[BJClinton]

Would there be an article written if it were 250,000 white people invading Galveston?

Ha! It's called Mardi Gras. People get piss drunk, urinate in public and engage in public sex acts. It was a blast this year.

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Mardi Gras in Galveston had a $15 admission fee, people urinating in the alleys were ticketed, and the crowd was quite ethnicly mixed. Last year a friend of mine disappeared for the day when he got pinched for "public intoxication" even though he was not being disorderly.

The website owner for the Beach Party is quoted in the Houston Press article aand says that Mardi Gras is the white people's version of this which just is not true.

Headliner this year at Mardi Gras was BB King. Last year it was George Clinton and Funkadelic-Parliment. Certainly these performers appeal to black people as well.

While topless flashing was permitted at Galveston, there was a prohibition on genital exposure. "Public sex" is also prohibited.

Even as it is, there are shootings and gun incidents at night in the area surrounding the Mardi Gras celebration. Of course, the fact that the Crips and the Bloods have staked claim on the turf surrounding the festival is just a coincidence.