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155 years ago today, slaves in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free. We commemorate that event, when the Emancipation Proclamation was fully realized, today, #Juneteenth
. Yet, for 219 years, the residents of DC have not benefited from full citizenship.pic.twitter.com/lFFhBJcG5c
My great-grandfather Richard Holmes, a slave, escaped a plantation in Virginia to reach the District of Columbia. He did a walk to freedom, but not one to equal citizenship.
D.C. residents still do not have a vote on national legislation and their own local laws can be overturned by Congress.
Next week, we take a huge step in correcting this historic injustice when the House passes our #DCStatehood bill (#HR51) for the first time in U.S. history. #HistoryMaking.
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