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Re: Demographic Blueshift
« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2021, 12:15:37 am »
I support this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/violence-at-us-capitol-raises-new-calls-for-dc-statehood-as-mostly-black-city-decries-display-of-white-nationalism/ar-BB1cz61n

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On Thursday, Bowser went further, calling once again for Congress to make the city its own government, with the same representation in the Senate and House afforded to the 50 states.

“Washingtonians have waited over 200 years for the representation we deserve as American citizens,” the mayor said in her statement.
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White supremacy has historically shaped residential segregation in the district, said Amaka Okechukwu, an assistant professor on conflict and race at George Mason University in nearby Fairfax, Virginia.

“The federal government’s refusal to grant D.C. statehood has functioned as a mass political disenfranchisement of primarily African American residents,” said Okechukwu.
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Nicole Holliday, 33, lives in Columbia Heights, a diverse neighborhood a few miles away from the violence at the Capitol. She made sure to walk her dog before 6 p.m. Wednesday when the curfew went into effect because she said she wasn't sure what would happen after dark and if the mob spread throughout the city.

"You don't want the Proud Boys outside your house," Holliday said.

As a Black woman, she said she was not surprised at all that the riot occurred.

"When they waltzed into the Capitol like they owned it, they were because they act like they own it. They think they own it," she said.

Holliday also saw the stark distinction between how people were treated by police on Wednesday compared to Black protesters over the summer during Black Lives Matter protests, when mostly peaceful demonstrators were greeted with armed law enforcement officers, tear gas and state-sanctioned violence.

"If these people were Black, they would be dead before they got to the building," she said.
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"I don't think that people that don't live in the District realize how frustrating it is that you don't have control over what happens in your everyday life," she said. "The idea of D.C. statehood is not just theoretical for us."
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