Misrepresenting and Disparaging the US Constitution

• As we noted last week, in 2015 Jesse Jackson, Sr. wrote, “When the Founders wrote the Constitution, Blacks were considered three-fifths human.” The Constitution of 1787 didn’t mention race even once, so Jackson’s assertion is patently false.
• Al Sharpton said that according to the original Constitution, “[a]ny black, at any age at any state, was three-fifths of a human.”
• Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s former pastor, declared in a sermon, Our country has been oppressing folks since it defined African men as three-fifths of a person.”
• Barak Obama, in a 2011 radio interview, declared that the Constitution “reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.” For a video carrying an audio recording of the interview, go here.