Feel free to explain what you meant then.
She won't...
PearlWatson
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What I meant by God Bless America is that I hoped God would bless America.
called it.
PearlWatson
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Well, one, that was sarcasm... and two, you have shown me the light that there are indeed people not worth caring about.
So thanks.
And again, go to hell.
PearlWatson
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Which part was sarcasm?
What makes me not worth caring about as opposed to your beloved murderers, rapists, and thieves?
Weird he left out Thomas Jeffersons notes on Virginia where he is blatantly racist towards African Americans, and influenced a ton of his followers to feel the same way.
No, this guy doesn't have an agenda, Thea aves should have thanked the white man for the 3/5ths vote. Oh, and also the genocide.
No, this guy doesn't have an agenda, Thea aves should have thanked the white man for the 3/5ths vote. Oh, and also the genocide.
PearlWatson
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Well, if I'm correct, which I'm almost positive that I am, the slave owners actually cast the vote for the slaves, so if they had 5 slaves, they actually got 4 votes in an election. 1 for themselves, and 3 representing the slaves.
If the slaves had actually been treated as humans, they would have had actual votes for themselves and ended slavery immediately.
So no, the decendents of slaves don't need to reexamine their views on the 3/5's vote. The ends don't justify the means.
This guy comes from the same line of thinkers that have produced the "slaves should be happy they got a free ticket to America, because look how good African Americans have it now" argument.
Morons, all of em.
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Clearly somebody didn't pay attention in history class... the idea was that southern states wouldn't receive House of Representatives representation based on the total "slave and free" population in a state, which would give them an overwhelming majority due to the new rules made at the Constitutional convention, so in reality the south would have been all for each slave being worth a whole vote, rather than 3/5ths. The north felt that the slave population shouldn't be counted in voting representation, because the slaves couldn't vote and they had no representation. The compromise was agreed to by the North, because if the slave populous was added to the free populous in the South, there would have been an overwhelming majority for the South in the HoR, and had that happened the **** would have hit the fan(or we wouldn't be a country anymore). So this wasn't really a smear compromise based on telling slaves they aren't worth anything...
This was blanket racist, but actually protected the North and to a degree the slaves... correct me if I'm wrong Kicky.
This is what I was taught in AP high school history, not a personal vendetta against any race (exp: Simple Heel is a racist because he agreed with the 3/5th compromise). It makes sense if you know basic United States Government.
I don't believe slave votes were tallied, but I'm not sure.
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it had nothing to do with voting, it had to do with counting the population to determine how many representatives those states should have - - you know, how many seats in the House of Representatives.
Slaves couldn't vote, women couldn't vote, nobody under the age of 21 could vote - but they were still counted in determining the population, though slaves only counted as 3/5 of a person, in other words 5 slaves counted the same as 3 non-slaves