Beach week fun: Kevlar vests and weapons

The ACLU got this much right: Urban Beach Week is a black thing.

Most reporters call it “Urban Beach Week.”

But others – especially those in attendance at the annual Memorial Day celebration of violence, lawlessness, drugs and everything hip hop – know it as Black Beach Week.

The website BlackBeachWeek.com said 450,000 black people will be in Miami Beach this weekend for a “takeover.”

Residents of Miami Beach hate it. Especially after the debacle of 2011. Some local reaction: Antonino Lopez told CBS news in Miami the gathering ruins his town:

“It shows our city as nothing short of a war zone – Filthy streets, drive-by shooting, multiple cars crashed in the process, and total chaos on the streets. This is unacceptable and must be controlled before we totally lose our city, tourism & residents.”

The president of Hispanic “gay”-rights group Unity Coalition, Herb Sosa, wrote an open letter to Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower about it:

“There isn’t a residential street in South Beach not affected by tons of garbage, crime to our vehicles, excessive noise 24 hours a day, and simply a lack of respect for our community, citizens and property. Make the difficult but correct decision to put an end to Urban Weekend in Miami Beach.”

Doug Giles in Townhall.com describes the effect of the crowds of people on the usually pleasant beach town:

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