Racism means conspiracy to subjugate and actual subjugation. That means planned social, economic, military, religious and political subjugation of whites. It cannot be intelligently argued that the Nation of Islam is doing this. In fact, blacks have no history of harming or subjecting whites as a class. On the other hand, whites have it written into their very Constitution that blacks shall be considered three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation of their white owners. Their Constitution also makes provision for the return of runaway slaves. Their constitution [sic] is the bedrock of American law; it’s the best evidence of a white racist conspiracy to subjugate other peoples. (emphasis added)The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1865) abolished slavery; the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) changed voting representation to eliminate any reference to 3/5ths for non-free persons.
” whites have it written into their very Constitution that blacks shall be considered three-fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation of their white owners.”
What a dunce. Glenn Beck explains this one very succinctly in his book Arguing with Idiots, and it should be shouted from the rooftops to all the ignorant libs and blacks who smear the Constitution for this one section alone:
The 3/5ths thing was not to give “white owners” tax breaks, although Ellison’s statement about representation was correct, but did he ever know why? Obviously not. It was to LIMIT representation of slave states so they wouldn’t outnumber all the non-slave states, and so that through Congress, there could eventually be a fair vote to get rid of slavery. Since the number of states’ representatives was determined by population, the founders who wanted to see an end to slavery didn’t even want slaves to be counted at all - but they had to compromise, hence the “3/5ths of a man” verbiage.