As long as we're getting rid of monuments to slave owners,

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29. The Electoral College was constructed to give more power to white southerners, out of proportion

to their states' populations. As Madison himself said:

There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.

A racist policy, the 3/5 Compromise, was already in place to apportion seats in Congress, so they might as well apply it to the EC, as well.

Even now, the system hurts Black voters:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/electoral-college-racist-origins/601918/
Despite black voting patterns to the contrary, five of the six states whose populations are 25 percent or more black have been reliably red in recent presidential elections. Three of those states have not voted for a Democrat in more than four decades. Under the Electoral College, black votes are submerged. It’s the precise reason for the success of the southern strategy. It’s precisely how, as Buckley might say, the South has prevailed.