December 5, 2014

Listen: “We Come To Bury Marion Barry. Not To Praise Him.”

By Erica Hendry

Kojo opened the Dec. 5 Politics Hour  — the first after the death of former Mayor and D.C. Council member Marion Barry — with a riff on Shakespeare’s famous prose in “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.”

“We come to bury Marion Barry, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones,” he begins.

Friday was the second of the three-day service planned for Barry, who spent more than 41 years in various roles in D.C. government.

“Those among us who have been critical of him — and who among us hasn’t? — will pause to respect that on the Politics Hour.”

Listen to the full clip below.

You can also listen here to Kojo reflect on his relationship with Marion Barry. 

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