always remember, history is written by the winners C. Hatton Humphrey, Developer Fisher, Towne & Associates 716-839-2141 x336 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:33 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Racism (was: I'll never understand...) > > > >From what I recall from that is that it wasn't based on Racism but the > opposite. It was one way for the North to prevent the South from having > a disproportionate number of representatives, thereby being able to > perpetuate slavery legally. By allowing slaves to only be considered > 3/5th's of a person, the north was able to reduce the south's > representation. Well, that's what my history teacher told me. > > Michael Corrigan > Programmer > Endora Digital Solutions > www.endoradigital.com > 630/942-5211 x-134 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nick McClure > To: CF-Community > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 12:24 PM > Subject: RE: Racism (was: I'll never understand...) > > > Correct, There have Christians, and a few Deists, and some that claim > no > affiliation. > > One things the Constitution does say that leaned to racist side was > the way > the census was counted. > > It was called the three-fifths compromise. The south wanted their > slaves > counted when it came to proportional representation and not counted > when it > came to taxes. The North wanted the slaves counted for both, some just > for > taxes. > > What was settled on was that the total would come from the whole of > all the > free persons and 3/5 of the others. > > That is really the only thing. If I am not mistaken it has not been > changed. Although there have been amendments that abolished slavery > and > other discriminations based on race,sex, color, religion, etc.. > > At 06:10 PM 12/18/2001 +0000, you wrote: > >well quite....but that's a whole different story!! ;) > > > >My original question was in relation to the debate on racism and > whether or > >not it exists in American society. I was interested to know if such a > >restriction existed in the constitution. Evidently not, although the > >requirement that you must be a 'natural born american' would > obviously > >restrict immigrants. It is true, though, that there have been no > Muslim, > >Jewish, Hindu or whatever presidents. > > > >will > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
