Oy vey. About 90 mins south of me:
I am so glad I talked my wife out of going to Florida for spring break with the kids. A cabin in the woods is much more relaxing. And I don’t have to deal with a curfew if I want to get a coffee at 5am.
All of that is concentrated in one area of Miami Beach, but Miami would never be my choice for spring break vacation. Other areas of FL, sure.
See… the problem isn’t the behavior. The problem is calling out the behavior.
Connolly Graham, a member of Miami Beach’s newly formed Black Affairs Advisory Committee, told the Miami Herald Friday that “we have to realize that we are definitely fighting an undertone of racism” among the city’s largely white resident base, some of whom have called Black spring breakers “thugs” or “animals” on social media.
Pointing out black on black violence has always been white racism. I’m sure they all just came from a bible study.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/spring-breaker-woman-drugged-raped-and-found-dead-in-miami-beach-hotel-idd
The spring breaker woman who was drugged, raped and found dead in her hotel room in Miami Beach last Thursday has been identified in a report as 24-year-old Christine Englehardt.
Englehardt was found dead and semi-nude last Thursday at the Albion Hotel on South Beach after she had been drugged and raped, The New York Post reported.
Evoire Collier, 21, and Dorian Taylor, 24 – both from Greensboro, North Carolina – were arrested Monday on charges that they drugged and raped her and stole her credit cards, according to police reports cited by The Post.
Both men were caught on surveillance footage entering the Albion Hotel with the impaired victim, a Pennsylvania resident, at around 1 a.m. on Thursday, police said.
I guess pointing out that she was white and they are black is white racism also?
I would think so.
I doubt you will see any major news outlets using language to identify the perpetrators as black, victim white. You’ll find photos accompanying news stories, but no language used to describe race. The perpetrators will be described as ‘two men’ or ‘spring breakers’.
Enjoy it, this is the calmest Broward County will ever be until Urban Beach Week.
What I love is when the headlines talk about the crime/violence/rioting but the accompanying photo is stock, white kids partying at Daytona. They must really dig to make sure there are no minorities in frame. I’m not saying it’s only blacks acting the ass, but I’m pretty sure some of these pics are from Gidget movies.
I, for one, am SHOCKED. All my encounters with young black folks have been of them discussing Wittgenstein and Schoepenhauer over Earl Gray tea.
Earl Gray comes in forties?
In your better Convenient Stores and Bodegas it does…Right between the Hennessy and the Swishers.
You two are cracking me up! That’s some funny stuff right there.
I guess it depends which group of young black folks I’m hanging with that day.
Funniest shit about Urban Week in Miami are the wealthy black celebrities who keep trying to have “open house” parties and are constantly amazed when their shit gets stolen and busted up.
The real problem, and one that the guy in the video makes, is the idea of “black community.” If you try and create a standard that everyone is beholden to, people will constantly lower the bar to make allowances for their friends and family who are 100% gangsta. My friends wife is a school principal, went to Oral Roberts University and is one of the nicest people you would ever meet, her sister who came from the same family is a school teacher and if I told you she was on work release from prison you’d believe me, at her baby shower her maid of honor got arrested because the baby shower turned into a “No you din’t” throw down. She wasn’t angry that a bunch of ghetto bitches broke up her baby shower and the police arrested a couple of them, she was angry that her own sister decided not to attend.
Now I get when most black people were the target of serious racism during the period of post civil war until around the 1950s and came together as communities for obvious reasons. But if you are beholden to a community or accept rules of a community then you will never truly be free. I know black people and I know people, some of whom just happen to be black.
Granted it can be hard to emancipate yourself and there is a crab bucket effect, but it can be done, the first step is seeing yourself as an individual and learning to conduct yourself accordingly. I have some black friends who are still uncomfortable being seen in popeyes because they think it reinforces a negative stereotype, and while I can comprehend that POV, I still could never accept not eating at popeyes because what somebody who I don’t respect anyway might think. That chicken is awesome.
By the same token, I don’t worry that eating at Chic Fila will make somebody think I’m a religious zealot, anti gay or whatever. It’s chicken, not politics.
I guess it depends which group of young black folks I’m hanging with that day.
Funniest shit about Urban Week in Miami are the wealthy black celebrities who keep trying to have “open house” parties and are constantly amazed when their shit gets stolen and busted up.
The real problem, and one that the guy in the video makes, is the idea of “black community.” If you try and create a standard that everyone is beholden to, people will constantly lower the bar to make allowances for their friends and family who are 100% gangsta. My friends wife is a school principal, went to Oral Roberts University and is one of the nicest people you would ever meet, her sister who came from the same family is a school teacher and if I told you she was on work release from prison you’d believe me, at her baby shower her maid of honor got arrested because the baby shower turned into a “No you din’t” throw down. She wasn’t angry that a bunch of ghetto bitches broke up her baby shower and the police arrested a couple of them, she was angry that her own sister decided not to attend.
Now I get when most black people were the target of serious racism during the period of post civil war until around the 1950s and came together as communities for obvious reasons. But if you are beholden to a community or accept rules of a community then you will never truly be free. I know black people and I know people, some of whom just happen to be black.
Granted it can be hard to emancipate yourself and there is a crab bucket effect, but it can be done, the first step is seeing yourself as an individual and learning to conduct yourself accordingly. I have some black friends who are still uncomfortable being seen in popeyes because they think it reinforces a negative stereotype, and while I can comprehend that POV, I still could never accept not eating at popeyes because what somebody who I don’t respect anyway might think. That chicken is awesome.
By the same token, I don’t worry that eating at Chic Fila will make somebody think I’m a religious zealot, anti gay or whatever. It’s chicken, not politics.
Urban Week?
Memorial Day weekend in Miami. Used to be called Hip Hop Fest but soon turned into constant shootings, confrontations with locals and law enforcement and a continues weekend of various kinds of property destruction.
If you behave like a thug or an animal…
Very well said Steyr.