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Marion Barry commits new gaffe while apologizing to Asians
WP ^ | May 24, 2012

Posted on 06/21/2012 6:25:29 PM PDT by Milagros

Marion Barry commits new gaffe while apologizing to Asians‎ Washington PostMay 24, 2012 D.C. Council member Marion Barry stepped up his campaign on Thursday to mend relations with the Asian community, apologizing again for disparaging remarks he made about Koreans and Filipinos and pledging to work to improve ties between them and African Americans...

Representatives of the Korean, Filipino, Chinese and Japanese communities attended the meeting, held at a church in Southeast Washington. Asked later about his reference to “Polacks,” Barry at first denied using the word, then retracted it, saying, “I meant Poles.”

His remark prompted a demand from Gary Kenzer, executive director of the Chicago-based Polish American Association, that Barry “apologize to the Polish American community of this country.”

.. that Barry “apologize to the Polish American community of this country.” ...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: africanamericans; antiasian; apologizing; asian; asians; barry; blacks; chicago; commits; democrats; gaffe; il; liberalracism; marionbarry; new; polish; polishamarricans; racism
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1 posted on 06/21/2012 6:25:41 PM PDT by Milagros
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Whenever African American liberal racism against Whites erupts. There is a total numbness in CNN...


2 posted on 06/21/2012 6:27:33 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Milagros
>"pledging to work to improve ties between them and African Americans"

Is he gonna have Sharptongue only provoke the mobs to beat, and not murder them at the next riot?

3 posted on 06/21/2012 6:27:55 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Milagros; Bender2

Bitch set me up


4 posted on 06/21/2012 6:28:31 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: big'ol_freeper; rawcatslyentist

Farrakhan + Sharpton = “legitimization” of anti-White racism.


5 posted on 06/21/2012 6:32:50 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Milagros

6 posted on 06/21/2012 6:33:03 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Should Obama recuse himself from making any decisions on immigration?)
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To: big'ol_freeper

Let’s just turn this around to see how it sounds: “Niggers, I mean, African Americans...”. Doesn’t work does it?


7 posted on 06/21/2012 6:35:51 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Milagros

Back on cocaine again ??? Just another text book DemocRAT.
Always in the gutter, never on the sidewalk. Always the problem, never the solution.

DemocRats — what would our country be like without them??


8 posted on 06/21/2012 6:36:20 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Milagros

What’s wrong with the word “Polack”? In Polish, the word, spelled “Polak,” means a Polish man (”Polka” is the female counterpart).


9 posted on 06/21/2012 6:37:05 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: tsowellfan

A tourist told me today, I am not for Rep. Or for Dem. but what I saw on the news how Mr. Holder and Obama behaved, their arrogance is so ugly...


10 posted on 06/21/2012 6:38:42 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Fiji Hill

It’s not the word.. It’s the TONE he said that.


11 posted on 06/21/2012 6:39:38 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Milagros

Excuse me if it appears that I have low confidence in the intelligence of the American people with this question but... whose arrogance?


12 posted on 06/21/2012 6:41:35 PM PDT by tsowellfan (Should Obama recuse himself from making any decisions on immigration?)
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To: Milagros

When Stalin headed the Soviet Union, he regularly got 98% of the vote.


13 posted on 06/21/2012 6:45:28 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: tsowellfan

The German tourist I spoke to spoke of Obama and Holder, she was watching the hearings...


14 posted on 06/21/2012 6:45:38 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Cicero

Yup. So does Mahmoud EIchmannJihad of Tehran.


15 posted on 06/21/2012 6:47:04 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: Milagros

Seriously, I have to laugh at all this idiocy. Hypocrisy and the self-proclaimed “leaders” of ethnic “communities.” None of whom realistically represent the rank-and-file yet they claim to “speak” for all others. Such nonsense, and to even think they could have a pow-wow with a jacksass like Barry is even more hilarious.

And for a resident of DC to even speak of someone else’s place being “dirty” is a real killer. I wonder when she’s next volunteering for trash pick-up duty in the hood.


17 posted on 06/21/2012 6:50:37 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Free the Zimmermans. . . end this political, racist travesty of a "prosecution")
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It’s not the word.. It’s the TONE he said that.

The tone seems to reflect his attitude toward Poland--from cancelling the ABM system to the "Polish death camps" remark. Here's hoping that those of the Polish diaspora living in the US take notice.

18 posted on 06/21/2012 6:57:19 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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And for a resident of DC to even speak of someone else’s place being “dirty” is a real killer. I wonder when she’s next volunteering for trash pick-up duty in the hood...


Ditto


19 posted on 06/21/2012 6:57:39 PM PDT by Milagros (Y)
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To: EagleUSA
The man's in his 70s ~ so some deterioration is expected ~ and people who are polite keep their mouths shut about it.

On the other hand the DC council, of which Barry is a member, wants to spend $200 million on a 14 mile stretch of trolly car that will take 2000 people, per day, on average, from wealthier parts of DC to the "Chinatown' section ~ which is pret' much nothing but Chinese restaurants. Like, in the DC area the Chinese are smart and live in the suburbs like all the other smart people.

$200 million!!!!!

2000 riders!!!!!

Barry is against this trolly ~ which proves all his acuity isn't gone ~ but it also proves that the rest of the Board consists of people who are very stupid.

20 posted on 06/21/2012 7:17:05 PM PDT by muawiyah
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