Marion Barry: Let's get rid of Filipino nurses along with those 'dirty' Asian shops

Wait, hold on … Councilman Marion Barry said something offensive about Asians in Washington, D.C.? Inconceivable!

https://twitter.com/#!/lydiadepillis/status/194469060761751553

Apparently it’s not just “dirty” Asian businesses that “ought to go.” Now it’s Filipino nurses too.

https://twitter.com/#!/ChasRoades/status/194761169557405696

Barry made his xenophobic remarks about immigrant nurses—especially those from the Philippines—at a University of the District of Columbia budget hearing on Monday. From the Washington Examiner:

“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.”

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Normally Barry would be on Twitter flaunting his racism and digging himself into an even deeper hole, but his account is silent this week. Maybe he misplaced his Twitter shovel?