[Why So Serious]

A Time in America! Hey history buff, America has been around 236 years. The world has been around for several thousand years. I would love to know your nationality for this, but it is not important.

There was a time in America that blacks were "defined" as 2/3rds of a person and they could not be free. I wonder what your post would have looked like when they changed that.

There was a time in America that blacks could not go to school, sit in the front of the bus, eat in a diner, drink out of a public water fountain ... all because they were "defined" as 2/3rds of a person. I guess your recollection or history studies have taught you that the homosexual/Islamic agenda came to the rescue. And now all people are a whole people.

Women were not allowed to vote, and then the homosexual/Islamic agenda changed that.

In the early 1900s when my family came here from Ireland signs were posted "No Irish Need Apply" because they were "defined" as dirty.

What history have you studied. Our founding fathers [really Thomas Jefferson] had great vision. He was not perfect. He was one of the men that "defined" blacks as 2/3rds of a person, and he owned slaves. Tell me, was his definition correct? You would be well served to actually study some history. It would make for a better conversation.

Give me a quick snapshot of what your post would have looked like when they "re-defined" blacks to be a whole person from 2/3rds. Just for the entertainment!

[ansel12]

You are much farther left, and more anti-American than I realized.

Which country’s marriage laws is it that you wanted America to adopt at it’s beginnings, that did not define marriage as one man, one woman?

[Jim Robinson]

zot

[Stonewall Jackson]

[darkwing104]

How about a little history lesson from the Viking Kitties...

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Then, any one can have a civil union [man/lady, lady/lady, man/man, mom/son, dad/daughter, brother/sister, person/multiple people]

(There is no cure for stupidity!!!)

Well, you've certainly managed to conclusively demonstrate the truth of that, by golly.

[Old Sarge]

THOU HAST FELT THE FURY OF ROB,
AND ART NOW CONSIGNED TO THE FLAMES!!

[bcsco]

Where to begin... OK, I'll start at the end. You're gone. Whoopee!!!! Time for a little celebrating. What I don't get. though, is why you're so serious and argumentative. You sure didn't live up to your screen name. But then again, I suspect you had "issues" that just won't let you alone. Oh, well...

Satchmo ZOT!!

[Condor51]

Your handle fit your Tagline, troll. Your 'American history' is a bit off, so I'd try reading other books on the subject.
But all that's moot as you dared tweak the nose of the FR gods (which never ends well) and you: Got The Zot.

So ... as we FReepers say to trolls on their departure....

[DarthVader]

Why So Serious, the Viking Kitties will dine on your carcass!!

[Arrowhead1952]

I just noticed your tagline.

(There is no cure for stupidity!!!)

[Darksheare]

Hmm.

[pogo101]

(Guy’s been zotted, but I can’t resist)

As to your reference to blacks being defined as 2/3 of a person: You appear not to realize that the “2/3” reflects a compromise between (and IMO largely FAVORING) southern-colony slaveholders on the one hand, and non-slave-holding northerners.

It was the SOUTHERNERS (slaveholders) who wanted to count their black slaves as full “persons” for purposes of electoral votes and apportionment of congressional districts. Of course, the slaves would not get to vote, but that just gave slaveholders all the more power.

It was the NORTHERNERS who wanted slaves not to be counted, recognizing that the slaves weren’t going to be allowed to vote (a decision made by southern colonists) in any event.

The 2/3 was the compromise. It would have ironically been LESS racist, in context, to have counted them at zero, for the reasons explained above: If you’re not gonna let them vote in the first place, then don’t count them for other power-grabbing purposes.