re: #7 Skip Intro

What is most amazing to me is that America has never really been “white.” Race has always been an issue - slavery and later Jim Crow; the routine treaty breaking with Native Americans; the Spanish-American and Mexican-American Wars and their aftermath. And that doesn’t even get into the fact that many European ethnicities that are now considered “white” were often considered not white when they first started arriving. But I suppose I shouldn’t expect bigots and xenophobes to have any sense of history.