Beckwith Pushes Back: ‘I Work for the People’
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s Lieutenant Governor, Micah Beckwith, says he doesn’t regret his comments about the Three-Fifths Compromise. Beckwith posted a video on social media defending the compromise, claiming it helped “eradicate slavery” and was “a great move by the North.”
“It’s never easy to address hard truths, but that’s what leaders do — you call out the lies of the culture,” Beckwith told WIBC Radio. “I heard a state senator disparaging the history of America by using the Three-Fifths Compromise in a way that’s not accurate.”
Beckwith says the Three-Fifths Compromise was the foundation that allowed the country to form. He says it wasn’t a pro-slavery compromise.
“It was the North trying to keep the pro-slavery states from having more representation in Congress. I’m thankful for our founders — for men who laid down their lives so that we could have this beautiful liberty document.”
On Wednesday, Governor Mike Braun said he wouldn’t have used Beckwith’s characterization of the Three-Fifths Compromise.
“I’m a believer that you better start thinking about what you’re saying before it comes out,” Braun said. “So, I’ll leave it at that.”
“I don’t work for Governor Braun; I work for the people of Indiana, and they’re so fed up with this woke mind virus that has been taking over their children and their children’s children.”
Beckwith also said Indianapolis faith leaders are pushing political propaganda disguised as a message of faith and religion — one reason, he says, that his Three-Fifths Compromise comments have gotten so much attention in the local media.
“The Democrat Party pays these churches to turn out voters to vote for Democrats,” he said. “There have been inner-city Black pastors who have told me that the Democratic Party will pay them thousands of dollars. So they’re not pushing faith — they’re pushing politics.”
