*Hotels, motels and restaurants in the Myrtle Beach area have discriminated against African-Americans for years by refusing to open during Black Bike Week, the NAACP charges in a pair of federal lawsuits.
According to Courthouse News Service the civil rights group contrasts the behavior of defendants Molly Darcy’s on the Beach, a restaurant and bar, and the American Pancake and Omelet House, with their business practices during the annual Harley Davidson Spring Bike Rally, which is attended almost exclusively by white bikers.
Black Bike Week is the only time of year when most of the tourists visiting the popular beachfront destination are nonwhite, according to the NAACP.
“For the past few years, Molly Darcy’s on the Beach has refused to serve visitors of Black Bike Week by closing during its otherwise customary business hours,” the complaint states. The same is allegedly true of the American Pancake and Omelet House.
Had the establishments been open, class members would have eaten at both establishments, the NAACP said.
Compounding the organization’s anger is that fights and skirmishes – including an armed confrontation between Myrtle Beach police and white biker gangs – have occurred during the Harley Week event, but not during Black Bike Week, yet businesses continue to cater to white bikers and refuse to serve black ones.
Read more at Courthouse News Service.
was stationed there in ’78, and had a cop tell us to leave the beach, that DIRECTLY across the street from the base! I guess things never change.
Why are folks sweating this?!
If those dumb a@@e@ want to close up shop for a week and loose money, LET THEM! Then go and add insult to injury by coming up with other week long Black events during the year in that area and let them close down for those weeks also! Areas want to discrimate against Blacks, move all major Black events to that area for the upcoming year or two. Are you following me yet?
You want to close down every time we come to town, be my guest. I’ll give you every legal and legitimate reason I can think of to continue to do so. Glad to help your dumb a@@e@ out. Right out of business!!! And, my way is a hell of a lot quicker than the lawsuit route. Blacks as a whole need to be a whole lot smarter and intelligently and quickly react to things like this. You can hit fools hard and have them not even realize that they’re about to be knocked the f*ck out!