@jeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-22 months agoA Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lostmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1570arrow-down165
arrow-up1505arrow-down1message-squareA Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost@jeffw@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-22 months agomessage-square79fedilink
minus-square@Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink-1•2 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-squareඞmirlinkfedilink2•2 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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