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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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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And the very concept of cities themselves, never mind how many Black people live rurally.
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If you told the Founding Fathers that one day, New York City alone would have over three times the population their entire country did at the time (2.5 million, apparently), they'd have full on heart attacks. So little of what they said holds up to modern reality.
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and Marion Barry was no more corrupt than his predecessors... it's just that he had a different shade of beneficiaries
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Something that's very relevant to the discussion of DC statehood: When they made the decision not to give DC representation, only property-owning white men could vote. Expanding the franchise completely changes how we achieve fair, democratic representation.
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