House Republicans wasted no time in making good on their first campaign promise: to read aloud the Constitution on the chamber floor. But when it came time to actually read the thing, they decided to skip some of the more problematic sections that equated slaves and Native Americans to three-fifths of a person for purposes of calculating population. Apparently, even the Constitution can’t live up to Republicans’ expectations for a constitution. The fact that the original text of this hallowed document contains explicitly racist sentiments is inconvenient for GOP propaganda efforts, but even I’m a little surprised at the casualness with which they conducted their blatant censorship.
If this is a sign of what’s to come in the next two years, I’m going to start memorizing the works of selected authors so I can recite them around the campfire to the other malcontents who are living off the grid.
I love how specific three-fifths of a person is. Wow, someone really thought this through!