Marion Barrys mouth set him up. The disgraced former mayor of Washington D.C. who was caught on tape in a 1987 crack cocaine sting made an even bigger disgrace of himself and his city on Tuesday. Celebrating a Democratic primary victory the city councilman attacked small businesses owned by Asians in his district. Then the race-baiting clown doubled down.
Barry told supporters in D.C.s Ward 8: We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go. Once pushed out Barry promised he would replace the foreign invaders with African-American business people. Barry then took to the social networking platform Twitter to expound on the perils of dirty Asian shops in his neighborhood.
As documented by my Twitter curation start-up Twitchy.com Barry posted photos of supposedly hazardous stores -- including Chinese restaurants surrounded not by trash or toxic waste but by Plexiglas barriers and reinforced doors. Barry explained that Asian-owned businesses that had the audacity to protect themselves from crime were lowering standards in his constituents communities.
In Barrys bizarre world law-abiding entrepreneurs who take steps to prevent robberies are the ones who threaten Ward 8s quality of life -- not the armed thugs who threaten honest livelihoods in the first place. Vigilant wealth creators taking care of their families? Scourge of D.C. Profanity-spewing drug addicts inciting hatred against successful achievers of the American Dream? Model citizens!
Crazy Barry doesnt just need another round of rehab. He needs a reality check.
As a commenter on DCist.com noted 2010 Census data showed that Asians made up 0.4 percent of the Ward 8 population (blacks made up 93.5 percent a 1 percent increase from 2000). If anything Asians are moving out not in -- the Asian population decreased 13.6 percent (from 301 people to 260 people) between 2000 and 2010. Meanwhile the child poverty rate in Ward 8 sits at 48.3 percent a 1.2 percent increase since 2000 -- in contrast the Districts overall child poverty rate decreased 3 percent since 2000. Now thats what I call defying the odds.
If Barrys ignorant slurs had come out of the mouth of say former GOP Gov. George Allen of Virginia (pummeled for his macaca gaffe) there would be calls for his head from every civil rights organization in the Beltway. While the Washington Post reported that Barry apologized he showed typical fake penitence for offending Asians and claimed he was taken out of context.
By Asian he blubbered to a local TV reporter he didnt mean Asian. He really meant all those persons (who) come into our community whatever color they are; it happened to be Asian initially. Put the prejudice pipe down buddy.
Instead of showing true remorse Barry dug in deeper with even more divisive entitled and militant us vs. them propaganda: Were spending our money there and we demand respect he told the Washington Post. We demand they participate in community affairs. We demand they give jobs to Ward 8 people regardless of their cultural situation. Thats as American as apple pie.
Spoken like a true racial racketeer.
But Barrys not alone. His incendiary rhetoric echoes other liberal black leaders who have long made a sport of scapegoating Asian immigrant entrepreneurs across the country. Just this February Jeffery Muhammad the veteran Nation of Islam leader in Dallas lashed out at Asian-American business owners for being just the latest in a long line of people who have come to this country -- like Jews Italians Indians and now Asians -- who have sucked the blood of and exploited the black community.
Just a fringe sentiment you say?
Rapper Ice Cube now a mainstream actor and comedian penned Black Korea to demonize Korean store owners in South Central Los Angeles:
So they watch every damn move that I make.
They hope I dont pull out a gat and try to rob
they funky little store but b***h I got a job.
... So dont follow me up and down your market
or your little chop suey assll be a target
of the nationwide boycott.
And Al Sharpton now a prominent MSNBC host was caught on tape stoking hatred against Chinese-owned chicken restaurants and Korean grocers:
Were the black chicken friers of the universe. We gonna go buy some Col. Sanders chicken. Then the Chinamen comin and (inaudible) ... Koreans sell us watermelons. We eat watermelons all our lives. But they gonna come cut it up put it in a bucket with a rubber band around it and we gonna buy it like its somethin and we didnt know what it was.
Few dare to call out black racism against Asians. Those who do are met with nasty racial epithets of course. Last year when I called attention to flash mobs of black assailants in Denver Wisconsin Philadelphia and New York who were explicitly targeting Asian students and elderly Asian women for brutal assaults my e-mail box filled with vitriol:
(D)oes your family still live in poverty? Not anymore since you married into the tribe ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME GI.
Shut up whore.
President Obama commander-in-chief of post-racial America was unavailable for comment.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
Marion Barrys mouth set him up. The disgraced former mayor of Washington D.C. who was caught on tape in a 1987 crack cocaine sting made an even bigger disgrace of himself and his city on Tuesday. Celebrating a Democratic primary victory the city councilman attacked small businesses owned by Asians in his district. Then the race-baiting clown doubled down.
Barry told supporters in D.C.s Ward 8: We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go. Once pushed out Barry promised he would replace the foreign invaders with African-American business people. Barry then took to the social networking platform Twitter to expound on the perils of dirty Asian shops in his neighborhood.
As documented by my Twitter curation start-up Twitchy.com Barry posted photos of supposedly hazardous stores -- including Chinese restaurants surrounded not by trash or toxic waste but by Plexiglas barriers and reinforced doors. Barry explained that Asian-owned businesses that had the audacity to protect themselves from crime were lowering standards in his constituents communities.
In Barrys bizarre world law-abiding entrepreneurs who take steps to prevent robberies are the ones who threaten Ward 8s quality of life -- not the armed thugs who threaten honest livelihoods in the first place. Vigilant wealth creators taking care of their families? Scourge of D.C. Profanity-spewing drug addicts inciting hatred against successful achievers of the American Dream? Model citizens!
Crazy Barry doesnt just need another round of rehab. He needs a reality check.
As a commenter on DCist.com noted 2010 Census data showed that Asians made up 0.4 percent of the Ward 8 population (blacks made up 93.5 percent a 1 percent increase from 2000). If anything Asians are moving out not in -- the Asian population decreased 13.6 percent (from 301 people to 260 people) between 2000 and 2010. Meanwhile the child poverty rate in Ward 8 sits at 48.3 percent a 1.2 percent increase since 2000 -- in contrast the Districts overall child poverty rate decreased 3 percent since 2000. Now thats what I call defying the odds.
If Barrys ignorant slurs had come out of the mouth of say former GOP Gov. George Allen of Virginia (pummeled for his macaca gaffe) there would be calls for his head from every civil rights organization in the Beltway. While the Washington Post reported that Barry apologized he showed typical fake penitence for offending Asians and claimed he was taken out of context.
By Asian he blubbered to a local TV reporter he didnt mean Asian. He really meant all those persons (who) come into our community whatever color they are; it happened to be Asian initially. Put the prejudice pipe down buddy.
Instead of showing true remorse Barry dug in deeper with even more divisive entitled and militant us vs. them propaganda: Were spending our money there and we demand respect he told the Washington Post. We demand they participate in community affairs. We demand they give jobs to Ward 8 people regardless of their cultural situation. Thats as American as apple pie.
Spoken like a true racial racketeer.
But Barrys not alone. His incendiary rhetoric echoes other liberal black leaders who have long made a sport of scapegoating Asian immigrant entrepreneurs across the country. Just this February Jeffery Muhammad the veteran Nation of Islam leader in Dallas lashed out at Asian-American business owners for being just the latest in a long line of people who have come to this country -- like Jews Italians Indians and now Asians -- who have sucked the blood of and exploited the black community.
Just a fringe sentiment you say?
Rapper Ice Cube now a mainstream actor and comedian penned Black Korea to demonize Korean store owners in South Central Los Angeles:
So they watch every damn move that I make.
They hope I dont pull out a gat and try to rob
they funky little store but b***h I got a job.
... So dont follow me up and down your market
or your little chop suey assll be a target
of the nationwide boycott.
And Al Sharpton now a prominent MSNBC host was caught on tape stoking hatred against Chinese-owned chicken restaurants and Korean grocers:
Were the black chicken friers of the universe. We gonna go buy some Col. Sanders chicken. Then the Chinamen comin and (inaudible) ... Koreans sell us watermelons. We eat watermelons all our lives. But they gonna come cut it up put it in a bucket with a rubber band around it and we gonna buy it like its somethin and we didnt know what it was.
Few dare to call out black racism against Asians. Those who do are met with nasty racial epithets of course. Last year when I called attention to flash mobs of black assailants in Denver Wisconsin Philadelphia and New York who were explicitly targeting Asian students and elderly Asian women for brutal assaults my e-mail box filled with vitriol:
(D)oes your family still live in poverty? Not anymore since you married into the tribe ME LOVE YOU LONG TIME GI.
Shut up whore.
President Obama commander-in-chief of post-racial America was unavailable for comment.
Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010).
