The United States was founded on white nationalist principles

Con starts off by implying that the vast majority of Americans did not support white nationalism, especially in the South, since they lived with some black slaves. This is clearly an absurd opinion. I didn't know that racial supremacists (who treated blacks in an inferior way) would have loved the idea of coexisting with other races in a "tolerant" and "diverse" manner. White Americans imported blacks for slavery AND only slavery. That's the only reason. They didn't make this decision based on the wish to be multiracial. And no, most of America wasn't actually pretty diverse back then, as statistics show. White/Black Population Percentage 1790: 80.7/19.3 (92 percent of blacks in slavery) 1800: 81.1/18.9 (89 percent of blacks in slavery) 1810: 81.0/19.0 (86 percent of blacks in slavery) 1820: 81.6/18.4 (87 percent of blacks in slavery) etc... https://en.wikipedia.org... https://en.wikipedia.org... Compare these white demographics to the modern 60 percent non-hispanic white. As you can see, most White Americans, especially Southerners, used blacks as slaves. Even those who did not agree with slavery rarely believed in multiracialism. You fail to provide evidence of them doing so. Just because there were some blacks living with whites, should it mean that diversity was supported by most White Americans? Con speaks about the founders being divided in their beliefs (especially on slavery). This is somewhat true, but one thing's for sure. Their intention was that America be a white nation. Let's have a look at some of the laws passed by them. The early Naturalization Acts. They "limited naturalization to immigrants who were free white persons of good character." They "thus excluded American Indians, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks..." https://en.wikipedia.org... Yes, you will say that edits were made to the acts, and they were eventually repealed after the Civil War (as wiki states). Blacks were indeed given citizenship/rights. However, this legislation did NOT conflict with the beliefs of racial separatism or white nationalism (Equal but Separate ruling, segregation). Another thing's for certain. We need to have a look at the immigration acts throughout U.S. history. A simple research tells you that the US massively favored European immigrants, not African/Arab/Asian/Mexican ones. It set quotas on which groups/races were able to come in and which groups couldn't. While the govt eventually limited some Italian and Jewish immigration at the end, it cannot be clearer that the laws gave European immigrants an advantage (especially during the early 1900s). https://en.wikipedia.org... It wasn't until 1965 when the nation started to truly become a "nation of immigrants." Until then, it was a nation of European immigrants, mostly. ------------------------------------------------------------------ As you can see, America was intially very tough on race, and indeed the early founders supported white nationalism. The act of importing black slaves was not intended to "multi-racialize" the nation. Even when they got their rights, we still segregated them from whites. It couldn't have been more obvious that the US never legally supported "diversity" until the year of 1965.