Jamele Hill: mENtal DeFiciENt
- Fred
- Jun 26
- 2 min read
Editor's Note: Working Title was Jamele Hill: Retard
We are not fans of Jamele Hill here at Beacon of Speech, not one bit.
We don't like her extreme-liberal based journalism, we don't like her core race-baiting philosophy. But as a free speech website, we begrudgingly gave her the benefit of the doubt that she was, at the very minimum, semi-educated, seeing that she now works at The Atlantic.
But this might be the stupidest thing I've read on the internet since Covid started:
That statement is 100% false.
False in every way.
But for the stupid out there, we are going to make this very simple.
Back in 1788, Americans began casting their ballots for the first President. When the Electoral College adjourned in 1789, George Washington won in a landslide with 69 Electoral Votes. 1796 was considered the first contested Presidential Election, which John Adams won. Adams' victory was with 71 Electoral Votes and 35,174 in the popular vote. The total popular vote for both candidates was around 66,000. At the time, the population of the United States was around 4.5 million, meaning about 1 in 68 Americans cast ballots in the Presidential Election.
Did any Slaves Vote? No.
Did any Women Vote? No.
Did any Indians (Native Americans) Vote? No.
Did any Americans living in American Territories Vote? No.
Did any White, non land-owners Vote? No.
Did any White, 20 year old rich kids Vote? No.
Did all White, land-owners, over the age of 21, Vote? No. Even with that thin sliver of Americans eligible, turnout was still only around 20%.
The electoral college was invented a full 75 years before the end of slavery.
And the concept of the electoral college wasn't out of fear of the Black Vote....Blacks weren't allowed to vote. The electoral college was created as a compromise between picking the president either by Congress or by a direct vote of White, 21+ year old, male, land-owners. The Founders were originally worried about the unchecked power of White, 21+ year old, male, land-owners voting for Populist ideas.
Editor's Note II: Oh, the irony.
Slaves were not part of the equation.
Jamele Hill is screaming THREE-FIFTHS, THREE-FIFTHS.
Listen moron, we are going back to 3rd grade math.
If the Black Vote was equal to zero, 3/5 of 0 is still 0.
Now you want to argue that the Electoral College disenfranchises minorities today? I don't agree, but will listen to that argument.
Hill, on the other hand, continues to try to retrofit her societal mores into different slices of American History.
Without anyone checking her grasp of historical facts.
Addendum 3 Hours Later:
An astute reader ran "Did Blacks Vote in the 1796 Election" through the google search and AI stated that "Dozens of Free Blacks, specifically in New Jersey, voted."
If that number was hypothetically 50, that's still only .08% of the vote, statistically closer to 0 than 1.
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