re: It’s now racist if you don’t want Washington DC to be a state

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Loved watching their mayor say it was a plot by the GOP to disenfranchise 750K people of color.....wonder if that cvnt realizes that out founding fathers made this decisions in 1792 before there were 750K inhabitants of DC and definitely way before POC could vote.

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Look at the 1789 demographics. The entire District probably had something more like 7500 people in it, and the Founders were NOT giving two Senators to 7500 people.

The original land area was taken from two slave states and populated largely by slave owners and slavery sympathizers.

If anything, the decision to preclude Congressional representation to the District had the effect of LESSENING the political power of the slaveholding class.

But that is "racist." OK