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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC builds monuments to corruption?

How predictably pathetic.[/quote]

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?  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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?[/quote]

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