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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote=Anonymous]Marion Barry helped improve some people's lives, but [b]he also cemented the idea that cities run by African-Americans are corrupt, graft-riddled, and mismanaged to the point of incompetence. [/b] DC has decades of corruption to work through in its current councilmembers (and new Mayor - Barry supported the already tainted Bowser).  It's a legacy who's time has gone.  Thankfully.[/quote]What a lot of f**king nerve when corrupt, graft-riddled whites have pilfered and raped Wall Street, banks, mortgage loans, etc, for decades and that's the tip of the iceberg.

Only a small minded person would surmise that Barry epitomized African American political representation nationwide as indept and incompetent.  Total and utter bullshit.[/quote]

Agreed.  I'm always amazed that a single representative of a minority epitomizes a stereotype whereas a member of the majority is only an aberrant example.

So, Marion Barry established that AA politicians are corrupt, graft-riddled, incompetent scheisters, but Bob McDonald is misunderstood and stupid, but not criminal and was not representative of white politicians at all.

La plus ca change, la plus c'est la meme chose.

Racial double standards are never acceptable and the first PP above should be ashamed to be propagating such bigoted stereotypes.  Barry may have been corrupt, may have been many things, but representative of his race?  That's an unfair generalization to make.[/quote]

Barry wasn't corrupt. He was never accused of corruption. Believe me if the USA could have prosecuted him on corruption, they would have. Barry's demons were women followed by drug addiction. [/quote]

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