Only 272 years ago, one B. Franklin, that Franklin from your pocket, was wondering if the Germans are really white in "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc." [1] and if the German immigrants would really fit in the American spirit, 25 years before the foundation of the country. Just as a helper: white is never about the levels of melanin in the skin, it's about the we, the powerful. And now to fully blow your mind: one of the richest person in the history of our collapsing society is the orthodoxy.
[1] "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", actual quote from that one B. Franklin, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_Concerning_the_In...>
[1] "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", actual quote from that one B. Franklin, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observations_Concerning_the_In...>