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**Andrew1978** · 09-15-2010, 08:08 AM

Benjamin Franklin- "Why increase the sons of Africa by planting them in America, where we have an opportunity, by excluding all blacks and tawneys, of increasing the lovely white and red.”

---------- Post added 2010-09-14 at 20:48 ----------

Thank you! My point precisely.

Less than half the people in America identify was English LOL...

Nations evolve idiot. Could a Catholic be a Prime Minister of the UK 500 years ago? Tony Blair was not a true Prime Minister right?

Could person with an obvious Irish name (John Lennon) be called an ENglishman? I've never heard him referred to as an Irishman, although his name is quite clear.

Nations change, culture is fluid, not stagnant.

Franklin also said Germans were not white.

Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.

24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.
Are people with the last name Bauer real Americans??? We have a lot of them...we have had presidents with GErman and Dutch names were they Americans? Franklin thought they were not only not true Americans but not "white" like him.

You want to keep using 18th century ideas and rational for the 21st century???

As I said if most Americans thought like this Barak Obama could not be president, his father was an African Muslim. I doubt Ben Franklin would have approved...however polls after the election showed most white Americans approved and almost half voted for him.

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Andrew1978 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 565 Senior Member	Benjamin Franklin- "Why increase the sons of Africa by planting them in America, where we have an opportunity, by excluding all blacks and tawneys, of increasing the lovely white and red.” ---------- Post added 2010-09-14 at 20:48 ---------- Thank you! My point precisely. Less than half the people in America identify was English LOL... Nations evolve idiot. Could a Catholic be a Prime Minister of the UK 500 years ago? Tony Blair was not a true Prime Minister right? Could person with an obvious Irish name (John Lennon) be called an ENglishman? I've never heard him referred to as an Irishman, although his name is quite clear. Nations change, culture is fluid, not stagnant. Franklin also said Germans were not white. Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion. 24. Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind. Are people with the last name Bauer real Americans??? We have a lot of them...we have had presidents with GErman and Dutch names were they Americans? Franklin thought they were not only not true Americans but not "white" like him. You want to keep using 18th century ideas and rational for the 21st century??? As I said if most Americans thought like this Barak Obama could not be president, his father was an African Muslim. I doubt Ben Franklin would have approved...however polls after the election showed most white Americans approved and almost half voted for him.
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