Well a big congratulations to Emory University President James Wagner.  What courage!   Wagner collapsed into an unrecognizable pile of quivering goo when confronted by a bunch of know-it-all Emory students over an essay he wrote relating to negotiation and compromise. 

The issue here was Wagner’s use of the Three-Fifths Compromise contained in our Constitution as an example of, shall we say, a negotiated settlement.  These college students, who are at that magic age when they know everything, saw this as their opportunity to flex their mighty student muscles in protest.  After all … you’re not really a college student until you’ve protested something, are you? 

I can see these brilliant and precious little vessels of knowledge greeting each other in hallways thusly:

“Hey dude!  How you doing?  You like protested anything today?”

“Naw.  Just like got back from Starbucks.  Any like protests going on I need to know about?”

“Dunno.  Haven’t like checked the protest bulletin board or Twitter yet.”

“Well like let me know.  Haven’t like protested anything in a few days.  Feeling like unimportant, know what I’m sayin’?”

“Like, sure!  I’ll like let you know!  Later dude!”

“Yeah, like later.”

The lack of knowledge and understanding about the Three-Fifths Compromise is so widespread that for most of my 42 years in talk radio I had to deal with uneducated fools who thought that the Constitution said that black people were only three-fifths human.  Let me see if I can break it down for you.

1. The delegations from the various colonies were meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a Constitution.
2. The delegates from the Northern colonies wanted slavery to end, now.
3. The delegates from the Southern colonies agreed that slavery was to end, but NOT now.  Later.
4. Northern delegates did not want to count slaves as part of the populations of the Southern states when it came to apportioning membership in the House of Representatives. Southern delegates wanted ALL the slaves to count so that they would have more members in the house.
5. Northern delegates knew that if the Southern colonies did not become part of the union they would have little sway in bringing about an end to slavery in the South.  So .. the a way had to be found to bring the Southern colonies on board. 
6. A negotiation ensued and a compromise was reached.  A compromised that brought the Southern states into our union and, eventually, led to the end of slavery.  That  compromise stated that for the purpose of apportioning the House of Representatives three-fifths of the number of persons held in servitude (never a mention of blacks, and there were white slaves) would be counted toward the population of a state. 

Tell me … where is the outrage?  Nowhere does it say that blacks were three-fifths of a person.  It simply said that three-fifths of persons held in servitude would be counted as residents of a state!  If the Northern delegates had their way NONE of the slaves would have been counted, yet you don’t hear these ignorant college students and professional race pimps saying that the Northern states thought that blacks weren’t human beings.

But --- that’s the way things are in today’s academia.  College and university professors regularly cave to political correctness and protests by uninformed and blatantly ignorant students.

There’s a reason that at Emory they’re called Emroids.  .