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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]- and Donald Sterling once made donations to liberal democrats and was nominated by the NAACP for a civil rights award- so should we look the other way towards his racist comments the way you suggest we ignore Barry's bigotry?

24 years of racist bigotry?  Decades of public corruption?  Violations of DC hate speech laws within the last few years??

C'mon! How big of a hipocrit are you?  Why are you trying so hard to defend someone who has damage our city as much as Barry has??[/quote]

Apparently we have a new tradition in which we compare anyone we don't like to Donald Sterling. I actually shouldn't say "we", because this is not my tradition. Rather, it seems limited to reading comprehension-challenged blowhards. Every poster who has acknowledged positive aspects to Barry had also agreed that there are negative aspects. I understand that you do not want your one-dimensional image of Barry to be complicated by facts that don't fit your preferred narrative. One dimension is probably enough of a challenge for you in any case. But, why are do you mischaracterizing the views of those of us capable of observing more than one dimension? Is this an accidental result of your inability to read simple English, or an intentional distortion that is simply your style of argument? 
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The fact that he once fought against racism only makes his own personal racism all the more loathsome. Like a campaigner against pedophilia who turns out to be a pedophile himself. That's what Marion Barry is.[/quote]

Yep - like the judge or police officer caught in a criminal act, Barry shoul - of all people, know better than to continually make racist comments about people in the very city he's elected to lead.  And it isn't even white people he's bigoted against; it's minorities and new immigrants! No amount of supposed civil rights work in the 60s makes up for his continued, unapologetic racism today.

Stop making excuses for racists.[/quote]

Lol who's making excuses?  At the end of the day you reap what you sow.  Marion Barry is not on anybody's Honorable Guest list, nobody's inviting him on their talk show or rushing to publish his memoirs.  He's been a big-mouthed jerk for many years and no one wants anything to do with him, which is coincidentally why he flicked off on Tom Sherwood, because HBO is planning to portray him as such.  Similarly, Donald Sterling is getting his just desserts.  Forget the NBA, he made millions as a slum lord discriminating against and even displacing decent people who's only "crime" was being poor and a minority.  Neither of these purported prejudiced pricks is loving life right now in case you hadn't noticed and I say GOOD. [/quote]

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