Marion Barry: We Need to Get Rid of the Asians

By Douglas V. Gibbs

. . . and the hard left accuses the right of being racist?

Just after yet another decisive electoral victory, D.C. Councilman Marion Barry is once again embroiled in controversy, this time for remarks disparaging Asian-owned businesses in his poor, majority-black ward.

At his primary election victory party Tuesday, Barry said: "We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. ... They ought to go. I'm going to say that right now. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too."

Then again, I remember Bill Clinton saying of Obama during the campaign, "A few years ago this guy would have been serving me coffee."

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson's racism is legendary.

Representative Dick Gephardt, D-MO: Gephardt, the former Democrat Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke before the Metro South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization, during his early years as a congressman.

When it came to the Civil Rights Act, Republicans favored civil rights in approximately 96% of the votes, whereas the Democrats opposed them in 80% of the votes!

"You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent." -Senator Joe Biden

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." -- Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler's Book, "Inside The White House"

Senator Harry Reid, a key figure in pushing Obama’s agenda through Congress, was forced to apologize to the president over remarks published in a new book calling Obama a “light-skinned” black man “with no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.”

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

Barry apologizes for comment on Asian businesses - Associated Press