re: #30 Gus

Seems like a complicated issue. Watch this:

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Just the first half.

The 3/5ths Compromise actually kept southern representation down.

It’s undoubtedly complicated, and anytime there’s a compromise that is supposed to make further progress possible, it can be debated endlessly. But given that, and the sensitivity of the issue, perhaps the president of Emory could have chosen a different example of ‘pragmatic compromise’. He went on to say, ‘Something like this process occurs every week on a university campus,’ which trivializes it, to say the least.

As Smith’s next tweet says:

If you need to find an example of political compromise, surely you can do better than one in which black people were counted as part human.

— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 16, 2013