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To: Harlan1196

You tell us Obot..who did the Founders want to be President?

“Which leads me to add one Remark:

That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small.

All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so.

And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.

I could wish their Numbers were increased.

And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People?

Why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such

Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.

Ben Franklin

Kind and natural.

http://www.franklinpapers.org/franklin/framedVolumes.jsp


66 posted on 02/08/2012 8:17:21 PM PST by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1
You tell us Obot..who did the Founders want to be President?

So, if someone believes that one does not need to be white to be President, that makes them an "Obot"? Got it.

68 posted on 02/08/2012 8:24:35 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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