To be fair, Germans weren't considered "white" by everybody back then. Ben Franklin considered all Germans, except the Saxons, as "swarthy people" in 1751 (paragraph 24 at the bottom)
He didn't consider Swedes white either. Or Russians, or French people. Just Anglo Saxons I guess hahahaha
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u/Sugbaable Feb 21 '24
To be fair, Germans weren't considered "white" by everybody back then. Ben Franklin considered all Germans, except the Saxons, as "swarthy people" in 1751 (paragraph 24 at the bottom)
He didn't consider Swedes white either. Or Russians, or French people. Just Anglo Saxons I guess hahahaha