Comment by SketchySeaBeast
16 days ago
It's certainly a point, but I don't think "the US presidents are white guys" is going to win any awards for research or journalism. Even Obama, famously the first black president, has a family history of white guys.
Today most white people are descends of that guy, but go back to 1732 when George Washington was born and you’re looking at a much tighter family tree.
It's true, but knowing that Washington's great grandparents were English certainly cuts that down a fair bit.
Washington probably thought of himself as English, for that matter.
England already had 8 million people at the time, so were are still talking class within England not just anyone from England.
It's a short history, considering Obama's mother is white. Or if you're only counting guys, his maternal grandfather is white.