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Last year’s spring break in Miami Beach was off-the-charts crazy. Shootings every weekend, huge brawls popping up, and streets swamped with out-of-towners looking to turn the city upside down. Sure, Miami Beach’s businesses thrive on tourist bucks, but at what cost? It’s gotten to the point where it’s doing more damage than good to the city and the people as a whole. The uncomfortable truth about the situation is something many shy away from. Yet, reality points to a significant amount of the violent turmoil being caused by black revelers. The Miami Herald covered the situation, but predictably, they framed it as a “racist” issue, sidestepping the basic facts of the matter.

The reality is that after the white crowds thinned out in Miami Beach, the situation escalated into gun violence and massive criminal chaos.

Miami Herald:

In its all-out effort to shed spring break crowds that are largely Black and Latino, the city of Miami Beach, under new leadership, has gone too far this year. No matter how hip the “breaking up with spring break” campaign tries to be, the optics of cracking down on everyone to punish the unlawful acts of troublemakers are awful. White city leaders and police forget that by closing public garages in South Beach, allegedly as a tactic to stem violence, will have the result of shutting out people of color, so evoking the ugly racial history of acts to discourage Black people from using Florida beaches. Setting up DUI checkpoints to keep people from drinking and driving is valid. Maintaining a strong police presence, as is done during other large-scale events — valid. Placing a curfew and limiting drinking hours, after shooting and violence break out — valid. But pricing out parking or closing public garages during two weekends that attract Black and brown people is discriminatory.

It’s not how white college students were treated for their debauchery. For decades, Fort Lauderdale was the spring break capital of unruly, drunk and high white teenagers who jumped off balconies, trashed hotel rooms, wore string bikinis and minuscule Speedo swimwear.

What the Miami Herald fails to understand is that there’s a big difference between some drunk white guy jumping off a balcony and some black guy opening fire on the beach.

So, Miami Beach has had enough of the gunplay, thugs, and criminality. Instead of rolling out the welcome mat for spring breakers, they’ve switched gears completely, launching an ad that pretty much says, “Stay the heck away.” Revolver’s own Darren Beattie studied the bold new “anti-spring break” ad and had this to say:

Darren’s clever reference to El Salvador’s tough-nosed President Bukele is spot-on; he’s also cracking down on the thugs and bad guys in his country. And when you look back at some of Miami Beach’s “spring break” highlights, it’s no mystery why they’re done with the madness.

@simulatedhuman1:

I mean. It tends to make some black people mad but.. we tend to be our worst enemy lol. Hell. Look at spring break in Miami. We can’t even go on vacation it seems and be civil. Of course this is not all black people. But. It’s a common thing for years. We don’t find value in our selves it seems a bit of the times. We travel to Miami to kill each other. Couple have already died already. It’s sad.

It’s hard being black in America because it really feels sometimes we have to like.. disassociate and do even more to prove not all crazy lol.

Of course just an opinion. Maybe can trigger civil convo on it and not everyone come for everyone cyber head lol.

Governor Ron DeSantis is drawing the line, declaring, ‘Enough is enough.’ Beyond launching an ad campaign essentially telling spring breakers to hit up a different state, he’s beefing up law enforcement presence in Miami Beach and other Florida spring break hotspots in order to keep the peace.

NBC Miami:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending more law enforcement to Miami Beach and other spring break destinations throughout the state in an effort to keep things under control.

DeSantis made the announcement at a news conference Tuesday at the Miami Beach Convention Center where he was joined by Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Mark Glass and Dave Kerner, Executive Director of Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

DeSantis said the state will provide about 60 Florida Florida State troopers in South Florida and an additional 24 that are part of a quick response team.

Other law enforcement assets are being sent to spring break hotspots like Daytona Beach and Panama City Beach, DeSantis said.

The Republican governor stressed law and order across the state and said this year he didn’t want to wait until a state of emergency was declared.

“We don’t welcome mayhem,” DeSantis said. “The state has a lot going on, it’s a fun place to be at and we want to see people do that, but we also are going to insist that people respect the law.”

Meiner said he requested the reinforcement and discussed the strict measures the city is implementing in the hopes of “putting an end to spring break” in the city.

Miami Beach’s push to dial back spring break festivities comes amid rising concerns over rapes, shootings, brawls, and damage to private property. Sure, spring break has a long history of being wild, but it’s escalated to a troubling degree with a shift in the crowd demographics. This is nothing new; we’ve all seen this happen in liberal-run cities, spring break or not. If acknowledging this reality makes anyone uneasy, that’s too bad, because acknowledging the truth is crucial for the city’s liberation and the safety of the locals.

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