D.C. Council is racist, sexist, blah blah blah
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/09/AR2009100903933.html?wprss=rss_metro/dc
You know the drill. Hispanic woman doesn't get what she wants, says it's because everyone hates her since she's a minority, it's an insult to Hispanics everywhere, blah blah blah.
In interviews with The Washington Post and Spanish-language TV stations, Hartsock accused the council of showing disrespect for the city's growing Hispanic population.
"I was mistreated," Hartsock said. "Not only me, but my entire heritage. . . . There is nothing worse than creating a precedent for injustice."
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At Hartsock's confirmation hearing Oct. 2, council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) was quoted as saying that she wasn't qualified for the job because she didn't understand African American culture.
"If Marion Barry was a white person and I was a black person, there would be riots in the streets right now," Hartsock said Friday.
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Harry Thomas Jr. (D-Ward 5), chairman of the council's parks and recreation committee, lobbied against Hartsock and defended the council vote. He said Friday that Hartsock "just wasn't up to the job."
"I don't think the full [Hispanic] community is behind this," Thomas said. "These are just Hartsock supporters trying to create an issue where there is none. . . . This has nothing to do with ethnicity. It's about her inability to perform."
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