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> u kike.

So, that's a yes on your name having been changed to pass as white.

> you dont have a single incident of a pole being not considered white.

Hello, McFly? Ben Franklin explicitly said you weren't white. Look, none of this is a secret, I'm not pulling this out of my ass. Its well established, uncontroversial history. if you weren't a WASP, you weren't white. You weren't black, but you weren't white either. You were considered inferior to real whites. There are literally thousands of books and papers discussing it and it was all simply common knowledge at the time because that's just how people saw it, some examples:

• How the Irish Became White
  
• Government: 1910s-1920s - European Immigration and Defining Whiteness
  
• Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
  
• The Passing of the Great Race
  
• On Columbus Day, let’s remember that Italians weren’t always white in America
  
• We Weren’t Always White: Race and Ethnicity in
  Italian/American Literature
  
• Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness
  
• White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable