/lit/ - Literature

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I'll give some credit to Liberia, clearly they wanted free blacks but not in the US. However, it would have been very easy for the drafters to write "American Citizenship is only available to those of European origin". Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as well as many other American legislators were conflicted over slavery.

>I think the claims that people like the Irish and Italians weren't considered white is pretty overblown

pic related depicts an Irish person as an ape. Just google "Irish need not apply". Ireland were barred from freedom for hundreds of years (why do you think there were numerous civil wars against the Britsh?). Irish people were literally the niggers of Europe.


>You can't argue this.
Typical