GOP Nominee In Virginia Praised Three-Fifths Clause As An ‘Anti-Slavery Amendment’

[DonViejo]

SAHIL KAPUR MAY 22, 2013, 11:36 AM

The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia has praised the Constitution’s original clause to count blacks as three-fifths of a person as an “anti-slavery amendment.”

In an April 28, 2011 statement while he was a Senate candidate, conservative minister and lawyer E.W. Jackson held up the three-fifths clause as an “anti-slavery amendment.” The context of his statement was to attack President Obama after a pastor at a church service he attended referred to the three-fifths clause as a historical marker of racism.

“Rev. [Charles Wallace] Smith must not have understood the 3/5ths clause was an anti-slavery amendment. Its purpose was to limit the voting power of slave holding states,” Jackson, an African-American, said in his statement.

This is a deeply misleading telling of American constitutional history.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/ew-jackson-three-fifths-clause-slavery.php?ref=fpa

[maidensandiego]

1. What a Jack-Ass

I'm an African American Woman...and this man AB-SO-LUTE-LY.... DISGUSTS me. He's a Poor Excuse for a Black Man or a MAN...PERIOD!!!! I was never raised to hate...but if I could....I'd spit in his freakin FACE !!!! It's the DIMWITS down South that use these type of TOKENS to the push their Sick Agendas. And these same stupid TOKENS kiss a lot of A#! And then they're every NI@!ER in the book behind closed doors. He's a DISGRACE.. to the HUMAN...not Black......RACE !!!!! Thanks for putting this out

[Arkana]

2. This guy's comically horrible.

If Terry McAuliffe can't beat the Gruesome Twosome of Cooch/Jackson, he had better not be nominated for anything ever.

[arcane1]

3. Wow, talk about having it exactly 10000% backwards!

How exactly does giving the slave states MORE representatives in congress "limit the voting power"??

[gopiscrap]

4. OMG I can't believe people would vote for a fucker like this!

[warrior1]

5. he's doubling down on stupid

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