Where's the Governor of Washington, D.C. on the missing girls? What about their Senator?

As you may have noticed from this headline that these are rhetorical questions. I'm attempting to magnify a larger problem and that's the need for statehood of Washington, D.C. I would not have known
about these missing girls until a friend of mine in Houston, TX posted something about it on Facebook.

I clearly understand the rationale of Congress to continually kick the issue of statehood for D.C. down the road because first of all the majority of the residents there are African-American. Once we have agreed on that fact I would have to remind you that the majority of residents in Iowa and Montana are White so what's your point? Are you saying that they are less important because they are Black? Or, is it just routine that when an African-American teen comes up missing that we just naturally assume that they ran away from home?

The point is this, D.C. has a larger number of residents than several mid-western states. D.C. pays more in federal taxes than several of these states combined. D.C. has no voice on a national level which in essence is taxation without representation.

Yes D.C. has one representative in Congress but she can't vote on any legislation, not even legislation that affects her own district. And therein lies the problem of D.C. not being represented by a national figure that could demand answers about the missing African-American girls in that city.

With twenty-four-hour news coverage coming out of Washington you would think that somewhere in the day some coverage would be devoted to this story. There again I got ahead of myself. It's not a story until some credible person makes it a story. It's amazing that one person could tweet a lie which has since been proven to be a lie and we are still talking about it. Four people were killed in London and we got a tweet about it. As of yet, no tweet about these missing girls.

TMZ spoke with police Chief Peter Newsham who says: "With almost every case, those missing have a history of leaving home. He says the number missing is similar to years before, it's just been brought to the light with the use of social media and other platforms to help locate missing people.Newsham says his department's goal is to get to the root of the problem to determine just what causes these kids to leave their homes."

I'm not a resident of D.C. but I can clearly see the injustice that has been perpetrated upon the residents there because of their inability to function as a chartered state in this union called the United States of America. As a result of this injustice, about twelve African-American girls are missing with no updates at all about where or how citizens can help in the investigation.

To me, this should be used as a rallying cry for statehood for that city. Maybe I shouldn't say this but just think, If Ivanka Trump suddenly came up missing in D.C. do you think it would take this long to get some answers?