Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Marion Barry doubles down

Former Washington, DC mayor, and current city councilman, Marion Barry, not only wants to get rid of Asian shopkeepers, but thinks we could do with fewer Filipino nurses, too.
“In fact, it’s so bad, that if you go to the hospital now, you find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly from the Philippines,” Barry said. “And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses — and so that we don’t have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of places — having to hire people from somewhere else.”
Is this part of that racial discussion that Eric Holder said we were too cowardly to have?

3 comments:

smitty1e said...

Apropos Barry, did you see this?

Paco said...

I did, and there was something so incongruous about Marion Barry being interviewed by Reason - or perhaps just the appearance of the words "Marion Barry" and "Reason" - in the same sentence, that I laughed out loud!

Minicapt said...

So, apparently, more so than the president, he's a black Barry.

Cheers