Black Bikers Experience

  

  

I’ve been rather busy these days and haven’t posted an article lately. Well I was going through my emails and I wanted to share with all of you an email that I received. The email was from Mr. Cliff Vaughs. He has been a great inspiration too me. He has encouraged me to continue chronicling our rich history as Black Bikers and also our contributions to the sport of motorcycling. Below is the email that he sent expressing his appreciation in what he inspired me to do.

  

This is the first email I received when I wrote the article on Cliff Vaughs.

  

My goodness Goldie…how did you do it ? How did you find that material ?

  

Please advise on how I can download directly or access readily.

  

I’d like to send the “Who is Cliff Vaughs”: first of all to myself and then to my kids and all my old friends. It’s just remarkable. Especially since I’ve been lately contacted by documentarians about my role in “Easy Rider” .I’d like “D” Stevens to see it too.

  

Well….thank you very much. Honey, you’ve done me a real service.

  

Capitan Medianoche

  

This is the most recent email.

  

from:Clifford Vaughs
to:elliot gold
cc:goldie1779
bossnomad
dateFri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM
subjectFW: Me

  

Miss Sowers lives in Atlanta.

I have been encouraging her to develop her skills as a historian for the “biker” phenomena.

She has done well and would certainly welcome you as a sort of kindred spirit. The link has the “Who is Cliff Vaughs” references.

  

This email tells me I ‘m doing the right thing and I thank Cliff Vaughs, Boss Mike, “Doc” Hollywood and others for holding my hand, guiding me through this process and encouraging me to continue writing about bikers and motorcycle clubs.

  

  

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If you don’t know now you will. Airtran Airways is a no go!!! I was in Dallas, TX for training about a week. Friday my flight was leaving at 7:35pm. I checked in and went thru security, no problem…
  

  

The problem started once I arrived at the gate. They instructed us to move down to another gate because our flight will leave from this gate. Moved to the new gate and then they said the flight will be delayed an hour. That was fine about 15 minutes later they said the flight was canceled due to bad weather conditions in Atlanta.

  

Confused yes because I spoke with my friend and he said it was raining and lightening but blowing over within the hour. I called my companies travel agency and booked the next flight out for me and my co-worker which was 7:30am Saturday.

  

Told to go to the counter to change ticket for tomorrow’s flight. Well this is when it gets good. The guy and girl at the desk first told me we had to pay $300 plus to secure the flight. They told others there were no flights til Sunday.

  

Called travel agency again and went to the counter with the phone and now they told us that we would need to pay the difference combined of over $300 plus because it would be more to leave on Saturday. What the hell…

  

They canceled the flight and me the customer had to pay more to go home? I didn’t make this decision, they did. Never new Airtran new how to play “Three Card Monty“. The said if our companies travel agency canceled the flight they had canceled, they’d apply that money toward our tickets and then we’d owe the addition money. Catch this, we were told there were no seats available on the flight leaving out Saturday morning but if we paid the $300 plus maybe, just maybe we’d have a seat. How do you go from not having seats to having seats if you pay the money. Airtran got game!
  

They had a flight that left at 5:10pm going to Atlanta and another one of our co-workers was on that flight. We thought he was home by now; not so fast. As we were walking to get our luggage and take a taxi back to the hotel; we passed the gate they moved us from. What an amazing thing we saw. The flight that left at 5:10pm didn’t. The people from that flight was at the gate we were moved from and they were leaving on our flight to Atlanta.
  

What happened to the bad weather being the reason to cancel our flight. Airtran was so horrible that they didn’t try to accommodate this family who the mother was going to her father’s funeral. The manager at the gate told her he couldn’t help her. He could have made arrangements to get her on our original flight…since it did leave for Atlanta without us.

  

I said I was going to give Airtran Airways a shout out but not in a good way. Bad, sorry, horrible customer service and liars at that. I almost forgot when I did get back to Atlanta there was a female employee of Airtran that was checking luggage to make sure baggage claim check was the same as the one on your ticket. She asked me to fly Airtran again. I told her the story…the short version. It was like this, Hell no never again!

  

She said that the pilots make the decisions on canceling flights and they get away with it because they are Union…I don’t blame Frontier Airlines from dissolving their partnership with Airtran; they suck!

  

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Hey Black Bikers and Black Motorcycle Clubs were you at Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend? Suzuki Motorcycle sponsored this Super Bike event and for those who were unable to attend check out the video. It was awesome and full of fun! The motorcycles were flying around the track…awesome dude.

  

  

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“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of
creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness”

  

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  

  

“An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity”—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  

This month of April marks the 42nd anniversary of the death of Dr. King and we are commemorating his life and work by creating a memorial in our nation’s capital. The Washington, DC, Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial will honor his life and contributions to the world through non violent social change.

  

The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be the first on the National Mall to recognize a person of color and a man of peace, not a president or a veteran of war. In 1996 Congress authorized the Memorial Foundation to raise funds to establish a national memorial to honor the legacy of Dr. King on the National Mall. The memorial’s very existence signifies that we as a people believe Dr. King and his legacy deserve this esteemed placement in what can be considered America’s “Hall of Fame.”

  

I won’t steal the thunder by writing anymore. To read the complete story click this link to go to the MLK Memorial News site. The information was captured from this site and Lowell Dempsey, contacted me to ask all black bikers and black motorcycle clubs to join in and be a part of the dream.

  

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