LOL brother, talk about foresight!
LOL brother, talk about foresight!
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has banned nearly 60 percent of the city’s black residents from bars, gyms, concerts, theaters, and more.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Martin Luther King Jr. was 20 years old — a young man, already halfway through his short life — by the first summer the nation’s capital desegregated city swimming pools. Historic photographs from the years before show black children crowding outside the fences in D.C.’s terrible summer heat, while white children splashed in the cool water.
Four years later, while the 24-year-old King was studying philosophy at Harvard University, the Supreme Court forced DC to enforce its 70-year-old anti-segregation laws, finally ending white-only bars and restaurants in the District of Columbia.
The fight to revive “the lost laws” had begun three years earlier, when 86-year-old Mary Church Terrell had led a small group of black and white friends into Thompson’s Restaurant and asked to be served. She was 90 when she celebrated her victory.
On Saturday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser instituted a vaccine mandate, barring nearly 60 percent of the city’s black residents from bars, gyms, concerts, theaters, nightclubs, restaurants, and indoor swimming pools. That very day, Jan. 15, 2022, King would have turned 93.
This city is sliding backward in nearly every measurable way. We see it in schools, where children are masked, tested, forced to accept vaccinations not yet approved for kids, and taught racism and segregation.
We see it in our streets, where violent crime has skyrocketed, breaking murder records not seen in nearly two decades — and hitting the poor the hardest.
We see it in our public parks and spaces, where tent cities filled with dangerous, violent junkies and insane people harass residents and tourists alike. Rather than help, the mentally ill are left to the predation of drugs dealers, the elements and each other.
And we see it in our politics, where for four years, instead of teaching children, punishing crime, and properly caring for the addicted and ill, the city’s leaders devoted their time to attacking and embarrassing the president of the United States, even ceding a city square across from the White House to violent, left-wing activists.
Even with a new president, their attentions have not shifted. They peaked Saturday, with the city order to bar residents and tourists from a host of basic services without proof of a shot that fails to even defend against the current variant hitting the country.
Washington, D.C. was built to be a federal city — welcoming to all, and unmolested by political rivalries or jealousies. It no longer is; the city’s government has seen to that. But Congress has the power to change this, and the solution could lie in a nearly 200-year-old political enfranchisement effort that the mayor just might have revived.
The Federal City For more than two decades, D.C. license plates have complained the city’s residents are subject to, “Taxation Without Representation,” but the fight has raged for more than two centuries.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has banned nearly 60 percent of the city’s black residents from bars, gyms, concerts, theaters, and more.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Martin Luther King Jr. was 20 years old — a young man, already halfway through his short life — by the first summer the nation’s capital desegregated city swimming pools. Historic photographs from the years before show black children crowding outside the fences in D.C.’s terrible summer heat, while white children splashed in the cool water.
Four years later, while the 24-year-old King was studying philosophy at Harvard University, the Supreme Court forced DC to enforce its 70-year-old anti-segregation laws, finally ending white-only bars and restaurants in the District of Columbia.
The fight to revive “the lost laws” had begun three years earlier, when 86-year-old Mary Church Terrell had led a small group of black and white friends into Thompson’s Restaurant and asked to be served. She was 90 when she celebrated her victory.
On Saturday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser instituted a vaccine mandate, barring nearly 60 percent of the city’s black residents from bars, gyms, concerts, theaters, nightclubs, restaurants, and indoor swimming pools. That very day, Jan. 15, 2022, King would have turned 93.
This city is sliding backward in nearly every measurable way. We see it in schools, where children are masked, tested, forced to accept vaccinations not yet approved for kids, and taught racism and segregation.
We see it in our streets, where violent crime has skyrocketed, breaking murder records not seen in nearly two decades — and hitting the poor the hardest.
We see it in our public parks and spaces, where tent cities filled with dangerous, violent junkies and insane people harass residents and tourists alike. Rather than help, the mentally ill are left to the predation of drugs dealers, the elements and each other.
And we see it in our politics, where for four years, instead of teaching children, punishing crime, and properly caring for the addicted and ill, the city’s leaders devoted their time to attacking and embarrassing the president of the United States, even ceding a city square across from the White House to violent, left-wing activists.
Even with a new president, their attentions have not shifted. They peaked Saturday, with the city order to bar residents and tourists from a host of basic services without proof of a shot that fails to even defend against the current variant hitting the country.
Washington, D.C. was built to be a federal city — welcoming to all, and unmolested by political rivalries or jealousies. It no longer is; the city’s government has seen to that. But Congress has the power to change this, and the solution could lie in a nearly 200-year-old political enfranchisement effort that the mayor just might have revived.
The Federal City
For more than two decades, D.C. license plates have complained the city’s residents are subject to, “Taxation Without Representation,” but the fight has raged for more than two centuries.
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