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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Marion Barry is a loony old racist embarrassment to Washington DC.  They booted Sterling from the NBA.  It's high time that the Council censured and removed Barry from office.  Lord knows all of Barry's criminal conduct, tax fraud, corrupt conduct and repeated racist rants.[/quote]

There is a lot more to Barry than this caricature. For better or worse, his history and DC's history are intricately linked. While Barry is certainly worthy of criticism, [b]there is a lot in his life deserving of praise[/b]. I think it is important to get beyond a single dimension in how he is viewed.
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Oh, please educate us heathen non-progressives on the ways Marion Barry should be praised![/quote]

[i]Before we begin class let me first to say that no one is suggesting that Marion Barry is a saint and somehow above reproach, nor is anyone saying that many of his comments and actions are somehow beyond criticism.  However, for those who are too young to remember or too indifferent to care, Marion Barry wasn't always a controversial contemptible crackhead...[/i]

Your history lesson for today class is about SNCC.  The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a major force in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.  From engaging in sit-ins at discriminatory establishments and organizing voter registration drives all over the South to the 1961 Freedom Rides which were designed to test a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel facilities unconstitutional, SNCC had many members - students mind you - who put their lives on the line in the interest of bringing attention to racism and peacefully demonstrating against inequality.  The organization also played a leading role in the 1963 March on Washington where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

In May 1960 Fisk University student Marion Barry was elected SNCC’s ?rst chairman.

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