Renaming F.W. Ballou High School to Marion Barry, Jr., Senior High School

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All this talk about Barry being a racist, most elected officials are so does it matter if he was a racist or not?

Why use taxpayer money in 2016 to put up a statue to a racist crook and "honor" him in various other public ways?

[Anonymous]

Marion Barry High?

Yes, he was, and much of the time!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this talk about Barry being a racist, most elected officials are so does it matter if he was a racist or not?

Why use taxpayer money in 2016 to put up a statue to a racist crook and "honor" him in various other public ways?

Will Donald win the presidency election?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this talk about Barry being a racist, most elected officials are so does it matter if he was a racist or not?

Why use taxpayer money in 2016 to put up a statue to a racist crook and "honor" him in various other public ways?

Will Donald win the presidency election?

No, but what does this have to do with honoring a racist buffoon who nearly ran DC into the ground (until the federal control board came in to save us)?

[Anonymous]

Isn't Ballou's reputation bad enough already? Why make it worse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All this talk about Barry being a racist, most elected officials are so does it matter if he was a racist or not?

Read the title of this thread. We are discussing the possibility of naming a high school after the racist, corrupt, and drug-addicted school budget cutting joke that is Marion Barry.

Ballou's best known graduate shot himself. Naming the school after Marion Barry would be another self-inflicted wound. Let them call it whatever they want, it really will not matter.

Who was that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't Ballou's reputation bad enough already? Why make it worse?

Let's put it this way. Renaming the school Marion Barry High won't do the students or the graduates any favors.

[Anonymous]

Even if they do you can look on the bright side that most of the kids who go there won't have to worry about what their diploma reads.

[Anonymous]

Barry was about the most loathsome political figure around. If DC puts up a statue to him, what's next? Robert Mugabe?

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Barry was about the most loathsome political figure around. If DC puts up a statue to him, what's next? Robert Mugabe?

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