Thursday, April 22, 2021

The House votes ...

... on to the Senate. 

[D.C. non-voting delegate Eleanor Holmes] Norton said this year’s vote felt even more significant than last year’s, because awareness of the District’s plight seems to be growing.“It’s now begun to excite the country,” she said in an interview earlier this week.

Erudite Partner grew up in D.C. sixty plus years ago, always aware that Congress was disenfranchising the people of her very Black city. 

The District is no longer so preponderantly Black. That's a complex development, neither all good or all bad. 

But it has always been wrong that 690,000 people don't enjoy full citizenship.

And the rest of us have begun to understand that.

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