Marc Morial: “I'm shocked. I'm repulsed. I see an incident that has no legality, no constitutionality. And those officers do not…”

A miss on the Census affects you the entire decade. It is not like you get a re-do the following year.

it is very important that we push back against that through public education, through positive messages, to assert that it is the law that the information that the census collects is confidential

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.

It matters. It matters to money. It matters to power, while we work on all of the things that are necessary to ensure a complete count.