Next Justin Lafferty will explain how the poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses from the Jim Crow era were really an attempt to end racial discrimination.
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The three-fifths compromise made it possible for southern slaveowners to exercise a great deal of influence over the federal government, which in turn strengthened the institution of slavery during the first half of the nineteenth century. #history101https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1389627527187021834 …
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One of the ways you convince Americans that racism and white supremacy is not central to our history is by politicizing and distorting it. Lafferty's comment is on the same trajectory that leads straight back to the Lost Cause argument the slavery itself was a "positive good."
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Meanwhile, the bust of a slave trader, Confederate general, and Ku Klux Klan leader still sits inside the Tennessee State Capitol Building in Nashville. What is Rep. Justin Lafferty's position on this?pic.twitter.com/X7GSoyCGp3
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Also, slave holders in Virgini didn’t pay taxes on their enslaved “property”
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For that to have been the case it would have been the slaves who had the 3/5 votes & not the masters (especially assuming the slave numbers were used in creating districts)
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WTF are you talking about? The 3/5 compromise was about population counts--you know, the thing that determines the number of representatives in the House? Southern states wanted to count slaves as people for the purpose of population, but as chattel in all other respects.
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So - that's about the Declaration, and we are discussing the Constitution - so what is your aim here?
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Opponents campaign slogan suggestion: Laugh at Lafferty!
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But is there an argument that if they were counted as a whole person they would have wielded even more power?
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Yes. That is the argument.
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