Crazypants former D.C. mayor and current City Council member Marion Barry, who exactly five seconds ago was believed to be an ardent advocate of gay rights, threw all that good will into the smelter yesterday when he joined Bishop Harry "Armageddon" Jackson in a public protest against D.C.'s decision to recognize same-sex marriages from other states. You know, the piece of legislation Barry co-sponsored, but now says he never supported? Barry, who says he still believes in civil unions, rallied the crowd by chanting "Say no to same sex marriage in DC!" And that was after he declared, "I am a politician who's moral." But for all the headlines Barry's soundbite-ready speech is making, remember: This is not the craziest shit Barry has ever said.
Let's revisit some of the crazier speech bubbles from Barry, who, according to a reader, is telling anti-gay groups to "jam the council chamber" on May 5.
• "The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist."
• "I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less."
• "The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice."
• “There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths."
• "What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
• "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."
• "Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."
• "What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?"
• "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?"
• And of course, his most infamous: "Goddamn bitch set me up!"
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Wow!
When are these fools gonna learn that you do not fuck with the gay community and that you do not commit TREASON and go turncoat on the gay community?
I actually lived in DC while he was mayor (never had the opportunity to vote him out, however). I remember when we used to call wife #2 (Effi) a stupid bitch for thinking that we really believed the lies he (and she) told.
And yeah, I remember some of the quotes…
Let me stay out of the way of this thread
Is this crazy ass politician smoking crack again?
Would he have us repeal the law of gravity? Because as I get older it's a cause I could get behind.
Barry is so out of it, I wouldn't be shocked if the next thing he did was to start attacking the black community. I think the crack is finally finishing the job of eating away his brain.
Why is this psycho@ss still on the council?
How do dumb fucks like this even get elected???
Funniest thing Chris Rock ever did was when he talked about Marion Barry…
Quote from CR, speaking on African Americans in DC standing by Barry: "What power does this man have over them? I could understand if the whole town was on crack and he was the best crackhead in the town."
I still don't get this. Does he even have a brain, or is it just crack and physical abilities?
Wait a minute, I must be the one on crack now. Was the vote of the D.C. city council to recognize gay marriages preformed in other states not unanimous? WTF?!
Some good laughs to be found here, for sure!
I don't know how some people can stand up under the weight of their own stupidity.
that marion barry is just bananas! bananas!
@Paulied According to DCist, he wasn't there. But he did say, "If I had been, I would have voted 'no,'" so… watch out. Maybe he'll show up to future votes.
What a jackass. How did he get elected??!!
Next thing you know, he'll say he's white.
Well, there *is* a line in a Schoolhouse Rock song about gravity being there "to keep us in our place."…
@paulied: Barry was not present for the vote. He recently had a kidney transplant, so his health is a real excuse for missing work. However, he did sign as a co-introducer the marriage-recognition amendment. He later denied having signed it, and called it a staff error. but the Council Chairman Vince Gray confirmed that Barry did in fact sign it. Barry then said that his position is "evolving."
As to how he gets re-elected, well face-to-face, the man is charming and charismatic. He also has worked decades for decades to get people jobs, and a very large number of people feel they owe their jobs to him. He represents a very poor, under-educated area that has a super-majority of black voters. He has convinced them that he is standing up for them against the (mostly white)federal government that is out to get them. He gets arrested because, according to this propaganda, the government is targetting him to discredit him, and by extention, them.
@DCBob:
Marion Barry is so full of shit.
Kwame Kilpatrick played from that same playbook. So did Coleman Young (former mayor of Detroit).
The really nutty thing about Barry's recent anti- gay marriage remarks, is that HE IS CURRENTLY A CO-SPONSOR OF A GAY MARRIAGE BILL before the DC City Council. When the Washington Post asked him how he could rant against same sex marriage, yet be a sponsor of a bill to permit it, he said that his views have been evolving since he originally signed onto the legislation.
Why is anyone still listening to this ho' humpin' crack smokin' retard?!?!
@Tony:
STOP!
LOL!
Barry's position is that he supports civil unions, not marriage. This is the same position that many politicians take (including Obama). He says this to the crowd if you watch the video on YouTube of his speech.
I think Barry loves the attention he gets, and found the opportunity to address a crowd to be irresistible. He has lost the endorsement of the local democratic political organization, so he will pay a price for this. The local alternative newspaper interviewed members of the crowd afterwards and reported that of the ten people that were approached, not one of them was a DC resident. This fact will have major repercussions. In fact, there is little evidence that the voters in DC are upset with the Council's actions.
Also, it has been suggested that Harry Jackson, who organized this protest, is not very well liked in the African-American religious community. He is more interested in promoting himself and his role in right wing, Republican politics than he is in helping the African-American community. Also, his church is not in DC. (He is is like Marion Barry in that regard, he cannot resist the spotlight.) Some people view the demonstration earlier this week as doing more to help the measure than to hurt it. After all, it won't matter much if the measure passes 12-1 instead of 13-0, but if the FRC has aligned itself with a spokesperson who alienates the DC African-American religious community it does matter a lot. (A community that is most definitely not pro-Republican Party.)
Just say no to crack. Exhibit A: Marion Barry.
@Versatile:
This is almost right but I can't go into why at the moment. (Gotta pump out work, with a 1/2 hour to go.)
i despise marion barry!
This “moral leader” Marion Barry has taken amorality to new lows as he has been a notorious serial adulterer, smoked countless crack rocks, abused/shamed/divorced four wives, disgraced an entire city, and humiliated an entire race. Yet, he and his fellow church fools feel that he is morally superior to all homosexuals simply because he allegedly has never had sex with a man. Any random crack head scraped out of any generic crack house would be morally superior to Marion Barry!!!
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ditto!
i am a black lesbian who avoids black gaybashing churches like the ebola/swine flu virus!!!
this is further undeniable proof of the rabid black "holy" homohatred that blacked out prop 8 in cali!…
A sinfully blasphemous throng of buybull toting black hypochristians has actually allowed Marion Barry to publicly announce that he is a “moral leader” superior to every homosexual person on earth. These biblical liars and scientific morons actually believe that the infamously amoral, vulgar, and crack addicted Marion Barry is a “moral leader” simply because he is allegedly heterosexual.
This “moral leader” Marion Barry has taken amorality to new lows as he has been a notorious serial adulterer, smoked countless crack rocks, abused/shamed/divorced four wives, disgraced an entire city, and humiliated an entire race. Yet, he and his fellow church fools feel that he is morally superior to all homosexuals simply because he allegedly has never had sex with a man. Any random crack head scraped out of any generic crack house would be morally superior to Marion Barry!!!
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http://aliciabanks.blogspot.com
peace
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