[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

Gays were never called three-fifths human in the Constitution

Neither were Blacks. Article 1 sec 2 (in a now obsolete passage) describes how segments of the States' population would be counted for apportionment of direct taxes and for the size of the House of Representatives delegation. It is there that the ratio of three-fifths appears in connection with the slave population. The passage makes no reference to anyone's humanity.

[N3WBI3]

And as there were free Afrian Americans it does not mention race either...

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Article 1 sec 2 (in a now obsolete passage) describes how segments of the States' population would be counted for apportionment of direct taxes and for the size of the House of Representatives delegation. It is there that the ratio of three-fifths appears in connection with the slave population. The passage makes no reference to anyone's humanity."

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Not only that, but, as Frederick Douglass eloquently pointed out back when the 3/5 clause was very much alive, the clause actually created an incentive for states to ban slavery, since free blacks would be counted as 1 (not as 3/5) for purposes of congressional representation even if blacks didn't have the right to vote. When Jesse Jackson says that the 3/5 clause was a sign of racism, he doesn't have a clue of what he's talking about, because the 3/5 compromise resulted from competing clauses between constitutional convention delegates from slave states and free states, with those from free states wanting slaves not to be counted for purposes of congressional apportionment while those from slave states wanting slaves to be counted as 1 (just like everyone else). That idiot Jesse doesn't understand that had the slave states had their way, there would not have been a 3/5 clause and slave states would have had even more congressional representation and influence than they would have with the 3/5 clause.