Lets get rid of primary elections when electing our president

[Clueless Morgan]

And I agree with your comment about the south and eligible voters.   That the point is to boost the say of those in lower population areas, where they me be drown out by the larger metropolis areas.   Which I think is good.  It is their President too.  I disagree however, with your trying to make it as if racism is a reason for the electoral college.

I am not "trying to make it as if racism is a reason for the electoral college" it's a fact.

Initially, James Wilson, a delegate at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, put forth direct election of the president but James Madison (President 1809-1817) pointed out that the South wouldn't go for that because “The right of suffrage was much more diffusive [i.e., extensive] in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes.” AKA: The Northern free population outnumbered the Southern free population, minus the half a million slaves. So the Three-Fifths Compromise was enacted to mollify the South.

The Three-Fifths Compromise meant that Pennsylvania, which had 10% more free people than Virginia, got 20% fewer electoral votes. I.e. the more slaves any slave state bought or "bred", the more electoral votes that state would have.

It was because of the pro-slavery skew of the electoral college that 4 of our first 5 presidents were white, slave-owning Virginians, and it was that same pro-slavery skew was the difference-maker in electing Thomas Jefferson over John Adams (of Massachusetts) in 1801. The freed population of the South was not enough to elect Jefferson on its own.

To put it another way, "Thomas Jefferson metaphorically rode into the executive mansion on the backs of slaves."

I'm not making this shit up, it's American history.