C. Branch of the NAACP and a Maryland resident
were compelled to file a class action lawsuit against Friendly’s Ice
Cream Corporation, its local franchisee, Myrtle Beach Friends Boulevard
LLC, and the franchisee owners for discriminating against African
Americans by closing the inside of their Ocean Boulevard location during
every Black Bike Week from 2000 through 2005 and only offering inferior
services outside the restaurant.
“This degrading second
class treatment harkens back to an era when restaurant lunch counters
were reserved for whites only,” said NAACP Interim General Counsel
Angela Ciccolo. “African Americans were forced to eat substandard food,
not regular Friendly’s fare, outside the restaurant which was in plain
sight and in proper working order. Such practices send a clear message
to African Americans that they are separate and unequal.”
In 2006, the NAACP
successfully concluded every federal discrimination lawsuit filed in
Myrtle Beach that arose from complaints by African American tourists who
attended Black Bike Week festivities between 1999 and 2003. The lawsuits referenced unequal treatment of black motorcyclists by the city, four restaurants and a hotel.
Negotiated settlements
were reached with the City of Myrtle Beach, Damon’s Oceanfront and
Barefoot Landing, Greg Norman’s Australian Grill, the Yachtsman Resort
Hotel and J. Edward’s Great Ribs and More.
“The NAACP remains
vigilant in order to ensure that all tourists are treated equally,” said
Myrtle Beach NAACP Branch President Mickey James. “We will continue to
pursue litigation to right these wrongs.” (read more)
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Fort Lauderdale race riot, May 26, 2014
Monday, Memorial Day 2014, hundreds of blacks rioted in Fort Lauderdale beach, about 23 miles north of Miami, Florida.
Once again, as in every
news report since the POS entered the White House, news reporters
refused to identify the perpetrators as black, but described them
instead with what we now know to be the Orwellian Newspeak synonyms for
rioting blacks — “youths,” “teens,” and “young people.”
Once again, news reporters refused to call the incidents what they are — RIOTS.
In the case of CBS4 Miami reporter Carey Codd (or his editor), the dissembling reached absurd heights:
- Codd actually called the riot of hundreds of blacks — which necessitated the deployment of police in riot gear, the use of mace, the closing of bridges to the beach for an hour, and the arrest of dozens of those lovely “young people” — a mere “ruckus,” a word that the dictionary defines as “row” or “disturbance.”
- Not only did Codd studiously avoid identifying the “young people” as black, the news video had few images of the (black) rioters, but many images of menacing policemen in riot gear.
What follows is Carey Codd’s lies-of-omission report for CBS4 Miami, May 26, 2014, followed by screenshots I took from CBS4′s (click here) and WPLG local10′s (click here) news videos, which clearly show the racial identity of these “young people”:
Fort Lauderdale police believe hundreds of young people made their way to the beach for one reason this Memorial Day, to cause trouble.
Police described a volatile scene Monday night as they had to arrest dozens of people that were part of unruly crowds. Two separate incidents late Monday afternoon kept officersbusy. One scene was near the area of 31st Avenue and West Broward Boulevard. The other was near the beach close to A1A.
Police said around 5 o’clock in the afternoon, hundreds of young people made their way to the beach for one reason this Memorial Day, to cause trouble.
Fort Lauderdale Police were in riot gear as a large crowd of young people moved through A1A reportedly causing mayhem. “We had several reports of individuals who were reaching into vehicles, striking drivers. We have reports individuals who were jumping on top of taxicabs,” said Detective Deanna Greenlaw with Fort Lauderdale Police Department.
Fort Lauderdale Police
officials said a group of young people came to the beach to fight and
when police quickly broke it up, they scattered through the streets. “This was something that was planned through
these individuals and they were coming toFort Lauderdale Beach Park for
this purpose, to cause a problem,” added Greenlaw.
Some people who
witnessed the scene said the situation got out of hand. Others said
police sprayed the troublemakers with mace. Police tell CBS4’s Carey
Codd they arrested dozens of people and shut down bridges to the beach for an hour.
By nightfall police
were still at the ready as investigators said a tag team effort between
Fort Lauderdale and the Broward Sheriff’s Office kept people safe. “The
Fort Lauderdale Police Department and the Broward Sheriff’s Office
showed them that their rowdy, unruliness would not be tolerated,” said
Greenlaw.
Despite all the chaos
police said they have no reports of any residents or tourists being
injured, nor were any police officers injured. CBS4 News has learned a young person was stabbed but
that person apparently did not want to cooperate with investigators or
press charges. Police also said there was a report of a brick being used to vandalize a Broward County bus.
The police spokesperson said transit officials believed that was done
by one of the people involved in the altercations here on the beach and
bus routes to the beach were shut down after that.
Screen shots from CBS4 Miami’s video:
Screen shots from the more honest WPLG local10′s news video:
We can only
imagine what these “young people” would do when the food stamps, welfare checks, and Social Security “Disability” benefits are curtailed or withdrawn.from sundance:
Just as the national media is censoring the violence at Black Bike Week in Myrtle Beach, so too they are censoring violence at Black Beach Weekend in Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
The event is officially called “Urban Beach Week,” and unofficially referred to as “Black Beach Week”. The Facebook page is HERE and the website for Urban Beach Week is HERE.
As you may have noted in a
few disingenuous media articles - Miami was prepared for the event.
Consequently it seems some of the annual chaos shifted North to Fort Lauderdale.
Miami police arrested 225 people in connection with the 2014 event. The drop in arrests in/around Miami was offset by the increase in arrests in Fort Lauderdale.
The media are vaguely reporting on some generally associated violence in Fort Lauderdale. However, they are totally censoring the impetus of the event and/or the obvious racial componentry that was involved. The media are simply reporting that an “unruly crowd” of “hundreds of young people” just spontaneously showed up near the beach to riot and caused “a ruckus.”
What the media do not show is
an army of police on motorcycles and horse who quelled the violence as
soon as it began. Law enforcement immediately ordered businesses to
lock their doors to prevent looting and control crowd flow with
overwhelming force. Thugs around the event attacked and robbed random
people, then blocked traffic and jumped on the hoods of cars.
“We had several reports of individuals who were reaching into vehicles, striking drivers. We have reports individuals who were jumping on top of taxicabs,” said Detective Deanna Greenlaw with Fort Lauderdale Police Department. (link)
In quick response the prepared police completely shut down A1A, the road which parallels the beach, until the trouble making “Urban Beach Crowd” cleared the area.
You will not find a media correctly outlining what the event was, and/or who were the participants were. A 100% media blackout.
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