D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry is a longtime advocate of freeing the nation’s capital from “political slavery.”
Tweet if YOU believe in FREEDOM & ONE MAN/WOMAN ONE VOTE! How long are we gonna celebrate other people's freedom and not our own? #FREEDC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
So on Independence Day, instead of using his Twitter account to share images of “dirty” Asian businesses, Barry attempted to rally his followers to the “Free D.C.” cause … by telling them to put their “#$%!” hot dogs down.
Are we as apathatic as they say we are? Let me HEAR YOU if you believe in freedom 4 DC! Put the #$%! hot dog down & tweet 4 freedom in DC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
“Put the #$%! hot dog down” — the phrase that launched a revolution?
Have we grown to accept that we deserve less rights than other Americans? Tweet if YOU believe in FREEDOM for DC! #FREEDC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
@nycsouthpaw naw man….the paternalistic United States of America crown
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
Oh, and you know who’d have the (former?) crack-smoking, bitch-set-me-up councilman’s back while he topples that “paternalistic” crown? Frederick Douglass, natch.
"Are the great principles of political freedom..embodied in that Declaration of Independence extended to us?" Fred Douglass NO! #FREEDC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
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Er, sorry, Fred Douglass.
Fred. Like they were homies. RT @marionbarryjr: "This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." Fred Douglass #FREEDC!
— April (@ReignOfApril) July 4, 2012
He continued:
"I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of glorious anniversary!" Fred Douglass #FREEDC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
"The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me."F. Douglass
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
"This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn." Fred Douglass #FREEDC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
"The hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed." Frederick Douglass More than 600,000 people disenfranchised in the Nation's Capital! #FREEDC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
F. Douglass ends his inquiry into the meaning of the 4th of July w/Wm Lloyd Garrison, "Whate'er the peril or the cost,Be driven!" #FREEDC!
— Remembering Barry (@marionbarryjr) July 4, 2012
We’re wondering how the abolitionist leader would feel about having his words hijacked by a man who wanted to rid the country of the Filipino nurse menace.
I can't help thinking that if @marionbarryjr hadn't made DC a national joke, we'd be further along in our push for basic representation.
— ButTimKrepp (@timkrepp) July 4, 2012
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