DC to unveil taxpayer-funded statue of Mayor-for-Life

[Anonymous]

While Barry is not popular with the DCUM set, he is still very popular with a lot Washingtonians and did a lot for the people of this city. He wasn’t perfect by any means but he’s still a civil rights icon and local legend to many people here.

[Anonymous]

The DC Summer Youth Employment Program was a boondoggle of epic proportions.

And, the black middle class has declined in DC. Bowser's pathway to the Middle Class? The Suitland Parkway. DC's wealth gap black vs. white is so large because any black resident with the ability to leave did so.

Look at the current grading scandal. Who does that impact the most?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DC Summer Youth Employment Program was a boondoggle of epic proportions.

And, the black middle class has declined in DC. Bowser's pathway to the Middle Class? The Suitland Parkway. DC's wealth gap black vs. white is so large because any black resident with the ability to leave did so.

Look at the current grading scandal. Who does that impact the most?

I'm sorry, aside from the first sentence which is a boondoggle of ignorance rooted in unfamiliarity if ever their was one, what's any of what you said got to do with the statue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While Barry is not popular with the DCUM set, he is still very popular with a lot Washingtonians and did a lot for the people of this city. He wasn’t perfect by any means but he’s still a civil rights icon and local legend to many people here.

He was a crooked, tax-cheating, corrupt racist (and addict) who mismanaged DC into a downward spiral. He dis-served most the poor people he claimed to champion, as the quality of DC services on which they depended was terrible to nonexistent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While Barry is not popular with the DCUM set, he is still very popular with a lot Washingtonians and did a lot for the people of this city. He wasn’t perfect by any means but he’s still a civil rights icon and local legend to many people here.

He was a crooked, tax-cheating, corrupt racist (and addict) who mismanaged DC into a downward spiral. He dis-served most the poor people he claimed to champion, as the quality of DC services on which they depended was terrible to nonexistent.

Tell it to the crowd outside the Wilson Building on March 3rd.

[Anonymous]

DC builds monuments to corruption?

How predictably pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC builds monuments to corruption?

How predictably pathetic.

How is honoring Marion Barry any different from naming an airport, federal building, and parks after a president who sanctioned the sale of cocaine in order to fund weapons sales to Iran?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC builds monuments to corruption?

How predictably pathetic.

How is honoring Marion Barry any different from naming an airport, federal building, and parks after a president who sanctioned the sale of cocaine in order to fund weapons sales to Iran?

Naming a Federal Building after a man who was infamous for his abuse of authority including trying to silence Dr. King and referring to gays as “sex deviants” (despite his own suspicious affiliations/inclinations) and attempting to root them from jobs at the FBI and the federal government is pretty pathetic too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC builds monuments to corruption?

How predictably pathetic.

How is honoring Marion Barry any different from naming an airport, federal building, and parks after a president who sanctioned the sale of cocaine in order to fund weapons sales to Iran?

Naming a Federal Building after a man who was infamous for his abuse of authority including trying to silence Dr. King and referring to gays as “sex deviants” (despite his own suspicious affiliations/inclinations) and attempting to root them from jobs at the FBI and the federal government is pretty pathetic too.

If you're referring to the J. Edgar Hoover building, that was a mistake IMHO and a decision taken decades ago. The name likely will not survive the move or rebuilding of the FBI headquarters. But why in 2018, when there has been an extended national conversation about removing statues or changing the names of sites commemorating crooks, scoundrels and racists of a long time ago, would DC decide to install (at public expense) a statue that commemorates ... a crook, scoundrel and racist individual?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC builds monuments to corruption?

How predictably pathetic.

How is honoring Marion Barry any different from naming an airport, federal building, and parks after a president who sanctioned the sale of cocaine in order to fund weapons sales to Iran?

Naming a Federal Building after a man who was infamous for his abuse of authority including trying to silence Dr. King and referring to gays as “sex deviants” (despite his own suspicious affiliations/inclinations) and attempting to root them from jobs at the FBI and the federal government is pretty pathetic too.

If you're referring to the J. Edgar Hoover building, that was a mistake IMHO and a decision taken decades ago. The name likely will not survive the move or rebuilding of the FBI headquarters. But why in 2018, when there has been an extended national conversation about removing statues or changing the names of sites commemorating crooks, scoundrels and racists of a long time ago, would DC decide to install (at public expense) a statue that commemorates ... a crook, scoundrel and racist individual?

I couldn't tell you why, I'm not on the Council and I didn't go to any of the hearings to oppose the idea seeing how I had other more important things to worry about. I guess you did too. Oh well, too late to stop it now and I still have more important things to worry about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DC Summer Youth Employment Program was a boondoggle of epic proportions.

And, the black middle class has declined in DC. Bowser's pathway to the Middle Class? The Suitland Parkway. DC's wealth gap black vs. white is so large because any black resident with the ability to leave did so.

Look at the current grading scandal. Who does that impact the most?

Heck, when Barry was Mayor-for-Life, the mayor's office didn't even know how many "workers" were on the DC government payroll. Estimates varied between 40,000 to 50,000 in a city of less than 650,000 residents at the time. Thank God that the Feds stripped power away from the mayor and eventually imposed the Control Board.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I really hope the design has a crack in it.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

To paraphrase the old Jay Leno joke about Mayor-for-Life Marion Shipolev* Barry, they shouldn't put up a statue of him in the District of Columbia. They should put up a statue in a district in Colombia.

*Barry adopted his middle name after a high-ranking Soviet Communist figure from the 1940s/50s.