The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives has voted to make Washington, DC the 51st US state and ditch the problematic reference to Christopher Columbus for the more woke Frederick Douglass. The Senate is unlikely to care.
In addition to becoming the 51st state of the union, the bill would change what “DC” stands for, from the District of Columbia – named after the increasingly unpopular Italian explorer whose statues are being toppled all over the country – to “Douglass Commonwealth,” after the freed slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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