Barry Called Her A “Black Bitch!”
September 10, 2023
By NZB3
Evidently Dunedin City is not free of the Social Crisis that is literally unraveling the Western World right now. Of course not. We don’t talk about fixing bridges or saving lives or curing disease or winning wars these days- It’s all about the battle for Rightful Conduct. Dunedin City Council Deputy Mayor Sophie Barker (who I was just corresponding with) is in the thick of it.
Barker agrees with me that the Liberal Government of the 1890s created her Dunedin Railway Station at our expense in order to impress us. And, keeps taxing us to maintain it. Good for her.
The lavish Station has had a bit of this taxpayer money spend upon it once again recently and Deputy Sophie popped up for an inspection. I joked that she was also going up to the top of the clocktower to check for racial slurs! This is because a guy named Barry has gotten himself in hot water down in Dunedin for being mean in a pub and Sophie is part of the pile-on that is griping our Caledonian Capital.
My main point is that this sort of bickering and public scrapping about personal conduct is way out of proportion to the usual these days. It’s on par with that Spanish soccer boss being roasted and fired and attacked and cancelled for smooching one of his star athletes in the heat of the moment during a hug session. Ref. Spain’s High Court prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into whether national soccer chief Luis Rubiales might have committed an act of sexual aggression when he grabbed player Jenni Hermoso and kissed her on the lips after Spain’s victory in the women’s World Cup, Reuters
We would, aspirationally, like to think that our elected political staff would do better than the Spanish. That, they would have a quiet talk with each other about good behavior and sort it out as a team. The way a soccer or rugby team might, in-house. Or the loyal crew of a ship. But, no. That’s not how it works in politics. They’re not friends, they’re Frenimies at best. Out to exploit and stab at each other with power on the line. Bloodsports. It may be that even someone as clued up about Socialist Railway Architecture as Deputy Sophie Barker is trying to hurt her Mayor in order to gain a promotion.
In brief, the front-page news in Dunedin is as follows.
Barry, a Community Board Chair, allegedly had his order muffed up at the pub. Seemingly a pub owned by the Community Board (is there nothing The State doesn’t think it shouldn’t run as a socialist enterprise?) For this, Barry called the suposed perpetrator a “stupid black bitch.” I don’t think we know if he announced this in the pub to his friend, in the town square while ringing a bell, or to a traitorous wife in bed later that night. At any rate, it betrays an unjust lens through which to focus one’s irritation and Barry should be disappointed with himself and want to fix that. A gentle word from a mate like the Mayor Jules Radich or Deputy Sophie or even his boss Tom Ruddenklau ought to sort it all out and he grows as a person.
Are we going to do that in 2023? Hell no.
Deputy mayor Sophie Barker and Cr Jim O’Malley submitted the complaint to Dunedin City Council chief executive Sandy Graham yesterday….Mr Radich described a racial slur used by Strath Taieri Community Board chairman Barry Williams as ‘‘a relatively minor thing’’. It has since emerged Mr Williams called a Strath Taieri Hotel worker a ‘‘stupid black b . . . . ’’ after she mixed up a food order…Williams also faced condemnation from his employer, Power Farming, with its chief executive, Tom Ruddenklau, flying down for a meeting with him yesterday after saying he was ‘‘really disappointed’’. – Complaint against mayor, ODT (9 September, 2023)
Sophie and Cr. Jim went after Mayor Radich for not being hard enough on Barry. Now Sandy the CEO is going after Radich too. So is the Otago Daily Times.
Remember, Radich isn’t the one who kissed soccer girls in Spain or called anybody a “black bitch.” That was Barry. Radich is in trouble for not also going all Dog Whistle and helping to Cancel Barry like a good On-Message NPC (Non-Player Character) Mayor is supposed to.
Meanwhile, Barry’s boss at his day job (Power Farming) flew all the way down to Dunedin’s airport and rented a car so he could go and tell Barry that he’s “really disappointed” about that thing he said in a pub!
What a bloody circus it all is having all this fire and energy and flights and press coverage and CEO investigations because of a cruel personal remark about something that happened in the pub! You must wonder who “Stupid Black Bitch” is, the Jenni Hermoso of this scenario, and if she really couldn’t solve this inter-personal problem without it escalating to the highest municipal and professional level?
SBB is missing out on a world of publicity here. Nobody knew who Jenni was but thanks to her making a Social Justice issue out of an interpersonal problem her profile has rocketed. I bet that Woke old Feminist Megan Rapinoe soccer player from the USA is furious about not being the biggest ball-kicking Victim in sport now. Instead of cashing in, the SBB’s real or supposed cause is being taken out of Barry’s hide and used to lift the politicians feeding off of his error.
Barry might just lose his day job and his Chairmanship and even seat on the Strath Taieri Community Board. Maybe the Bank of New Zealand will cancel his bank account if he’s their client as they tried to do to the farmers at Gloriavale simply for not being above suspicion. Ref. BNZ has been told it has to keep banking for Gloriavale, Business Desk (Sep 2023)
This feeding frenzy has so much juice that the Mayor himself could be taken down by his own Deputy simply for not participating in it!
Sure signs we are in the Unraveling. The Third Turning.
Imagine if we put this much energy into doing something productive and kinetic like maintaining roads or bridges or power supply or inter-island ferries or the fragmenting postal system or petrol costs or crumbling health. Failing schools, anyone? How about fixing things so we don’t need security guards at the WINZ office that is there to give away free money or the Emergency Departments there to give away free health care? Instead we’re focused on this. Ref. Senior doctors call for 24/7 security as ED crisis becomes ‘worst that we have ever seen’, NZ Herald (Sep 2023)
Food prices are nuts. Entire brands and products that are not going through Shrinkflation are being outright deleted. There are big economic issues facing everyone that we do not turn and face but we’ve got all the power in the world to worry about solving personal problems. Kissing Spanish girls and being mean to staff at the pub. That’s what we’re going to put first while the world comes down around our ears? Ref. Edmonds pastry discontinued due to being ‘no longer commercially viable’, Stuff (Sep 2023)
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Ref. Ever had a peek inside the Clock Tower of the Dunedin Railway Station? Facebook (2023)
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