To try to address this a little seriously -- they never intended people to actually live in DC long-term in large numbers But they didn't intend for freedmen to come flooding into the city from throughout the Middle South to escape Jim Crow laws after the abolition of slaveryhttps://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1385261460570390529 …
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Because, you know They didn't intend to abolish slavery either I guess maybe not all of their intentions were so great
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You all know this is a racial thing, right? And not a subtle racial thing, at all Washington DC was nicknamed "the Chocolate City", Mayor Walter Washington was the first Black mayor of a major US city
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They want you to think that this is about not giving representation to privileged White House and Congressional staffers because they want you to think about the gentrification in NW DC and not the entire rest of the city
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They call the rich officials and lobbyists, and DC insider the people from "Inside The Beltway" Except half of what's inside said beltway is OUTSIDE the godamned districtpic.twitter.com/ELetLwkqWY
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