For nearly a century after the founding of the United States millions of black Americans like me were still condemned to the status below that of full citizenship. When the founding fathers of America said, 'We, the people,' they did not mean me. Many of my ancestors were thought to be only three-fifths of a man.
To her discredit, she repeated the "thought to be only three-fifths of a man" line in other speeches.
She's a smart lady, and she should have known better.
White women were considered whole people but they didn’t vote either.
Non slave state politicians who had their own disenfranchised..women, freed blacks, etc, refused to count slaves whole and cede more political power to slave states
it was complicated but given that women couldn’t vote or have same property and inheritance rights I always wondered how come they got counted whole?
when did no property owners period start getting enfranchised?
the problem we have today is that too many who get a free ride vote...on the backs of the producers...
the founders feared this and with good reason