Hee! Classic.

Today I was sad to hear that the "Cruz Bustamante is part of a racist organization" is making headway even among my friends who are anti-Bush Democrat Muslims. They haven't heard much about Cruz, but they don't know what MEChA is and they'd heard it was a racist crowd.

Sad. :(

--Kynn

Nathan, you're too smart to repeat that old three-fifths canard. You know very well that the three-fifths figure was used for determining each state's proportion of seats in Congress. For this purpose, the slave-owning southern states wanted to define slaves as equal to a whole man, so the slave-owners would have more political power, while the non-slave states of the north wanted slaves to count for little or nothing. The three-fifths figure was a compromise. It would have been far better for the anti-slavery forces in America for slaves to be defined as one-half, two-fifths, or even one-fifth of a human being.

Greg- It's a bit of a satire on those taking MEChA's founding documents too seriously out of context. And it's far fairer to question the reverence for the US Constitution given that millions were enslaved under it-- what William Lloyd Garrison called our "Covenant with Evil."

The repudiation you asked for is here, specifically in the sections labeled XIII, XIV and XV.

Where is the similar MEChA document?

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