Bikers Clubs Are About Love~East & West Bay Black Motorcycle Clubs

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When you continuously are faced with police harrassment it is wise to keep an attorney on hand to address your concerns. That's what the mob does. Below is a copy of an article from the East Bay West Online website: By Dara Kerr/WEST OAKLAND The smell of burning rubber and exhaust fumes fills the night air. Girls in stilettos, tight jeans and leather jackets stand around drinking out of plastic cups while every few minutes a biker revs his or her engine and screeches through the crowd. The faint sound of hip-hop pulses under the motorcycle engines. This is one of Oakland’s black motorcycle club parties – parties that the city is trying to curtail. Last summer, the Oakland Police Department stopped allowing special events permits for motorcycle parties at Historic Sweet’s Ballroom. Special events permits are required by the City of Oakland for any gathering over 50 people and it is the police department’s discretion whether they are granted. And in Oakland, motorcycle clubs want to know why their parties aren’t getting the ok. In the parking lot of East Oakland’s Moose Lodge, hundreds of bikes are lined up: Harleys, Ninjas, low-riders with boom boxes, and helmets are poised on the handlebars like skulls on sticks. Four to five hundred people walk or ride through the entry gate, and everyone seems to know each other. There are hugs and shouts as each person enters the lot. Inside the lodge, stuffed moose heads hang over the spot where people can get professional photos taken, just like a high school prom. Frilly dresses and suits are traded in for jeans and leather. The hallway opens up into an industrial-sized room with a DJ on stage playing west coast hip-hop while people crowd in to dance. “It’s a brotherhood, a sisterhood. If you’re hungry, you get fed,” says Myeisha Millsaps, a local biker. “You’re accepted no matter who you are.” Northern California has dozens of black motorcycle clubs and a different one sponsors each party; it
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