Republicans lawmakers across the country keep trying to whitewash U.S. slavery
Republican state lawmakers are not letting up in their effort whitewash elements of American slavery, with just two in the past several weeks claiming that the Three-Fifths Compromise was actually a necessary evil for abolition.
On Tuesday, Tennessee state Rep. Justin Lafferty took to the House floor to deliver an ahistorical rant about why the Three-fifths Compromise was actually "a direct effort to ensure that Southern states never got the population necessary to continue the practice of slavery everywhere else in the country."
He explained: "By limiting the number of population in the count, they specifically limited the number of representatives that would be available in the slaveholding states, and they did it for the purpose of ending slavery — well before Abraham Lincoln, well before Civil War. Do we talk about that? I don't hear that anywhere in this conversation across the country."
Lafferty's diatribe was met with rapturous applause from his Republican colleagues.
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No longer the party of Abraham Lincoln.
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