On any given day it
is likely some leftist college professor is using his position of power to
influence young minds into viewing the constitution in a negative light. Never
teaching how it guarantees people’s rights and limits government’s power; today’s
professors push their opinions that it was a document that protected the
institution of slavery. Most kids have come up through high school even,
believing that the United States was founded by rich white men who only founded
the country for the purpose of propagating their own interests and protecting
their power and influence. The founding fathers were slave owners and therefore
they were racists. This is all the interpretation of left wing ideologues
seeking to use the minds of our young men and women as vehicles of social
change. While the issue of slavery certainly is a scar in the history of our
nation, it is one that sadly is not being taught accurately.
There are many
elements missing from the story of slavery in the United States. First and foremost,
the left would have you believe that slavery was primarily a white imperialist
institution that was used to secure the power of greedy white men in America.
What students are unlikely to learn is that slavery existed all over the world
and as early as the 1300 and 1400’s Arabs were purchasing slaves from African
tribe leaders and selling them across the globe. Men were sold into servitude for salt, gold,
wine and other goods. Secondly, African slaves were not even the first to be
brought to American shores. The peoples of Eastern Europe known as The Slavs,
which is where the word slave is derived from, arrived some time before African
slaves. In fact, when African Slaves did arrive they were treated better and
were worth far more than the white slaves. Africans that had been freed from
servitude had actually been able to own these white slaves as well. These are
just a couple of examples of what is missing from our history books.
The truth about
the constitution and how it pertains to the issue of slavery is quite different
indeed than what leftist radicals wish to foster upon our young people. While
our founding fathers may have been slave owners, they were also men of
conscience. It was the writing of the constitution itself that actually paved
the way for the abolishment of slavery. The founding fathers knew that a nation
founded on freedom would not be able to maintain such an institution. In some
ways you could argue that the abolishing of slavery is akin to the one hundred
year plan of the communists to change our culture. The founding fathers knew
that abolishing slavery would be no easy feat but nonetheless they took
incremental steps in doing so.
One of these
incremental methods written into the constitution itself is the three fifths
compromise. Ever a favorite clause of the leftists; it is one they often use to
spark a reaction from unsuspecting students. Imagine if you will being lectured
to about the institution of slavery and a professor callously proclaims that
the founders only viewed blacks as being three fifths a person. That’s how they turn people into Anti
American “change agents.” This is easy
to do of course because these students generally know nothing about the
constitution or the subject of apportionment for representation. This pertains
to how many representatives a state may have based on its population. Do you
see where this is going?
The three fifths
compromise was levied against the southern slave owning states as a “collective”
method of counting the slaves. The “three fifths” meant that the slaves were
only counted as three fifths of their population in order to limit the number
of representatives the slave owning states could send to the congress. Thus
limiting the influence the slave states had in the legislature. They also did
something that forced the slave owner states into an attitude of impartiality towards
the institution itself. This provided “conflicting interests” if you will that
eventually aided in the abolishing of slavery. They applied the same “three
fifths” rule as a means of determining the south’s tax liability that was based
on representation. These measures together were anti slavery provisions in the constitution
that worked to lessen the influence of slave states and the incentive to keep
slavery alive as an institution. (The Heritage Guide to the Constitution)
While many in
education are pushing the idea that the constitution was written to protect
slavery, and the three fifths compromise was a racist clause written to
subjugate Africans, the truth is clearly the opposite. The writing of the
constitution paved the way for the freeing of the slaves and the abolishing of
the institution from American shores. How many nations, at the time the
thirteenth amendment was ratified, still maintained legal forms of slavery?
Many nations to this day still do. In fact the United States was one of the
first to make slavery illegal and that is what our young people should be
taught. If you are a young student tired of your leftist professor’s delusional
diatribes, throw this at them next they say the founding fathers were racists.
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