It's such a shame that the same security apparatus that worked together with Mayor Richard Daley's jackbooted thugs to lynch Fred Hampton for being an effective civil rights leader who reached across racial lines to promote economic solidarity then launched a vendetta against and entrapped popular three-term DC Mayor Marion Berry for thumbing his nose at their outdated and paternalistic attitudes and policies. The security apparatus has always longed for a return to the days when DC was paternalistically at best ruled by an obscure House committee long populated by good old boy bigots like John McMillan, who once sent a truckload of watermelons in response when DC's first appointed Mayor-Commissioner had the audacity to properly send a budget proposal to Congress. McMillan was finally primaried when DC's first non-voting House representative used his franking privilege to rally civil rights supporters against him. "Johnny Mac ain't coming back!" Walter Fauntroy crowed. McMillan retorted, "The colored people were bought out."
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