Look at ward 8. Everybody sellin drugs, they cant get jobs. Yeah, im sayin marion barry helped create the problem because he was on drugs. Thats a bad role model. Barry barry barry were talking about a piece of history, folks, marion barry, Martin Luther king. Wave your hands, blow your horns, wave your hands, blow your horns. I met marion barry i think in 1968. He was taking a lot of chances. People werent taking chances durin that period. For a black guy, durin that period, you really had to have balls to do it. And he had em. When marion came to washington d. C. , he came into a sleepy southern town. White business, white political power, white everything ruled the city. The city was like a plantation. We didnt have elections. No mayor, no city council. We couldnt vote. Congress controlled d. C. Control of washington d. C. Was about one person, thats representative John Mcmillan of south carolina. He was a racist. And so that guided all of his politics. He used the district in ways
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