re: #6 wrenchwench

I can’t disagree with anything you said in critique of this article.

There was a great book awhile back that had opened my eyes titled:

How the Irish Became White

amazon.com

With that in mind, I found a quote from Benjamin Franklin where he called Penn. Germans “swarthy” compared to the white Anglo-Saxons.

So in America, racism has an economic element to it that blurs the line between colors, races, ethnicities below the upper classes.