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Myrtle Beach Restaurants Agree to Settlement

In 2003, 28 Myrtle Beach restaurants, including Greg Norman's Austrailian Grill, closed for a Black motorcycle week that preceeds a predominantly while Harley Davidson event.New reports say that Damon's Grill has agreed to pay $125,000 and to join the other restaurants in agreeing to treat the black bikers the same way they treat the mostly white Harley riders.The city of Myrtle Beach also had different traffic rules for the Black bikers, with certain streets one way for them, but two way for the Harley group.Hundreds of thousands of riders attended the two events.What is interesting is that the settlement does not require the restaurants to stop discriminating against the two groups, but only to do so equally so as not to discriminate on the basis of race.I have to wonder if they will now simply close the area to both riding groups.Given that Myrtle beach is a major riding destination, I hope that the American Motorcycle Association will get interested in this, if they aren't already involved. 10 application/xml false American motorcycle association black biker discrimination Greg Norman's Austrialian Grill harley davidson Myrtle Beach Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; Media Center PC 2.8) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mpadway false true false false true 201650 false false true false false false true 204494 Resource 201650 173239 173239 1211251431774 1211251431774 Controlled Black Bike Week

It is unfair, but there is a reason for everything.

Everyone wants to attack the business owners for not opening for black bike week, but reality is there is a reason that they close.  As a waitress that has been working in diners for most of her life, you can usually tell when a person is going to leave you a tip or not.  After years of treating everyone the same you realize that sometimes your efforts are a waste and you could have done less then half the work for the same pay.  Unfortunately, during black bike week waitresses and buliness know that the town is filled with those type of people.  I don't think that businesses just started closing for no reason.  It all had to start with some people acting up and causing a scene and ripping people off and waitresses busting their ass for no tip.  I originally started in NY where I would like to say that this wouldn't have been a problem... Since I have moved to SC I have become aware that no matter how you treat a certain type of african american, they still are going to use you up until you are dry and then laugh as they leave you nothing on the table.  It is a messed up situation, but I think that if the businesses are forced to close up on white bike weekend it is going to be a huge hit on the city.  People and businesses make good money on harley week just so then they can lose it during black bike week. 10 application/xml true Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 206.253.152.197 false true false false true 106829 blog blogsite/MichaelPadway/web