What's that you say?...............
Posted on 04/06/2012 1:33:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Marion Barry's mouth set him up. The disgraced former mayor of Washington, D.C., who was caught on tape in a 1987 crack cocaine sting, made an even bigger disgrace of himself and his city on Tuesday. Celebrating a Democratic primary victory, the city councilman attacked small businesses owned by "Asians" in his district. Then the race-baiting clown doubled down.
Barry told supporters in D.C.'s Ward 8: "We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go." Once pushed out, Barry promised, he would replace the foreign invaders with "African-American business people." Barry then took to the social networking platform Twitter to expound on the perils of "dirty" Asian shops in his neighborhood.
As documented by my Twitter curation start-up Twitchy.com, Barry posted photos of supposedly hazardous stores -- including Chinese restaurants surrounded not by trash or toxic waste, but by Plexiglas barriers and reinforced doors. Barry explained that Asian-owned businesses that had the audacity to protect themselves from crime were "lowering standards" in his constituents' communities.
In Barry's bizarre world, law-abiding entrepreneurs who take steps to prevent robberies are the ones who threaten Ward 8's quality of life -- not the armed thugs who threaten honest livelihoods in the first place. Vigilant wealth creators taking care of their families? Scourge of D.C. Profanity-spewing drug addicts inciting hatred against successful achievers of the American Dream? Model citizens!
Crazy Barry doesn't just need another round of rehab. He needs a reality check.
As a commenter on DCist.com noted, 2010 Census data showed that "Asians made up 0.4 percent of the Ward 8 population (blacks made up 93.5 percent, a 1 percent increase from 2000). If anything, Asians are moving out, not in -- the Asian population decreased 13.6 percent (from 301 people to 260 people) between 2000 and 2010. Meanwhile, the child poverty rate in Ward 8 sits at 48.3 percent, a 1.2 percent increase since 2000 -- in contrast, the District's overall child poverty rate decreased 3 percent since 2000. Now that's what I call defying the odds."
If Barry's ignorant slurs had come out of the mouth of, say, former GOP Gov. George Allen of Virginia (pummeled for his "macaca" gaffe), there would be calls for his head from every civil rights organization in the Beltway. While the Washington Post reported that Barry "apologized," he showed typical fake penitence for "offending" Asians and claimed he was "taken out of context."
By "Asian," he blubbered to a local TV reporter, he didn't mean "Asian." He really meant all "those persons (who) come into our community, whatever color they are; it happened to be Asian initially." Put the prejudice pipe down, buddy.
Instead of showing true remorse, Barry dug in deeper with even more divisive, entitled and militant us vs. them propaganda: "We're spending our money there, and we demand respect," he told the Washington Post. "We demand they participate in community affairs. We demand they give jobs to Ward 8 people regardless of their cultural situation. That's as American as apple pie."
Spoken like a true racial racketeer.
But Barry's not alone. His incendiary rhetoric echoes other liberal black leaders who have long made a sport of scapegoating Asian immigrant entrepreneurs across the country. Just this February, Jeffery Muhammad, the veteran Nation of Islam leader in Dallas, lashed out at Asian-American business owners for being "just the latest in a long line of people who have come to this country -- like Jews, Italians, Indians and now Asians -- who have sucked the blood of and exploited the black community."
Just a fringe sentiment, you say?
Rapper Ice Cube, now a mainstream actor and comedian, penned "Black Korea" to demonize Korean store owners in South Central Los Angeles:
So they watch every damn move that I make.
They hope I don't pull out a gat and try to rob
they funky little store, but b***h, I got a job.
... So don't follow me, up and down your market,
or your little chop suey ass'll be a target
of the nationwide boycott.
And Al Sharpton, now a prominent MSNBC host, was caught on tape stoking hatred against Chinese-owned chicken restaurants and Korean grocers:
"We're the black chicken friers of the universe. We gonna go buy some Col. Sanders chicken. Then the Chinamen comin' and (inaudible) ... Koreans sell us watermelons. We eat watermelons all our lives. But they gonna come cut it up, put it in a bucket with a rubber band around it, and we gonna buy it like it's somethin' and we didn't know what it was."
Few dare to call out black racism against Asians. Those who do are met with nasty racial epithets, of course. Last year, when I called attention to flash mobs of black assailants in Denver, Wisconsin, Philadelphia and New York who were explicitly targeting Asian students and elderly Asian women for brutal assaults, my e-mail box filled with vitriol:
"(D)oes your family still live in poverty? Not anymore, since you married into the tribe ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME GI."
"Shut up whore."
President Obama, commander-in-chief of post-racial America, was unavailable for comment.
The fact that people still vote for him tells me all I need to know about those people.
They have their own gang colors too. Mauve and Chartreuse are battling for control of the Fruit loop which is the local name for Dupont Circle, the place where they live.
I can't support Blacks as a group, while they keep reelecting that race baiting, POS, crack head, Mary ann Berry. What credibility as a group can you have when people like Marion Barry, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Van Jones, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and on and on and on..... are your leaders? Your heroes?
Asians can’t be tolerated in these communities. They prove that it’s not the neighborhood that leads to poverty, it the people. Once the people of these poor communities figure our that they could elevate themselves above poverty without the poverty pimps, it’s over for the democrats.
The REAL reason they hate Asians so is that the Asians show how totally helpless unproductive Holder’s People are. They come to this country with little or nothing, work hard, open up restaurants and stores, become wealthy all in the space of one generation.
There is a guy here that came over as a 14 year old during the Vietnam Boat People time and now he is a millionaire real estate developer.
Can’t have people like that showing others that people who have been here for hundreds of years are not really ‘economically disadvantaged’, now can we?..............
There are responsible, intelligent African Americans standing up to dopes like Barry, but they’re shouted down by the Al Sharptons. There is a part of the black community that is poorly educated, not very experienced in the real World, and who will accept whatever nonsense the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons give them.
What's that you say?...............
Best thing to do is to ignore this has-been.
Despite their constant ranting about racism when it is perceived to be directed at them, blacks are often vocal racists when it comes to Latino, Jews, and Asians.
And those who rant the loudest like Sharpton and Jesse (Hymietown) Jackson are hypocrites and worse.
You can find racism in all races and I doubt that any one race has a corner on ‘kum by yah’ feelings of good will toward all races.
Wrong! you are spending my money (not to mention the money looted from my grandchildren yet to be born)
If the Feds were not there, DC would have looked like today’s Detroit 20 years ago.
Bump
OK, fine. Clean them up and they'll STILL be making money and making the Sons of Barack (SOBs) look bad!
Blacks have always hated Asians.
Asians succeed where blacks fail, and Asians make no secret of their fear of and contempt for blacks.
Asians put blacks to shame and then don’t apologize for doing so.
Can’t have that!
Asian people have no time for all of that nonsense.
They are too busy running their businesses and making sure their kids are doing their homework.
"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican."
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather."
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl."
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!"
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man."
-- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
Chinese Americans are like the Jews. Blacks kick them in the ass all the time, and Dems support them. Yet Chinese and Jews vote for Dems over GOP. Jews do it because past country club GOP mistreated their rich grandparents at the country club and GOP coalition include Jesus loving Christians. The Chinese on the other hand don’t vote for GOP because the GOP is leery of their homeland of China. So in a nutshell, perceived threats from GOP are worst then real threats from Dem blacks. Talking about insanity!!???
When it no longer gets them dissed, cursed, shunned or physically threatened?
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