THE ROOT DC: Barry calls Ward 8 ‘ghetto’

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Photo courtesy Washington City Paper

Excerpt:

Okay, we get it. There is still plenty of work to do in our Ward. But it doesn’t help one bit for our elected leaders to use such flip language. I was burglarized when I lived on Capitol Hill and in Anacostia. Council member Barry is always talking about the new Ward 8 and all the things that are happening for the better. But his tone in this case could have come from an outsider who doesn’t know better. He does.

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