THE AFRO — “Here [Congress’] ignorance of District affairs has often shown itself so egregious and glaring that it could excite nothing but laughter, if tears were not often a more fitting recognition of the folly,” Stafford said bluntly. “What is needed is two men in the Senate and one man in the House; real live men with blood in their arteries and brains in their heads; men who have lived long in the District of Columbia and belong to her; men who know her needs and her capacity, who know the history and condition of her institutions, her charities, her prisons, the views and aspirations of her people; men who are proud of their connection with her, and proud that to her soil has been committed the ark of civil and religious liberty.”| By Micha Green | AFRO D.C. and Digital Editor mgreen@afro.com As many in the nation’s capital and justice leaders nationwide push for D.C. Statehood, the Council of the District of Columbia took to Twitter to give folks a little history lesson on early 20th century advocacy regarding making the City a state. On May 8, […]
