wasn’t every other white person guilty of this back when they’d change their name fresh off the boat from “wojniewiczkowski” or “grunderstofferheinzten” to “smith”
That was actually just racism - the Anglos didn’t consider the non-Anglo Europeans to be “White” at the time, and changed their names on legal documents as part of the immigration process.
yes but the the Anglos were robbed of the opportunity to be racist to perfectly good non-anglos–they were socially raped by deception (most ended up mixing with them too)
wasn’t every other white person guilty of this back when they’d change their name fresh off the boat from “wojniewiczkowski” or “grunderstofferheinzten” to “smith”
That was actually just racism - the Anglos didn’t consider the non-Anglo Europeans to be “White” at the time, and changed their names on legal documents as part of the immigration process.
yes but the the Anglos were robbed of the opportunity to be racist to perfectly good non-anglos–they were socially raped by deception (most ended up mixing with them too)