Posted on 05/25/2012 10:12:28 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry says he misspoke when he referred to the Polish community with the disparaging term "Polacks."
Barry made the remark when he was meeting with Asian-Americans.
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Oh brother...another group upset. Big Deal. People from Poland, buck up. Sheesh what a country full of weaklings.
It’s not Barry’s fault. He was probably high on crack at the time.
“Asian b******s set me up!”
I am sure the media will be all over this.
Barry is getting old. Folks should just lay off. This is not the Marion Barry we’ve known in years past.
So, will he now hold a meeting with Polish-Americans, and refer to the Asians as “Chinks”? Or maybe he’ll start in on the “Wops” this time?
He’s a walking ethnic gaffe machine.
Turn your brain on.
It's called "holding them to their own standard". You know perfectly well what would happen to Senator Lisa Murkowski if she (for example) were to accidentally say "nigger". She'd be pilloried, assaulted, hounded from office ... all for offending the perpetually offended ...
Like, for example ...
Perpetually Offended Councilman Marion "you're all racists" Barry.
I think it's absolutely hilarious that Ol' Crackpipe Barry can't seem to help making racially derogatory comments ... including using racially derogatory words ... and he's being held (sort of) accountable for it.
I love the term ‘misspoke’ that politicians seem to be using a lot more these days. I would like to go in and tell my boss what I really think of him and then the next day when I am on the verge of being fired simply say, “I am sorry I misspoke.” Everything would then go back to normal in a couple of days right?? Right?
Careful... The MEDIA is reporting that Barry’s words are somehow offensive to Polish people.
Please do not get tricked up by this, and think that Polish people are somehow all worked up by the crackhead’s comments.
(That being said, I did hear on the radio one D.C.-based Polish “spokeswoman” declare how awful it was that Barry used the term Pollack. )
I’m sending Marion a copy of the book DIVERSITY FOR DUMMIES.
Bullcrap. It's exactly the Marion Barry we've all known, loathed, and laughed at for decades. He's just as stupid, racist, socialist, incoherent, inarticulate and incompetent as he has always been, and he's still the perfect representative of his constituency.
~ Larry Elder, "The Ten Things You Can't Say In America"
“...He was probably high on crack at the time...”
Must be nice to go through life stoned all the time.
Must be lefty Pollacks - us conservative Pollacks ain't so thin skinned. When growing up, and Polish jokes were the rage, I had the biggest repretoir of anyone I knew. How many Pollacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb - three, one to hold the bulb and two to turn the ladder.
What did the Pollack say when picking up a dime - I thought my relatives had married all these off; a ten-cent piece...
One thing my Father taught me was that if you couldn't laugh at yourself, you were severely lacking in life skills and were likely to be humorless and bitter (kind of like Dims). In fact, he was willing to laugh at anyone until they developed the habit for themselves - some never did, but no great loss...
I am part Polish and PROUD of it. I don’t mind being called a polack one bit!!! I am still an AMERICAN first!
I’v had a few polish friends in my life and they never were offended if I called them a Polack. I’m sure Marion calling them Polacks was in a derogatory way. I very much resent you calling all the people of Poland a “country full of weaklings”.They are not. Just like the United States, the Polish people as a whole don’t agree with what their politicians do.
He no longer has his prostate gland ~ and just doesn’t “get around” like he used to. We see the guy on local news more often than you do and he’s simply burned out ~ BTW, he used to be the sort of guy you’d want to throw a party. Hasn’t been that way for a good 15 years, and now he’s clearly in his end times.
I am part Polish. A gradndfather (mother’s side) was originally from Poland. And who tells the most Polish jokes? Us Polacks!
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