Still thinking about yesterday’s historic #DCStatehood victory and how @EleanorNorton couldn’t even vote for her own legislation to make her home the 51st state.
We have to correct this injustice. We need a Senate that will take action and grant equal rights for DC residents.
Oh no, what are they gonna do? Take away our ability to control our local funds? Restrict abortion access? Tax us without representation? Treat us like a colony? Oh, wait...
White House officials viewed the mayor’s Black Lives Matter installation as a serious escalation and said the mayor has done “irreparable harm” to her relations with Republicans on Capitol Hill. https://t.co/Gen3DQf8j6
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, in the relief office I saw my people, as they stood there hungry I stood there asking, is this land made for you and me?
Sasha's right, of course. But it doesn't seem like too much to ask, as a start, for this DOJ to let the people already funded to do this work actually do this work.
https://t.co/yGeqkixHl0
“What are you afraid of?” asked a white demonstrator who was moving barricades in front of the whites house. “The police,” responded a black woman in the crowd.