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Shortly after settling the defamation lawsuit against an individual who referred to a beef patty as a “Jamaican hot pocket,” the Black Supreme Court of the United States agreed to settle one of the most controversial cases of our time.
Is Washington, D.C., included in the geographic region known as “the South?”
The case was originally heard in the circuit court on the platform still known as Black Twitter. After subsequent appeals, the Black Supreme Court agreed to put the court on its docket. Instead of summarizing the South decision, theGrio has decided to print the full decision.
Statement of Facts
While filming a conversation for Variety promoting their upcoming releases “American Fiction” and “The Color Purple,” thespian Jeffrey Wright told iconic actress Taraji P. Henson that “D.C. is actually a Southern town in many ways.”
The comment sparked a furious debate on the platform that will be forever known as “Black Twitter.”
Majority Opinion
It is the opinion of this court, by a 5-4 margin, that the District of Columbia is not the South.
It is true that the capital of the United States is below the Mason-Dixon line, which “has been regarded for 200 years as the transition between the North and South.” However, that arbitrary geographical boundary was drawn by a couple of white boys more than two and a half centuries ago when constitutional, race-based slavery was also a reasonable, well-regarded institution. Moreover, the case of Trump v. Hurricanes Map…
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