Posted on 11/23/2014 5:29:54 AM PST by Vaquero
WASHINGTON (AP) — Divisive and flamboyant, maddening and beloved, Marion Barry outshone every politician in the 40-year history of District of Columbia self-rule. But for many, his legacy was not defined by the accomplishments and failures of his four terms as mayor and long service on the D.C. Council.
Instead, Barry will be remembered for a single night in a downtown Washington hotel room and the grainy video that showed him lighting a crack pipe in the company of a much-younger woman. When FBI agents burst in, he referred to her with an expletive. She "set me up," Barry said.
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Amen, brother
he is now a good Democrat..........
Yes, he was corrupt and did all of the things said of him, but if he is to be condemned for the things he did, then how will those Christians who called him n*gg*r instead of following Jesus' call to "love one another" be judged? Weren't we warned about this?
As I said, I don't defend him, but if he was beyond God's grace because of the things he did, then many others may want to reexamine their own lives as well.
RIP.
That is sad.(”Ask not for whom the bell tolls”)
Barry actually started off as a pretty good guy when he was young—smart, honest and someone who fought for civil rights and unity between the races.
His fall from that—personal demons and corruption—was quite sad.
One last play of the race card. Fitting.
Services will be to puke for,they should hold them in Ferguson the day the not G is announced
They’re gathering at the crematorium chimney now...
He may be dead, but he will still vote several more times in the next couple of elections.
Oh good!
One down, now one Carter, two Clintons, and maybe (?) to go, then i might rest.
Former DC Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78”
Better yet, these things happen in threes.
Am I supposed to care?
” Instead, Barry will be remembered for a single night ..”
It was more than one night.
He died? Snort!
Heh heh. The wackos over at the HuffPost are lauding him as a great mayor. Some pretty good humor this AM.
The world’s most famous crack smoker.
The funny thing is, he actually preferred powdered cocaine.
Big question, is he voting for Hillary in the 2016 primary?
One can speculate about what might have happened had the booze and drugs not gotten to Barry. He was a mixed bag at first: young and dynamic; roots in the civil rights movement but able to work across racial lines (as he did in his first term); a change agent; a weakness for patronage and empire building, but probably not irremediably corrupt in the early years. Would/could the young firebrand have matured and played a constructive role? The record of that generation of civil rights movement politicos, the MLK successor generation, is not good, but the young Marion Barry had some potential.
Then booze, drugs, and the corruptions of power took him down. In precisely what order is something for the biographers to sort out. The racial game playing accelerated as he spiraled downwards. This was a matter of a drug addled crook retreating to the only base that would still support him. Well ... one of the only two bases of support; the democrat party machine and the unions were the other. Corruption does not matter to them either; in fact, they prefer it. The scary thing about DC in those years is that these elements constituted a voting majority. Those days, however, are gone.
I will go out on a limb and speculate that I am the only freeper who has ever been hugged by Marion Barry. It was not my fault. He got me before I saw it coming. But I will restrain my comments for today.
Those of us who live in the area have lost an endless font of amusement.
Bless his soul.
-JT
All I offer is good news that another race baiting POS is no more. Do with that news what you will.
Once, while resting briefly from our labor on the farm, my brother and I chanced to observe a very large Scarab beetle rolling a large ball of horse dung along the ground. The Scarab beetle forms dung into round balls and pushes them along the ground to its burrow, it can be observed with its head down toward the ground, its feet in the dung pushing the ball backward so that it cannot see anything except where it has been. Once it reaches its underground burrow it rolls the dung inside the burrow and deposits eggs in the dung and its young emerge later from a round ball of dung and leave the burrow to go forth and roll more balls of dung. For some odd reason the ancient Egyptians thought the Scarab beetle worthy of great respect, even worship as a diety, it was depicted on amulets placed on the heart of mummies, it was depicted as rolling the sun along its path through the sky. As country boys we called them by the formal name of “Tumbleturds”. We decided to name this one Barry Marion. Anyway, as we watched a crow suddenly swept down, grabbed the Scarab beetle and swallowed it whole. Sad it was, he was truly a great Tumbleturd.
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