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[https://www.npr.org/2021/04/24/990544576/how-the-battle-against-d-c-statehood-is-rooted-in-racism by All Things Considered 24/4/21 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2021/04/24/990544576/how-the-battle-against-d-c-statehood-is-rooted-in-racism by All Things Considered 24/4/21 npr] | ||
On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would eventually, if approved by the Senate and signed by the president, make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. That vote was along party lines, with Republicans insisting that the move is merely a power grab by Democrats to enlarge their numbers in the Congress, particularly the Senate. | On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would eventually, if approved by the Senate and signed by the president, make Washington, D.C., the 51st state. That vote was along party lines, with Republicans insisting that the move is merely a power grab by Democrats to enlarge their numbers in the Congress, particularly the Senate. | ||
=====‘A very old political trope’: the racist US history behind Trump’s Haitian pet eater claim===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/14/racist-history-trump-pet-eating-immigrant by Claire Wang 14/9/24 The Guardian] | |||
Less than half an hour into Tuesday’s presidential debate, former president Donald Trump deployed an updated version of a century-old slur against immigrant communities: that newcomers are eating other people’s pets and vermin. | |||
