Our country was founded and built on the back of slavery. Our founders were colonizers, assuming and asserting that the white men should naturally be in charge. Only white men could vote, hold government office, own property, and all non-white men (and all women) were assumed to be subservient - in the minds of the white men as well as those being repressed.

The 3/5 compromise and the electoral college was enshrined in our country's Constitution with that in mind - the white men would represent the "others" in their states and districts, and enslaved blacks would count as 3/5 of a person when it came to allocating the number of representatives the states would send to the House (and thus the number of electors). This is because in some areas the slaves outnumbered the white owners.
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9 comments (Latest Comment: 09/23/2020 18:39:06 by BobR)

Take nothing for granted. The things so many people fought to gain, the things that seem like simple human rights can be snatched away in a moment.

I grew up in the '80s. I was young and unaware (until my eyes were opened when I started reading Ms. Magazine) that my desire to attend college was not yet truly mainstream. I was told not to have such high expectations. Financial issues were certainly part of the problem, but I soon found out another reason: I was female.
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14 comments (Latest Comment: 09/21/2020 18:26:27 by Scoopster)

After this week, this is a reminder that there is good, kindness, and pureness in this world.
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2 comments (Latest Comment: 09/18/2020 17:01:56 by livingonli)

Subberino
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8 comments (Latest Comment: 09/16/2020 22:32:17 by livingonli)

Monday's are hard.

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3 comments (Latest Comment: 09/14/2020 13:54:04 by wickedpam)