Posted on 12/07/2016 11:52:56 AM PST by PROCON
(CNSNews.com) – Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) held a forum Tuesday on the future of the Electoral College, which he claimed was “rooted in slavery.”
“We also must face up to the cold reality that the Electoral College is rooted in slavery,” Conyers said in his opening statement.
Conyers referenced a claim by one of the witnesses, Yale Law professor Akhil Amar, that “states opposed direct elections for the president, because in a direct election system, the North would outnumber the South, whose many slaves could not vote, but the Electoral College instead let each southern state count its slaves, although with a two-fifths discount, they counted for three-fifths of a person in computing its share of the overall count.”
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I'm only surprised he didn't compare the Electoral College to Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Conyers is one of those @ssholes who thinks everything he doesn’t like is “rooted in slavery.”
he’s rooted in slavery too
but the rest of America left that behind a hundred years ago
By his logic we need to get rid of the Senate.
The Dems will keep going back to this well
until it stops working.
So Conyers thinks that slaves should not have been counted as humans at all?
Ooh a RAT throwing down the race card. What a shocker...
I am so sick and tired of listening to these stupid, ignorant sons of bitches. I can’t even imagine how wonderful this world would be without these liberal scum. They are truly a cancer upon this Earth...
John Conyers is rooted in slavery. Without impoverished, drug addled, crime ridden, out of wedlock welfare queens, gang homies, Conyers has no constituency. He fully intends to keep it that way.
The stupid is strong in this one.
Is there a school where thee people go to learn how to turn every issue into a race card play?
What a bitter old bastard. It must be devastating for him to sit there in his waning years and see Michigan in the Trump column on all those Election 2016 maps.
Rep. Conyers is rooted in stupid.
Says the Plantation owner to his slaves
The 3/5ths clause is one of the most misunderstood and mischaracterized things in our history. Most who bring it up have little understanding of its purpose - and that would include Conyers, a low information congressman.
Oh just shut the hell up! You and your fellow race baiters may be in for a rude awakening when your constituents see their lives can get better and awaken to the fact that it’s people like YOU that have held them down. I don’t expect it to happen, but I sure am hoping it does. You’re a disgrace Conyers.....to the black community AND the human race in general!!
Wonder why the only time the EC is complained about is when the democrats lose????
You've just simulated the entire DemonRat Party Strategy from start to finish.
Like how he mixes the electoral college and how representation was calculated. What a putz.
Whoa, what took him so long?
Yes, if all else fails, cry “RACISM!!!”
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