Birds Of A Feather

Marion Barry, former mayor and current city council member of Washington D.C., convicted crackhead, and race pimp, is in the news again.

You may remember Barry from his 1990 arrest and subsequent trial for cocaine possession and use. There was even undercover video showing Barry taking hits off a crack pipe.

Barry was charged with three felony counts of perjury, 10 counts of misdemeanor drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine. The criminal trial ended in August 1990 with a conviction for only one possession incident, which had occurred in November 1989, and an acquittal on another. The jury hung on the remaining charges. Six or seven jurors (of whom two were white and the rest black) believed that the evidence against Barry was overwhelming and that he had displayed "arrogance" during the trial. Against these, five black jurors were convinced that the prosecution had falsified evidence and testimony as part of a racist conspiracy against Barry, and even disputed factual findings that had not been contested in court.

In other words, several black jurors ignored the evidence -- the uncontested, stipulated-to-by-the-defense evidence -- and voted based on race. Talk about foreshadowing 2008... but I digress.

Fast forward to May 2012.

When apologizing to the Asian community for comments he made last month, D.C. councilmember Marion Barry may have offended another minority group on Thursday: Polish people.

Barry was at a meeting with Asian-American advocacy groups at the Matthews Memorial Baptist Church where he was expected to apologize for comments he made at an election night victory party.

"We gotta do something about these Asians coming in, opening up these dirty shops," he said on April 3. "They got to go. I'll say that right now."

In his 'apology,' Barry said that other ethnic groups have experienced what he termed "tension."

"The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell," Barry said.

The word "Polack" is a derogatory term that describes people of Polish descent.

According to who?

I'm an American of Polish descent, and I am not offended by the term "Polack." (More on this in a subsequent post.)

I am, however, offended that a drug-using lying scumbag is involved in governing our nation's capital.

And that a drug-using lying scumbag is president of our country...

Future Leader of the Free World