The Antebellum African-American

The Rethuglican nominee for Lt. Governor of Virginia and Virginia's leading hankerchief head E.W. "Ewwww" Jackson must be getting his American history from some KKK publication.  A couple of years ago, he claimed that the U.S. Consitution's provision that African-American slaves were to be counted as three-fifths of a person as "anti-slavery."  Actually, this provision helped slave states to inflate their representation in Congress:

"The clause was demanded by Southern proponents of slavery as a way of enhancing their congressional representation. They wanted slaves to be counted as full persons but settled on three-fifths. People of African descent would have had no real rights either way. The inclusion of the clause greatly enhanced the South’s political power and made it harder to abolish slavery. The clause was effectively eliminated after the Civil War by the Thirteenth Amendment."

 The other day, we noted Ewwww's political extremism and militant homophobia, and no doubt that in the weeks and months ahead, he'll give us more twisted gibberish to comment on.

(photo:  Eyes by Bachmann, views by Jefferson Davis)