The lawmaker, Rep. Ron Hanks, who is white, said his comments were misconstrued and that his point "was to kind of talk about the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787, not 2021."
Richard Holtorf, Colorado lawmaker, reprimanded for using racist term
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In April, Democrats in the Colorado House criticized another Republican lawmaker for making a joke about lynching before saying an 18th century clause in the U.S. Constitution designating a slave as three-fifths of a person “was not impugning anybody’s humanity.” The lawmaker, Rep. Ron Hanks, who is white, said his comments were misconstrued and that his point “was to kind of talk about the Three-Fifths Compromise of 1787, not 2021.”
Colorado GOP lawmaker who used racist term is reprimanded
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