Asclepias
Diamond Member
This statement says it all. It is inaccurate because free blacks were counted as a whole and slaves were counted as 3/5ths of a person strictly for the purposes of congressional enumeration. It begs the question of whether you wished they had been counted as a whole, which in fact, is obviously the case for the below statement. Of course, if they were counted as a whole history would have been bent in favor of the South. The ignorance displayed below was all I needed to demonstrate your omissions of US history as to stoke racial animosity, or perhaps worse, your fundamental misunderstanding of US history. You aren't worth my time if you cant see that the below statement is dead wrong.
Now I see your issue with my statement. Instead of Blacks I should have said Black slaves. I was wrong not to include the word in there. My point in saying that was to point out the hypocrisy in the white power establishment a lot of our schools were named after. Instead of focusing on the point, my omission of one word gave you a small window to move the goal posts instead of addressing that point. You are too funny for words.
If you use false claims so as to make your point I will show why your claims have no merit. This is a legitimate part of argument. You said that "blacks were only considered 3/5ths of a human." This is wrong on a number of counts and mis-framing and omitting most of my argument is not going to make your case.
1. They were not CONSIDERED as 3/5ths a "HUMAN." They were counted as 3/5ths a person during the census for the purposes of congressional enumeration in the House of Representatives. BIG FREAKING DIFFERENCE!
2. Free blacks, and there were many of them, were counted as a whole. The 3/5ths compromise applied to slaves, not free blacks.
3. You're statement demands that blacks should have been counted as a "whole human" which would have been disastrous for eventual abolition and civil rights.
You are the one complaining that white people are omitting and distorting black history. Yet when it comes to framing falsehoods of black/US history so as to stoke racial animosity in the name of racial solidarity you are guilty as charged. If you can't understand why your statement was a load of crap then you aren't worth anyone's time on historical matters. If your going to criticize someone you should criticize them for legitimate and factual reasons. You do not make up falsehoods so as to dupe and radicalize impressionable young blacks into a black nationalist agenda! Which, of course, is no doubt what you pride yourself in.
On Frederick Douglass and the 3/5ths compromise.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVRihWygtLA]The 3/5 Clause Of The Constitution Explained - YouTube[/ame]
1. What exactly is the huge difference in "person" and "human" that confused you enough to move the goal posts?
2. I already stated I was speaking in general terms. Again I apologize for not being specific as that was a very insignificant part of my post as you highlighted.
3. Who told you my statement demanded anything but for you to address the hypocrisy in making heros of people that supported slavery? What I see is that you have to make that leap in order to get off the subject. Curiously you still are avoiding it. The hypocrisy of pointing out what Blacks were naming schools when your founding fathers have schools named after them.
Remember this. I was talking to you, an adult. I was not talking to a child and explaining the 3/5ths compromise. You have ran from the point long enough. Take a stand.