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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:56, you are the one calling names, not me, so please look yourself in the eye and see who has the bad behavior.

I said Barry was a mixed bag; how is that not reality? How is it racist?

I honestly had not given any thought to the issue of state sponsored funeral for politicians actually. I would be happy if we do no spend any Goverment money on a Bush funeral. Or a Clinton one. I can see now that I was naive in thinking the DC government shouldn't spend money on a funeral. But that does not make me racist! I also thought that it was bizarre that federal workers got a day off for Reagan's death. But I was unaware of funeral stuff as I did not live here at the time.[/quote]

I never could stand Marion Barry.  Still, I don't object that he have some official recogniztion in death as a four-term mayor, albeit a disgraced one.   It's fine for his casket to lie in the District Building and be carried by police pallbearers. It's worth noting, however, that Nixon, as a disgraced former president, voluntarily elected not to have a state funeral in Washington in favor of a lower key ceremony at his library in California.)   I strongly object to the efforts of Mayor Gray (who called Barry a "national icon") and others, including it seems Ms. Henderson, to airbrush away history when it comes to Barry.[/quote]

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