DC Statehood is a Racial Justice Issue

DC statehood is a racial justice issue. The state of Wyoming has 578,000 people, it’s only 1 percent Black, and it has two U.S. senators. But the District of Columbia has 705,000 people, it’s 46 percent Black, and they have no U.S. senators and no voting members in the House of Representatives.

DC residents pay federal taxes but have no voice in the federal legislature that decides those taxes. No Taxation Without Representation was one of the cries of the American Revolution, but when it comes to the largely Black residents of DC, that’s exactly what they’re living with.