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Just as we thought we were in the clear from Councilmember Marion Barry’s recent flap over his election-night comments about Asian-owned businesses in Ward 8, Reason breathed new life into the story when it sent Kennedy—yes, she of MTV back in the day—to grill Barry on what he said.

On April 3, basking in an overwhelming victory in the Democratic primary in which he clinched himself a third term as the representative from Ward 8, Barry told a crowd of supporters he was troubled by the prevalence of carry-out restaurants in his part of D.C.:

We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops. They ought to go, I’ll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.

Barry spent much of the following week walking back his statement and eventually made an appearance with a Korean business person he deemed was running a “good Asian” establishment.

Still, in the video Kennedy wants to know why Barry said it at all. Fair question, and Barry, in his own way, does try to explain that he was attempting to paint cultural differences between various ethnic groups. But like many outsiders’ approaches on Barry, if not all of D.C.’s local politics, Kennedy can’t help but fixate on the former mayor’s 1990 famous utterance, “Bitch set me up” in an FBI operation that sent him to prison for six months on charges of crack cocaine possession and use. The two incidents, separated by 22 years and several eras of D.C. history, are completely unrelated, to say nothing of the fact that Reason, best we can tell, has generally advocated for the relaxing of anti-drug enforcement policies.

Barry told Kennedy he has moved past the kerfuffle over his comments about Asian-owned businesses. But looks like Reason is just arriving at the story.