PROBABLY COULDN’T AFFORD SNIGGER KEVIN HART OR STEVE HARVEY TO SELL ITS MEDIOCRE MENU. From [HERE] The family of late Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, along with other members of the community, have spoken out against a new dessert sold at a pizza chain as the advertising for the berry-filled knots nods toward being named after the mayor who served over four non-consecutive terms between 1979 and 1998.

The pizza chain, &pizza, with locations in Washington, Maryland, Virginia, New York City, New Jersey and Philadelphia, did not directly state that its “Marion Berry Knots” menu item is named after the former mayor, who died on Nov. 23, 2014. But it recycled a version of the 1992 slogan he used to win a seat on the D.C. Council in an Oct. 21. Instagram reel.

His slogan was “He May Not Be Perfect, But He’s Perfect for D.C.,” and &pizza says its new menu item “may not be the perfect dessert, but they’re the perfect dessert for D.C.,” Fox5 DC reported.

&pizza describes its limited-time dessert item as “doughy dessert knots” that “are stuffed with deliciously sweet marionberries and topped with a creamy vanilla icing drizzle.”

“Our new Marion Berry Knots will blow you away,” the chain captioned a post featuring a video of its customers with the powdered sugar-topped dessert knots.

The advertisement shared online for the chain’s dessert has influenced outrage as Barry’s family and local activists have spoken out against &pizza and its new dessert.

Protesters took to the business on Wednesday demanding an apology, according to NBC Washington. People also splashed orange paint on the business and broke all the windows.

Marion’s widow, Cora Masters Barry, had one thing to say about &pizza’s dessert and advertisement tactics.

“I just think it’s racist,” she told D.C. News Now. “In this city, it is outrageously racist. You can print that. It’s racist and disrespectful.”

BML Public Relations, which handles publicity for the chain, has released information to DC News Now explaining: “For a good time, it’s the powder that’s the ultimate headline grabber. The Marion Berry Knots have enough powdered sugar that will have customers bumping elbows to order and even force the DEA to look twice.”

The ad alluded to Barry being arrested in a high-profile FBI sting operation for possession of crack cocaine in 1990 at the conclusion of a long-running investigation into rumors about his lifestyle.

THE GRAVAMEN OF RACISM IS MASTER-SERVANT RELATIONS NOT HATRED. Marion S. Barry Jr., a sharecropper’s son and civil rights pioneer who became a flamboyant and polarizing mayor of Washington, went to prison on drug possession charges and then recaptured City Hall in one of the most improbable comebacks in the history of American politics, died at the age of 78.

He underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1995, had a kidney transplant in 2009 and was treated for high blood pressure, diabetes and anemia. White supremacy/racism was probably the real cause of his death. 

Elected mayor four times — in 1978, 1982, 1986 and 1994 — Mr. Barry left the mayor’s office for good early in 1999 and then worked as an investment banker. But politics was never far from his mind. In 2004 he was elected to the District of Columbia Council from a hard-pressed section in Southeast Washington, a district he represented until his death.

Before there was Trump, there was Marion. Elite racists and their media and authorities spent substantial resources and time on removing Barry from office. The mainstream media and especially local media, Washington Post, City Paper, NBC, ABC and CBS functioned as “single source propaganda” trashing Barry on a regular basis (see photo above - an actual front page City Paper). They were obsessed with Barry’s every word and action - obsessed and lathered up in their overt hatred of him. Elites apparently were stunned when the black votary elected him despite their efforts.

Racists love to discuss his cocaine possession episode, it is important to them. Marion Barry's possession of crack essentially led to a federal (elite white people) takeover/control board of D.C. [MORE]  On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested in a sting operation by the FBI and D.C. Police for crack cocaine use and possession. Barry was charged with three felony counts of perjury, 10 counts of drug possession, and one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to possess cocaine. The criminal trial ended with a conviction for only one count of possession, which had occurred in November 1989, and an acquittal on another. That is, he was not convicted of any charges from the infamous hotel incident. But never mind the actual result, it was and still is a big, big deal to the elite white media. He was sentenced to 6 months in jail in what was essentially a revenge episode for white liberals, angry about the unfiltered Barry's efforts to relieve the suffering of Black people in this system of oppression.