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Was a Black Valued at 3/5ths of a White?

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 13:06
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Many of my columns speak highly of the wisdom of our nation’s founders. Every once in a while, I receive an ugly letter sarcastically asking what do I think of their wisdom declaring blacks “three-fifths of a human.” It’s difficult to tell whether such a question is prompted by ignorance or is the fruit of an ongoing agenda to undermine American greatness. Let’s examine some facts about our founders and slavery.

At the time of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, slaves were 40 percent of the population of southern colonies. Apportionment in the House of Representatives and the number of electoral votes each state would have in presidential elections would be based upon population. Southern colonies wanted slaves to be counted as one person. Northern delegates to the convention, and those opposed to slavery, wanted to count only free persons of each state for the purposes of apportionment in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College. The compromise reached was that each slave would be counted as only three-fifths of a person.

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  • Well, to answer the question with the “real answer”.. Simply put, considering the fact that the original 13th Amendment was never lawfully repealed but simply hidden & replaced with the new 13th Amendment which did not actually “free” anyone but “enslaved” ever one, even if it were true, now the Blacks along with all humanity isn’t worth a damn dime. Your birth certificate is nothing more than an item being traded on the Stock Market and you are a debt slave from birth till death. You are only worth what you can make for the slave owners who profit from your labor, from the Private Central Bankers who create money from thin air charging you interest to even hold & use it to the Oligarchs who suffer you under the whip. You actually think you are free?.. I know misery loves company so people like you must be rejoicing. Rather than being set free now you have enslaved us all.. You ask 3/5th “my ass”, now you are 1/5th of a person and everyone else as well, do you feel better now?…

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