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

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.

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.

Democracy is under vigorous, vicious and sinister attack, beginning with the events of June -- January 6 at the Capitol and cascading like a tsunami through state legislatures across the nation.

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.