Benjamin Franklin openly advocated excluding all non-whites from America to increase the white population.
Evidence
- Franklin, “Observations concerning the increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &c,” in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Leonard W. Labaree (ed.), Yale University Press, New Haven, 1961, p. 228. Franklin concluded this essay with: “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.” Ibid., p. 234. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1717
Categorization
- CANDY: A founding father openly fantasized about excluding non-whites from the continent so Mars and Venus could see a brighter-reflecting (lighter) planet — startling as dinner conversation.
- SHARE: Worth sending to anyone who romanticizes Franklin’s Enlightenment universalism — his own words undercut the genteel image.