Idiots Who Do Not Know What They Are Talking About: Please STFU

So I was recently surfing the Internet, and came across a Glenn Beck clip. This has forced me to re-up this blog. In no way do I condone any of his hate speech, but to provide context to the article, I will post the video.

It is regarding the Three-Fifths Compromise.



This reverts back to the central topic of the post.. "IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP"


Let's tackle the Three-Fifths compromise enacted in 1787.

Glenn Beck starts his insane diatribe with complaints about how could the Republicans leave out the Three-Fifths Compromise during their gestural and nonsensical reading of the Constitution last week.

No where in history, except for the revisionist history of White Supremacists in Denial has the Three-Fifths compromise ever been regarded as a true shinning moment in United States history. No Civil Rights scholar, nor leader, nor abolitionist at the time marks this as a turning point in rights for black people. It is largely remembered as one of the worst atrocities the American government has perpetrated onto black folks.

The compromise was between Northern States and Southern States during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. For the most part the Northern States wanted slaves to be considered only for the purpose of taxation, but not counted for representation in the government. The Southern States wanted slaves to be counted as representation (all while granting them no representation) and have slaves not counted toward the taxed population.

If slaves were considered as part of the citizen population in the South they would have given the Southern States far more political leverage. This political leverage would have been used to vote for slave friendly politicians. Considering that in 1787, slaves did not have the right to vote. The more slaves the South had, the more seats in Congress the South had. The more seats in Congress, the more Pro-Slavery Knuckle-Draggers they could vote in.

The North is not clean in this matter either. Their viewpoint was to count slaves as objects for taxation only. This would then limit the amount of slaves, because the more slaves you had, the more taxes you would pay. If you allowed them to be counted as represented citizens as well, you would have to give the South more seats.

It was all a Political Chess Match, with the usual pawn; Black People.

There was a big dilemma, if the South did not get what they wanted, they would not join the Union. So to please the South, the North made the Three-Fifths Compromise.

This stated that a slave would be counted as 3/5th of a person for representation, and when Congress enacts a per capita tax they would be counted as 3/5th of a person as well.

This gave the South enormous political power, and the reason slavery stuck around for an extra 75 years. In the 1800 Presidential Election John Adams lost his reelection bid to the pro-slavery candidate Thomas Jefferson. This loss for Adams was directly due to the extra representation the South had. As history already tells us the slave holding Thomas Jefferson continued Slavery.

Did black people get rights due to the Three-Fifths Compromise? No. Were they allowed to vote now that they were taxed "citizens"? No.

The South wanted Slaves to be counted as a person only to further the slavery agenda. But when it came to rights for black people, the South wanted them to be considered property. The North on the other hand wanted Slaves to be considered taxable to cripple the South, but not represented so they could keep power.

Remind me again; How this ended slavery?

If this was truly a turn for the better for civil rights in this country the Three-Fifths Compromise would have been the 13th Amendment, 14th & 15th Amendment written and ratified into the U.S. Constitution in 1787 instead of 1865 (13th: abolished slavery), 1867 (14th: due process/equal protection), 1870 (15th: right to vote). There would also have never been the Reconstruction South where returning Confederate Soldiers came back from war to find black people with new freedom. Which they then spent 100 years trying to take away through Jim Crow Segregation, and anarchy. Also if the Three Fifths Compromise was so great for Civil Rights. Why the hell did it take 177 years to create the Civil Rights act of 1964, with the cold blooded murder of hundreds of thousands of black people?

Furthermore, if this huge fuck fest of "Bipartisanship" called the Three-Fifths Compromise helped to end slavery, why did the South have to leave the Union, and fight the United States Government to keep slavery?

Glenn Beck and these revisionist assholes who say they are carrying the torch of Civil Rights in the 21st Century for people like Martin Luther King Jr. (no mention of Malcolm by the way from them ever) know absolutely nothing about the Civil Rights Movement. These guys are no better than the douche bags who fly a Confederate Flag and claim it means Southern Pride. NO YOU INBRED BIGOT. IT MEANS YOU SUPPORT THE ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE, AND IT MEANS YOU WANT TO SECEDE FROM THE UNITED STATES. Yet you claim to be a patriot.

This goes back to the Central Point. If You Don't Know What You Are Talking About PLEASE SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!