Rep. John Conyers: ‘The Electoral College Is Rooted in Slavery’

cnsnews.com ^ | Dec. 7, 2016 | Lauretta Brown

[Campion]

By that warped logic, the House of Representatives is also “rooted in slavery”. So when is he going to resign?

[PROCON]

..and that would include Conyers, a low information congressman.

Says a lot about those who continue to vote for him.

[blam]

Is his wife still in prison?

Monica Conyers, Wife To John Conyers, Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Detroit Bribes

Slavery made her do it.

[Pollard]

Every college/university has a course called Critical Theory which is exactly for that. How to criticize white/Christian/capitalism/America
Then if you really want to be an expert, you can take “studies”, African American studies, Women’s studies. Pretty much everything but heterosexual white guy studies.

[del4hope]

It was that same USSC institution that John values so much to kill babies and create marital anarchy that decided blacks were only 3/5 a person. And of course if John is honest, he would admit that his very own party is the same party of slavery.

So yes, John must agree that they were only at least 3/5 human. Sounds hypocritical, does it not?

EV works fine and this election proved beyond any shadow of doubt as to why we can be grateful it is in place.

[Dr. Sivana]

At the time of the U.S. Constitution, most of the country had slavery.

As a result of this gradualist approach, New York did not fully free its last ex-slaves until 1827, Rhode Island had seven slaves still listed in the 1840 census. Pennsylvania's last ex-slaves were freed in 1847, Connecticut's in 1848, and New Hampshire and New Jersey in 1865.

BTW, states with the most slaves wanted them to count as a whole person (not 3/5's), just as non-voting women and children did for purposes of representation. The northerners (with fewer slaves at the time) wanted slaves to count for ZERO. They settled on 3/5's.

Lots of horse-trading here, but it would be more accurate to characterize it as an agrarian versus trade dispute rather than slave versus non-slave.

[SandRat]

Conyers is one of those SIXholes who thinks everything he doesn’t like is “rooted in slavery.”

[Dr. Sivana]

Middle paragraph above is from Wikipedia.

[DungeonMaster]

“All laws are racist, the law of gravity is racist” Some liberal politician.

[Altura Ct.]

blah blah blah

[Gay State Conservative]

OK then:

AMEND THE CONSTITUTION

[SandRat]

A god place to start would be Wayne State University in Detroit MI.

[MasterGunner01]

Oh, my...tax cheat and racist Marxist John Conyers weighs in. How cute.

[deport]

The 3/5ths compromise should anyone wish to read a short synopsis on Wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Fifths_Compromise

[outofsalt]

The Democrat Party is rooted in slavery.

[T-Bird45]

Levin played the audio of this guy on yesterday’s show. Sounded like Conyers was under the influence or just showing his age. He has no business being in the Congress.

[pabianice]

In related news, Conyers claimed that God has discriminated against reptiles because there are now less flying reptiles than birds. And it’s Trump’s fault.

[mulligan]

Just another stupid and ignorant Democrat.

[al_c]

Whoa! The anti-Electoral College crowd is getting desperate now!

[SES1066]

As the truism goes; “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” If these proponents are literate, I commend them to read “The Federalist Papers” and in particular #68 (attributed to Alexander Hamilton) as well as the “Big State/Small State” discussions from the ratification process.

In this case, for Rep. Conyer’s edification, Virginia was one of the Big States (population), along with Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York. So of the slave-holding states, only 1 of 4 was in that camp and then 5 (GA, SC, NC, MD and DE) in the Small State class. (Delaware was not locked in with the slave agriculture but it was still permitted and had a definite population of slaves.)