I usually steer cleer of race related arguments/articles in my blogs, but i came across an article which shed new light on how the race of whites were formalized in history. Apparently the first inhabitants of America were blacks, and whites only started entering this continent as Europeans started arriving to the east coast of America. Interestingly, blacks had more rights than whites in America, until Virginia legalized “whites” as a new race in 1680 and granted them first known rights to whites. Another interesting anecode is that the Irish and Scottish are the first known true whites in human race, however, English laws didn’t consider them fully humans for centuries!!
Read this interesting article for more indepth history of whites and blacks from an historical perpective.
girish nair 