Robert Mugabe

Here’s Councilman Charles Barron in City Hall yesterday, sounding off on the political situation in Zimbabwe.

I asked Barron, a longtime admirer of Robert Mugabe, what he thought about Mugabe’s behavior, considering the horrific violence reported against the democratic opposition to his government in Zimbabwe. Barron's answer was the same as always: the West and Western media is biased against Mugabe because he took land back from colonial white settlers.

(Barron invited Mugabe to City Hall in 2002.)

“In the year 2000, when he said one farm, one farmer, he was vilified,” Barron told me. “For 20 years they loved Mugabe because they didn’t take the land from the whites.  read more »

Here is Councilman Charles Barron, who once invited Robert Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, to City Hall, saying another controversial leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, should be allowed to visit Ground Zero.

"If anybody wants to mourn that, let them do it," said Barron.

Charles Barron is now vowing to lead the Sean Bell marchers to the United Nations.

The last time I saw Barron at the U.N., he was protesting in favor of Robert Mugabe, who is actually quite in favor of shooting innocent people multiple times. (Sorry, subscription required.) -- Andrew Rice

Crains Insider (subscription required) reported this morning that Charles Barron will take a run at the Brooklyn congressional seat held by Ed Towns, who raised the ire of the left by backing the Central American Free Trade Agreement.

The question: Will the laborite groups that want to take Towns out, like the Working Families Party, have the stomach for Barron, his racial nationism, and his admiration for Robert Mugabe? Or will they take a pass on the primary?

Azi spoke to Barron today, and notes that Amsterdam News had the story last month.

One of the bubbles that has yet to be broken is the esteem in which Americans hold our Federal Reser  read more »