On the series of tubes known as the internet, much chatter is being created in response to this New York Times op-ed by Kmele Foster, David French, Jason Stanley and Thomas Chatterton Williams.
Erick, my youngest daughter is visiting from Southern California and she just had to listen to you and I was very proud! I am off for some time while she is here. I never get to listen now that you are 12-3. She did notice that WSB seems to be on the side of criminals. I Never watch the tv news but she felt compelled because she had to see Justin Farmer. The piece on the state Trooper pushing the car that was pushing his patrol car was, well, unspeakable and Choi presented it in manner that was baiting. Unbelievable. Forget critical race theory. When someone can push a state patrol car, all bets are off. What would happen to me if I did something like that? Unspeakable. I would never dream of something like that. They are possessed of incredible evil. Revelation.
Erick, thanks for this continued effort to expose the lies. Slavery is not mentioned in the Constitution AND our founding fathers KNEW slavery couldn't stand in this country. They were fully aware of contradiction in values between slavery and the Constitution. They really were bright men. We need to focus more on telling the story that the United States of America is the FIRST COUNTRY TO ABOLISH SLAVERY. Keep the faith.
In the op-ed, the authors write, “Texas House Bill 3979 goes further, forbidding teaching that ‘slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to, the authentic founding principles of the United States.’ “ In other words, the Texas legislature is requiring public education to teach a lie. In a Constitution that declared “negroes” to be 3/5 a person, it cannot be said that racism is a deviation, betrayal or failure to live up to its principles. Racism was an explicit principle of the founding. And, slavery was an accepted practice. Those are simple facts.
The 3/5 compromise demonstrates the fact that the principles of the founding were inconsistent with slavery, and that the founders well understood it. Slave States wanted slaves counted in full for purposes of electoral representation, while free States did not want them counted at all since they were not free and did not benefit from electoral representation. 3/5 was the compromise, along with the abolition of the slave trade, that allowed the country to form.
Slavery existed at the time of the founding, of course. The trans-Atlantic slave trade was horrific, yet by no means the largest. 5% of the humans enslaved by trans-Atlantic trade were traded to the US or its former colonies, and the slave trade ended in the US in accordance with the founding compromise in 1808, decades before the rest of the Americas. The principles of liberty enunciated at our founding marked the beginning of the end of slavery. The founders knew it, including those who owned slaves (read Mason, and Jefferson, for instance).
Sir, 3/5 was used as a count, not a character reference, because the original 13 states the population was far greater in the south. So the slaves were "counted" as 3/5 not as 1. Read David Barton's Original Intent.
The 3/5 compromise was necessary to form the union and diluted what the southern states initially demanded. It was not pro-slavery. It diminished the strength of the south from what they expected in Congress and was necessary to actually form the United States.
James, the 3/5 compromise was a northern state effort to keep the United States from failing. Erick wrote extensively about this. The south wanted slaves to be counted FULLY in order to improve representation by having larger populations.
Erick, my youngest daughter is visiting from Southern California and she just had to listen to you and I was very proud! I am off for some time while she is here. I never get to listen now that you are 12-3. She did notice that WSB seems to be on the side of criminals. I Never watch the tv news but she felt compelled because she had to see Justin Farmer. The piece on the state Trooper pushing the car that was pushing his patrol car was, well, unspeakable and Choi presented it in manner that was baiting. Unbelievable. Forget critical race theory. When someone can push a state patrol car, all bets are off. What would happen to me if I did something like that? Unspeakable. I would never dream of something like that. They are possessed of incredible evil. Revelation.
I have to agree with French. There are federal laws that this gross stuff violates. Sue them. After some losses the fad will go away.
Erick, thanks for this continued effort to expose the lies. Slavery is not mentioned in the Constitution AND our founding fathers KNEW slavery couldn't stand in this country. They were fully aware of contradiction in values between slavery and the Constitution. They really were bright men. We need to focus more on telling the story that the United States of America is the FIRST COUNTRY TO ABOLISH SLAVERY. Keep the faith.
In the op-ed, the authors write, “Texas House Bill 3979 goes further, forbidding teaching that ‘slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to, the authentic founding principles of the United States.’ “ In other words, the Texas legislature is requiring public education to teach a lie. In a Constitution that declared “negroes” to be 3/5 a person, it cannot be said that racism is a deviation, betrayal or failure to live up to its principles. Racism was an explicit principle of the founding. And, slavery was an accepted practice. Those are simple facts.
The 3/5 compromise demonstrates the fact that the principles of the founding were inconsistent with slavery, and that the founders well understood it. Slave States wanted slaves counted in full for purposes of electoral representation, while free States did not want them counted at all since they were not free and did not benefit from electoral representation. 3/5 was the compromise, along with the abolition of the slave trade, that allowed the country to form.
Slavery existed at the time of the founding, of course. The trans-Atlantic slave trade was horrific, yet by no means the largest. 5% of the humans enslaved by trans-Atlantic trade were traded to the US or its former colonies, and the slave trade ended in the US in accordance with the founding compromise in 1808, decades before the rest of the Americas. The principles of liberty enunciated at our founding marked the beginning of the end of slavery. The founders knew it, including those who owned slaves (read Mason, and Jefferson, for instance).
Sir, 3/5 was used as a count, not a character reference, because the original 13 states the population was far greater in the south. So the slaves were "counted" as 3/5 not as 1. Read David Barton's Original Intent.
The 3/5 compromise was necessary to form the union and diluted what the southern states initially demanded. It was not pro-slavery. It diminished the strength of the south from what they expected in Congress and was necessary to actually form the United States.
James, the 3/5 compromise was a northern state effort to keep the United States from failing. Erick wrote extensively about this. The south wanted slaves to be counted FULLY in order to improve representation by having larger populations.