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December 23, 2008

A District I Can Believe In

by AltHippo @ 12:47 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

A very nice feature article from the Washington Post looking at the region vis-a-vis potential improvements from an Obama administration.

I don’t know of any other capitol city with the inequities of power that you can see in Our Fair City. I’ve been in Rome, Paris, London, Brussels, Athens, Edinburgh, Cairo and Tel Aviv. None of these cities has an area as oppressed as Anacostia. And, of course no other capitol city in the world deprives their citizens of the vote other than Washington.

So, yes, I expect Obama to play a role in pushing the evolution of this potentially great city.

The article also mentions Tommy Wells, who is one of the real heroes on the DC council. It’s a good read.

One argument that I’m familiar with is that the current fate of DC is due to the majority minority nature of the population. I’d like to advance a slightly different argument. DC as a symbol is revered by those of us who believe in that story of the city on the hill, featured in Jon Edwards sermons, and feloniously appropriated by Reagan. It ought to be a symbol of government. Is it possible that those who are the enemies of Federal government, are just those who prefer to see the District in it’s oppressed state?

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