A Black woman has never lost the general election for POTUS in US history but 45 white men have lost

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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.

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

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