Ah, America. The head of the Myrtle Beach Merchants Association, gearing up for this year’s Memorial Day crowd, touches delicately on last year, when “three people died and seven were injured in eight shootings.” … And still those little things remain…
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Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco. The Spinnaker Club in Panama City Beach. These places, and whatever place this year’s melees in Myrtle Beach will choose, are emerging as icons of a peculiar form of capitalism — the form you get when you combine a society of the spectacle with guns and a totally unhinged profit motive.
It’s odd. The rhetoric of these massive motorcycle rallies is one of personal freedom, yet the events instantly turn their locales into police states. Read the details of the security presence and restriction of movement in Myrtle Beach.
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People are starting to notice the same thing at university football games. Because the drunken crowd is so nasty, everyone’s under heavy surveillance.
May 19th, 2015 at 9:37AM
What a tone-deaf thing to say.
May 19th, 2015 at 2:35PM
sounds like the makings of reality-tv gold…
May 19th, 2015 at 3:46PM
dmf: absolutely.
June 19th, 2017 at 4:34PM
“Atlantic Beach Bikefest, which began in 1980 as a rally for black motorcyclists”
I was at Coastal Carolina in 03-04 and again in 07-08. There was a lot to like there, but the beach ethic was really strong.
At the time, the Atlantic Beach Bikefest was informally known as Black Bike Week. I don’t know if that moniker is current.
June 19th, 2017 at 6:13PM
Yes – that’s the name:
http://www.blackbikeweek.us/