CNN’s Don Lemon seemed to find himself in an uncomfortable position on Wednesday night, as the guest he invited to bolster his argument about slavery ended up contradicting him instead.
The talk show host made numerous claims about how the Constitution “valued” slaves — and, as his featured expert obliquely noted, Lemon manifestly got his facts wrong.
Don Lemon started his program by discussing comments made by Tennessee State Rep. Justin Lafferty, R-Knoxville, about the Three-Fifths Compromise. Then, he devoted a segment in the second hour of Wednesday’s “CNN Tonight” to the subject.
Lemon told his audience, incorrectly, that the Constitution “explicitly counted [slaves] as three-fifths of a free person, or three-fifths of a man, so that the slave states would be able to accrue more political power without having to count a slave as a full person.”
In fact, the Three-Fifths Compromise denied slave-owning states their request to count 100% of their slaves in the Census. Northerners wanted no slaves counted; Southerners wanted all slaves counted — with congressional delegates awarded accordingly. More slaves meant more political power for slave owners. To assure all 13 colonies ratified the U.S. Constitution, delegates brokered an agreement that only three-fifths of all slaves would be counted.’
Exactly the 3/5 s was designed to stop slavery and to deny political power to slave owners
Talk show host is the correct description!
It’s tough for the host to push his fake news
when the facts counter his lies, and when
there’s a guest with big enough balls to tell it,
it means break to a commercial and send the
guest home.
lemon is an example of all that is wrong in black culture. That any black alive today would be dwelling on slavery just goes to show they are mentally ill and most likely not fit to live in a civilized society Normal civilized mentally stable human beings do not dwell on something that happened over a 100 years ago Only primal do
I can tell you why!! $4 million dollars of NET WORTH. Where but American do you make that kind of money to lie and divide for the Democrats???