And since Detachments of English from Britain, sent to America,
will have their Places at Home so soon supply'd and increase so largely
here; why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our
Settlements and, by herding together, establish their Language and
Manners, to the Exclusion of ours? Why should Pennsylvania, founded by
the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so
numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will
never adopt our Language or Customs any more than they can acquire our
Complexion?

Which leads me to add one Remark, that the Number of purely white
People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black
or tawny; Asia chiefly tawny; America (exclusive of the new Comers)
wholly so. And 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. I could wish their Numbers were increased. 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.

Benjamin Franklin

(Emphasis in original.)

Franklin was not an old white man when he wrote this. By the time he was he had made his peace with the Germans, and he wanted to get reelected too.