That Ben Franklin Is Such A Card

From Boston.com’s The myth of the white minority: “For generations, ‘whites’ have been hearing that they are about to be engulfed by unassimilable foreign races, and for centuries those ‘races’ have eventually become - white! Benjamin Franklin worried mightily about the threat posed to white American culture by the influx of German immigrants. ‘Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens,’ he demanded in 1751, ‘who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them?’ Those ’swarthy’ Germans, Franklin was quite sure, ‘will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can adopt our Complexion.’” [Hat tip to Adam for the link]

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