Posted on 04/05/2012 11:34:04 AM PDT by grundle
Marion Barry is mostly refusing to back down from remarks Tuesday that Asian business owners in his ward “ought to go.”
Barry made the comments Tuesday night, at a party celebrating his landslide victory in the Democratic primary race for the D.C. Council seat he’s held since 2005.
WRC-TVcameras caught the remarks: “We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go, I’ll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”
Since then, outrage has mounted. One Facebook page appeared Wednesday, demanding that Barry apologize to the Asian community. By 1 p.m., it had more than 72 “likes.” One of his D.C. Council colleagues, Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), took to Twitter late Wednesday to decry the remarks as “deplorable.” Five suburban Maryland lawmakers of Asian descent — Democratic delegates Sam Arora, Kumar Barve, Susan Lee, Aruna Miller and Kris Valderrama — also called on Barry to apologize.
“At best, Mr. Barry’s attack on Asian Americans is deeply troubling, and at worst it is race baiting,” they said in a statement.
Asked why he singled out Asians in his remarks, Barry said, “Because that’s reality. Who owns these little restaurants? Who owns them? You know, Asians. . .Ninety percent of all the small restaurants in Ward 8, at least.”
He added, “We’re spending our money there, and we demand respect. 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.”
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Do you think there might be a small, tiny little chance that he could possibly be a racist?
suburban Maryland lawmakers of Asian descent — Democratic delegates Sam Arora, Kumar Barve, Susan Lee, Aruna Miller and Kris Valderrama — also called on Barry to apologize.
Too rich
They getting too “uppity” Barry?
Gee, Mr.Barry, those Asian small business owners are there because they’re willing to take risks, which it appears black small business owner’s are not willing to take on.
As for hiring Ward 8 residents to work in their businesses, perhaps it is because few if any residents apply for jobs, and when they do and are hired, do not show up for work regularly.
Of course, you could do the right thing Mr.Barry, and ask those Asian small business owners why they do not hire Ward 8 residents, but I suspect you can’t handle the truth.
Their racism.
Is it that these Asian-owned business don’t sell drugs in their back rooms or in the bathrooms, and Barry has to go such a long way to get his supplies? Or that Asian women
who work in these little businesses won’t date him?
I ask him WTF?
Well, Barry, in the spirit of infantile rhymes, of the type that helped free the doubler murderer Simpson, and so preferred by your arrogantly racist demographic, when it comes to honestly productive “Asians”:
EMULATE, do not eliminate.
Barry should clarify: He meant “White Asians”, like “White Hispanics”.
That’s the Zimbabwe way ,didn’t work out very well
Hey! That's my line! Al Sharpton (He got Freddy's Fashion Mart out of the brothers' neighborhood -- and about five white people off this planet!)
Barry is a clown, but Asians generally don’t hire outside their own race or culture. There may be perfectly good reasons not to, but I get tired of hearing about the employment that immigrants supposedly bring to America. It’s more like a chain migration family affair.
No one has ever asked the “diversity” if they celebrate “diversity.”
These Asian folks will be chargin' high prices and cheatin' your brothers -- just like the white folks have done.
Then like the 1960s when your brothers loot those stores the media will tell everybody they just gettin' their layaway items those high prices paid for. No crime. Just day-to-day retail stuff. You'll come out ahead of the game, man.
Mr. Barry, you REALLY dont want to start a dialog about reality. Demanding respect when there is nothing there TO respect and demanding that jobs be "given" based on race is not "American as apple pie."
But then again Mr. Barry, you have never impressed people with your displays of vast intellect.
What people HAVE seen is loser, failure and racist.
In short a run of the mill donk.
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This from the Crack head , Cannot pay taxes...Scumbag.
In Barry World, the only people of value are those that can jump and shoot hoops, oh, and loot.
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