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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are mad because the principal is trying to mainstream curriculum?  Marion Barry may have made history but he was a corrupt opportunist who positioned himself as a champion of building the black middle class to benefit himself. He should have been a champion of educating to one's greatest potential.  I would be concerned with how Marion Barry is being presented to a roomful of kids.

Besides, the media wasn't contacted by the school and/or administrators so it's just a tabloid one sided version of whatever the truth may be.[/quote]

You are an idiot.  Marion Barry did a tremendous amount of good for the African-American community in Washington, DC, despite some of his personal shortcomings.  He championed educating one's greatest potential by opening opportunities for African-American to achieve middle class status.  In so doing, there are a lot of African-American students who had the opportunity to attend some of Washington, DC's finest private school, and subsequently enter colleges and universities around the country.  Through his Summer Youth Employment Program, generations of African-American youth received professional work experience that they may not otherwise have had.  By no means does Marion Barry the poster child for political opportunism.  There are political opportunist from various state, local and federal governments around this country.  Edwin Meese, Dan Rostenkowski, Newt Gingrich, Robert Torricelli, Randy Cunningham, Tom Delay, Ted Stevens, James Traficant and the list goes on and on.  However, since you're probably from Indiana, Ohio, or some other state, you feel the need to disparage and discount the positive impact Barry had on Washington, DC because you are completely clueless and an idiot.[/quote]

Marion Bary expanded the local government to provide bureaucratic/civil service opportunities for people who did not have the skills or education to do anything else. What were once middle class biacks are now paying for it through foreclosure and missed opportunities due to lack of education and a changing economy. He oppressed other Africans American and helped to create a permanent under class which persists to this day and fights tooth and nail against gentrification and the changing demographics of the city (see black on black oppression.)  Have you ever lived, worked or prospered outside of DC?  It would be interesting to see how many of the kids who took advantage of SYEP, availed themselves to private education and then matriculated through a quality college/university would classify themselves as middle class because everybody else was left behind.  [/quote]

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