Democrats want DC to get statehood only because it will add to their numbers in the House and Senate. But, as usual, they are throwing up race as a distraction and smoke screen. They couldn’t care less about blacks or anybody else. Raw power is what they are after. Crying “racist” every other second is their means to an authoritarian socialist end.

FNC: “The divided House Thursday passed legislation to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state and to grant its more than 700,000 residents full representation in Congress. The strictly party-line vote in the House was 216 to 208, with all Republicans rejecting the statehood bill, dubbed H.R. 51. The legislation has support from President Biden but faces long odds of passing in the 50-50 split Senate. Debate over statehood got particularly heated on the House floor Thursday when a New York Democrat accused certain Republicans of being against D.C. statehood because the district was not White enough in their minds to qualify for self-rule.”

Race hustler du jour Rep. Mondaire Jones had this to say. Yawn. “I have had enough of my colleagues’ racist insinuations that somehow that people of Washington, D.C., are incapable or even unworthy of our democracy. One Senate Republican said that D.C. wouldn’t be a ‘well-rounded, working-class state.’ I had no idea there were so many syllables in the word White…One of my House Republican colleagues said that D.C. shouldn’t be a state because the district doesn’t have a landfill. My goodness, with all the racist trash my colleagues have brought to this debate, I can see why they’re worried about having a place to put it.” No racism at work here. So he made it up.

Next up was DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. “Congress has both the moral obligation and the constitutional authority to pass H.R. 51. This country was founded on the principles of no taxation without representation and consent of the governed. But D.C. residents are taxed without representation, and cannot consent to the laws under which they, as American citizens, must live.” How sad. They just control the rest of the country.

“Let’s be clear what H.R. 51 is all about: It’s about Democrats adding two new progressive U.S. senators to push a radical agenda championed by the Squad to reshape America into the socialist utopia they always talk about,” said Rep. James Comer, R-KY. Spot on.

Rep. Jody Hice, R-GA, argued, “This is absolutely against what our Constitution and our Founders intended.” But hey, when did Democrats start caring about the Constitution?

This piece was written by David Kamioner on April 23, 2021. It originally appeared in DrewBerquist.com and is used by permission.

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