Marc Morial: “Democracy is under vigorous, vicious, and sinister attack, beginning with the events of June -- January 6th at the…”

When we look at what is happening in this nation, we see an effort to impose a system of American apartheid.

D.C., for many Federal programs and initiatives, is treated like a territory, which denies the residents of the District of Columbia, including its black residents, equal treatment and therefore equal representation.

The failure to provide Federal voting rights, voting rights for a Member of Congress and two U.S. Senators, for the 51st State, disproportionately impacts a large number of African American citizens of the United States.

We note the attacks on this progress. They come in the form of voter suppression – voter purges, attacks on democracy, attacks on equal opportunity in DE&I, banning of books, attacks to try to thwart this progress.