“The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell. We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity.”

— Marion Barry

May 24, 2012 http://archive.is/R6lWp
2010s

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American politician and former mayor of Washington, D.C. 1936–2014

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