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To: Lane3 who wrote (1792)	3/8/2002 12:09:51 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

After the Second Coming? Those folks in the Central Valley have more sense than our political elite. At the core of Marion Barry's quest for political revival are true believers like Benjy Little. In Barry's four terms as mayor, he funded Little's recreation center, employed his parents and gave him a series of summer jobs. Ah, Mayor Daley would have loved his son Marion. The gist of his campaign message emerged quickly that day. Barry spoke again and again of "a void" in government, with no one speaking out for issues he's long championed: summer jobs, housing, help for seniors and the downtrodden. He lamented the flight of African Americans to Prince George's County, which he attributed to a shortage of affordable housing. Demolib pinheadism at its best. "Let's keep these people poor, ignorant, and dependent on the government or who's going to vote for me?" As the birthday party wound down, the politics of race found their way into the conversation. In an interview, Barry warned that "unqualified white people" were getting jobs in city government over qualified blacks. And he said the 13-member D.C. Council, with its one-vote white majority, should become majority-black again. "The city council ought to reflect the demographics of the city," Barry said. "If the city's majority-black, it makes sense the city council ought to be majority-black." Racism at its finest. Good find, Karen.