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A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost (self.showerthoughts)
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[โ€“] Lost_My_Mind -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I read it as him making a reference to black people being legally considered to be 3/5ths of a man back when the united states was founded. So if you go by those definitions, Obama wouldn't have added up to "1".

Which is why I said thats pretty racist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But he said by today's definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past