They’re even better if you only count white men
Those numbers can go down even further if you exclude everyone who isn’t a millionaire.
Nope. I think once you exclude women, the maternal death rates will hit their minimum.
Trans men?
As if they’d be counted appropriately.
True. They’d not give them any recognition.
No, no they cannot.
Sure it can with Trump Math™! The same math the will lower drug prices 1000%, 600%, 500%, 1500% can make this possible!
Truly, the only demographic that matters, in cases like these. /s
NaN gang represent
Ah, I have a modest proposal. Let’s count 60% of maternal deaths from black women. /s
A government can’t possibly serve the whole population. /s
I might be wrong, Frank, but my reading of the text says that freed slaves fall under “the whole Number of free Persons” and thus count as 1, not three fifths.
The three fifths compromise just said slave states shouldn’t get to count slave population to get more representatives. The non-slave states wanted them not to count at all, since they don’t get representation regardless. It’s wild to me that we think of the “three fifths of all other persons” thing as the bad part, rather than the “rich assholes who owned people got more representation than those who didn’t own people because the people they owned counted toward their representative allotments.” After all, the slave owners wanted slaves to count as a full person. The problem, as always, was slavery.
I don’t think it’s that “three fifths” is the only bad part per se, it just gets referenced a lot because it is a really indefensible example of how enslaved people were considered less than a person. So much so that here it is codified as a fraction of a person. Very in your face sort of language.
We’ll call it the…60% Compromise. Got a nice ring to it.
With gerrymandering that number is often much lower these days, so we’ve ended up even worse than the 3/5
Dudes a piece of shit still, but the article is 3 years old.
I’m sure those rates are way better now. Because of all the beautiful winning.
We wouldn’t want people to forget what a racist Sen Bill Cassidy is.
I hope this article makes the rounds again next year, right around the time he is up for reelection.
It’s a spambot with an agenda. And oh my did people get mad at pointing that out.
As expected racist pieces of shit.
May 20, 2022
There’s some truth to his statement as far as the numbers go and perhaps some correction is needed. Obviously, you wouldn’t want to entirely remove the stats of African American women, as that would be blatantly racist, but it seems some for of compromise is warranted.
Perhaps counting only half of them? or perhaps slightly more than half, say 6/10ths
This is gold satire.
We’re not 52nd in the nation in education for nothing!
NGL, you had me going in the first half
Perhaps counting only half of them? or perhaps slightly more than half, say 6/10ths
Very strong scientific and historical basis for going with 3/5ths. But if some stats make America look bad, I think 0/3rds would fix it, and fire the agency lead if they don’t go with 0/5ths of a person for black women. America was great when it was 3/5ths, and so 0/5ths is needed immediately to make America great again before my 3rd term election.
Here’s an article about it that can actually be read.
He continued: “Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.”
Maybe you should look into that, Senator.
Oh, it’s probably just genetic, just like how black and Hispanic men are uniquely genetically qualified to labor in the fields … /S
And our mass shooting events are pretty low when you don’t count bigoted white men.
So you’re going to do something to lower the maternal death rate for black women, right?
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“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality”
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so close…
In an interview with Politico, the following words came out of Cassidy’s mouth: “About a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.”
Scum POS. I’m sure he will start fixing the issue instead contributing to it.
I think he’s pointing out that this is a federal race-connected issue, not a local state issue. As in other states have similar stats if you group the numbers by race.
If that is correct, that’s a fair assessment. He should obviously work with the rest of Congress to solve that national issue, though, and he should really spearhead it if it affects his state more.
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This is from 3 years ago.
The quiet part out loud.
A Louisiana Senator saying something racist? Not News worthy.
