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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]This.  Not to mention that at a time when they are literally knocking statues of Confederate racists off their pedestals in places like New Orleans and Richmond, along come DC local politicians who are falling all over themselves to commemorate a modern-day racist and crook, Marion Barry.  This is someone who, aside from his crack use, serial disrespect of women, tax evasion and corruption, repeatedly disparaged with his public racist statements groups like Asian-American shopkeepers, Filipino-American nurses, etc.

Now they want, at taxpayer expense no less, to erect statues, name UDC buildings, rename Ballou HS, all to celebrate DC's Great Leader and Mayor-for-Life.  (On Ballou, please, please don't do this to a storied high school.  A John Lovitz film already made a national joke of "Marion Barry High.")[/quote]

As bad as Barry was on his worst days, he never came close to comparing to Confederate leaders. Making such a comparison is ridiculous. Barry never owned another human being, never advocated slavery, and certainly did not go to war with the United States. As for his faults, you will be hard pressed to find any perfect individual represented by a statue.
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It's, uh, high time for DC to move on from the Barry era.  Barry became a national joke and nearly turned the District of Columbia into one, as he was running DC into the ground.  Why would anyone want to perpetuate all that and honor such a dishonorable character?    :lol: [/quote]

46 year old white conservative male here, grew up in DC and Maryland, lived in this area my entire life:

Marion Barry was an honorable man who did his best as he understood it to represent and bring up those in D.C. who had no voice at the time.

He was also a flawed man, but those flaws should not be counted against [b]the good he did for the people he represented.[b]

Barry is only an embarrassment to those too ignorant or racist to understand or learn who he was. Barry was an Eagle Scout. He had a Masters in Chemistry. He was very close to completing medical school when he decided to enter politics. To say that he was anything other than an accomplished, complicated man who tried to do well by those he saw as without a voice is shameful

You're an ugly, ugly human being. [/quote]"

"The good he did for the people he represented"?!  Heck, DC public schools were so bad during Barry's time that the bathrooms lacked doors and toilet paper.  The condition of public housing was appalling.  Violent crime was rampant.  The DC government couldn't even pick up the garbage reliably.

As for the Masters in Chemistry, perhaps before there was Walter White, Marion Barry was the original "Breaking Bad"!
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