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Reply to "Are there any legitimate reasons why someone would oppose DC statehood?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] So - when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution they fully envisioned that DC would, 200 years later, be a majority black town and deliberately set it up so that DC would never have voting rights specifically to keep black people oppressed? And that for most of DC history up to the 1960s it was a majority white town and its residents were deliberately disenfranchised for colonialist or racist reasons? Got it. DC is no longer majority AA and the share is rapidly falling with each year so it's no guarantee that any statehood would give DC more POC senators (or governor - would there be one?)[/quote] There's nothing in the constitution that says there can't be voting rights for DC residents. So we don't have to worry about what the framers and ratifiers of the constitution may or may not have intended.[/quote]
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