Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cited the disenfranchisement of the majority-minority city as "upholding the injustice of the practices enacted during slavery."
WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. weighed in on D.C. statehood during a Thursday hearing on the issue and discussed the"disenfranchisement" of the District's people as rooted in the"history of slavery."
"It is a profound injustice and a thick irony of our history that the people who fled here to the District of Columbia to free slavery because of the enlightenment of this community are now disenfranchised," she said, observing that the District was the first part of the Union to emancipate slaves. It’s where Black Americans fled the tyranny of slavery & towards greater freedom, to DC. Yet today it’s where 2nd class citizenship reigns, and the right to vote is denied.
Story continuesOther debate in the hearing surrounded practical matters like the governance of buildings like the Trump International Hotel, which is in a building still owned by the federal government, but would be included within the boundaries of the new state.
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