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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Come on, the vast majority of those rich staffers and contractors and whatnot live across the river in Arlington It's a whole thing Everyone who's actually been to the DC area knows this (it's why they make such a big deal about "from DC" vs "from the DC area")
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This is... not exactly true. A lot of DC was undeveloped swamp land when it was cordoned off, but not all of it. Georgetown, for instance, was an existing city at the time. Indeed, it was the largest city in Montgomery County, Maryland by a fairly sizeable margin.
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The founders may have wanted DC to not have permanent residents, but that plan flew out of the window as soon as they chose the actual land. It's not *just* a modern injustice.
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