Posted on 12/06/2014 8:53:27 PM PST by PROCON
WASHINGTON (AP) — Local and national political leaders, prominent clergy and ordinary Washingtonians who got their first jobs as a result of Marion Barry's programs were among the thousands who gathered Saturday to say goodbye to the man dubbed "Mayor for Life."
Barry died Nov. 23 at age 78. He served four terms as mayor and leaves a legacy as the most famous, the most beloved and the most divisive local leader in four decades of District of Columbia self-rule.
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That’s saying:
There is no crime in DC; ok well there are several hundred to a thousand or so murders each year; but that hardly matters.
WOW!
Barry died Nov. 23 and they’re just now getting around to burying him?
Hope someone remembered to drive a stake into his heart.
I think they cremated the body, then smoked the ashes.
First comes the ‘mourning’ then comes the lootin, followed by the burnin.
YEAH but the good stuff went up the furnace stack and I’m sure there were people there to breathe it in.
The man was a coke head after all.
“Outside of Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.” - SAM
He was a fruit!
depending on the area, that might not necessarily be all that bad.
Please do stay away from the museums though, I haven’t seen them all yet.
Did the mourners in attendance all smoke some crack in his honor
Saturday’s events follows days of commemoration.
Friday evening, a church Barry frequently attended in southeast D.C. hosted a community memorial service.
Friday morning, D.C. residents chanted Barry’s name while a procession for the “Mayor for Life” traveled through the District.
The procession left the Wilson Building at 9:30 a.m., traveling through downtown and into Ward 8, the section of the District where Barry lived. Barry also represented that portion of the city on the D.C. Council.
As the procession approached the Big Chair sculpture in Ward 8, residents lining the sidewalks along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue chanted Barry’s name and swarmed around the hearse carrying his body.
Barry’s widow, Cora Masters Barry, and son Christopher got out of their SUV and greeted residents with handshakes and hugs. Masters Barry said she wanted to “hear from and feel the people.”
At Ballou High School, students chanted “Ward 8,” and the drumline of the school’s marching band joined the procession. Barry’s casket was transferred to a horse-drawn caisson at United Medical Center for the last leg of the procession to Temple of Praise, a church in southeast D.C. that Barry regularly attended.
The city’s memorial events for Barry began Thursday, when his casket was brought to the Wilson Building to lie in repose. Family members, politicians and the public filed by the casket for the next 24 hours to pay their respects.
You have the same mindset as I do about certain landmarks. I hope to see Mount Rushmore intact, before the Taliban or ISIS destroys the entire monument to American capitalism.
I’ve crossed The Louve off my list already. By the time I could afford to travel to Paris, the Muslims will have destroyed it.
It had to have been a special event. Not just anyone gets to be taken to the cemetery in a HAZMAT vehicle to be buried.
fckn splib
Really? Celebrating this crack head?
Well, they elected him, so consider the constituency.
Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?
So that's what they call organized criminal activity. Time for Congress to resume its Constitutional duty of running the District.
Guess the boy missed the celebration today, maybe that is why he went to the hospital so he would not have to attend.
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