Yeah, well, Ben Franklin considered my PA Dutch ancestors to be not quite white. “Swarthy Palatines” as he put it. Times change.
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They don't, you're still a swarthy Palatine and likely Thuringian in character and thought
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I’m one of the rare Nordic ones. My sisters are swarthy enough though. One always gets mistaken for Native American. I don’t know about Thuringian though; I would say more Schwaebisch.
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No, they're already PoC
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Then Jefferson screwed Mrs Carroll and had a bunch black Irish slave babies he then auctioned off to pay debts.
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Andrew Jackson was a mulatto/mestizo I guess
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Patrick Cleburne was a Confederate general and fob from Ireland. The North were the real racists!
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@NewYorker article describes how#African slave traders were ‘white’ even while selling off their misbehaving tribe members and those of defeated tribeshttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-great-grandfather-the-nigerian-slave-trader …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Who can forget the New York draft riots when the Irish showed their solidarity with the southern slaves by murdering 1,000 black people?
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Race was a different concept in the 19th century. A German marrying French was considered inter-marriage.
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Are we talkin race or political allegiances? For much that millennium European courts were incestuous. Hell for a long time French was spoken in the English courts.
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French was spoken in all European courts because it was the Lingua Franca in Europe at the time. Different European peoples absolutely married each other and no one batted an eye.
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“Different European peoples absolutely married each other and no one batted an eye.” I don’t think that’s true at all. What people thought of as “white” continues to change and was much different prior to 20th century.
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It's quite uninteresting what you think is true because you are clearly wrong. The European nobility constantly intermarried, commoners usually didn't because they rarely knew people who lived far away. Who weren't considered white two hundred years ago but is today?
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You have a hard time tracking don’t you? Now, if you can, go back and find my major premise. (Hint: you’ve already asserted it)
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The Naturalization Law of 1790 clearly stated that one needed to be free, white and 21 to be eligible for citizenship. Nothing about sex or country of origin of one's forebears. White means simply Euro or Euro-American. No funny business here.
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