The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for May 24, 2012
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Transcript:
Huey: How goes getting out the youth vote? Tom: I asked a kid on the street why he wasn't going to vote, and you know what he said? He said because the electoral college essentially removes the power of the people to directly elect a president, and was designed to shift political power to southern states who could count three-fifths of their disenfranchised African slave population toward their representation in Congress and thus get more electoral college votes. Huey: Yikes! An educated citizen! Tom: I kept screaming "Vote or Die" but...nothing...
It was not the Southern states that imposed the three-fifths rule, it was the North. The South wanted to count every slave for representation, the North would not stand for it. They insisted that only three-fifths of the slave population could be counted. Not three-fifths of a person, three-fifths of the total population of slaves.