44; younger than Barry was when his driver would drop him off at the HU forms in the 80s, but I still have time. |
+1 |
Barry could have been great. He was a civil rights proponent when he started out. Then he became comically troubled and allowed all sorts of ineptitude to permeate the dc government with crony appointees. He smoked crack. He banged whores. Then he found Jesus and got re-elected. He had a way with words: https://youtu.be/1KU75BdSKCs Anyway, we all have no idea what we’re talking about obviously. Even if we grew up here and were around when the city fell into receivership. The 80’s and 90’s were definitely a crazy time here what with all the shootings and drugs, but obviously we don’t know what we’re talking about and only you with your cryptic one sentence answer could ever know the perfect history of this city. |
Wow Barry was super racist. |
| Celebrating Marion Barry day sounds fun. |
Gee- who exactly was it who got shot, and who ended up hooked on drugs in DC? I stand by what I said: Barry was a sell out to the community. I’ve been here longer than all of you. You have no idea. |
Your post doesn’t make sense. |
| Every DC resident interested in Barry should read Tom Sherwood's Dream City. I think it is fair to the man. |
Did Barry get shot? I thought he was just hooked on drugs. |
You guys don't seem to be disagreeing that Barry was bad for DC. |
Plenty of cities all over America where Marion Barry was not the mayor had issues with shootings and drugs during this time period. |
| He may have started out with the right intentions, but ultimately he was a hot mess and by extension so was the city. |
Yes. |
https://wamu.org/story/17/03/09/40-years-ago-today-terrorists-took-d-c-council-shot-marion-barry/ |
Holy sh$t! I got here in Barry 2.0 and somehow have never heard this. |