jeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-24 months agoA Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lostmessage-squaremessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1571arrow-down165
arrow-up1506arrow-down1message-squareA Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lostjeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · edit-24 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·4 months agoI read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn’t have added up to “1”. Which is why I said thats pretty racist.
minus-squareඞmir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoBut he said by today’s definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past
I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn’t have added up to “1”.
Which is why I said thats pretty racist.
But he said by today’s definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past
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