Editing White people

<blockquote>''"Caucasoid" redirects here. Not to be confused with [[Caucasus|Caucasians]].''</blockquote>{{Quote|The [[Africans|black man]], original man, built great empires and civilizations and cultures while the white man was still living on all fours in caves. "The devil white man," down through history, out of his devilish nature, had [[colonialism|pillaged]], [[genocide|murdered]], raped, and [[exploitation|exploited]] every race of man not white.|[[Malcolm X]]|The Autobiography of Malcolm X|Chapter 10, p. 108}}[[File:2017_Nazi_rally.png|thumb|Whites in [[Unite the Right rally|Charlottesville]], Virginia, in 2017.]]
'''White people''', also known as '''whites''' or '''crackers''' (in the [[United States of America|USA]]) are a loosely defined [[Race|racial group]] that emerged in the 17th century for purposes of [[eugenics]]. It generally includes light-skinned people of [[Europe|European]] descent but often excludes certain European groups such as [[Republic of Ireland|Irish]] people<ref name=":8">{{Citation|author=[[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]]|year=2014|title=An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States|title-url=|chapter=Culture of Conquest|page=36–9|pdf=https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/10601/An%20Indigenous%20Peoples%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Ortiz.pdf|city=Boston|publisher=Beacon Press Books|series=ReVisioning American History}}</ref> and [[Russian Federation|Russians]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Ben Norton]] and [[Michael Hudson]]|newspaper=[[Geopolitical Economy Report]]|title=Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world|date=2023-05-24|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/24/debt-michael-hudson-oligarchies-greece-rome/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805062513/https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/24/debt-michael-hudson-oligarchies-greece-rome/|archive-date=2023-08-05|quote=Now we see even [[bourgeois media|Western media outlets]] like the [[Wall Street Journal]] portrayed [[Putin]] as a [[Mongolia|Mongol]]? Trying to link so-called [[authoritarianism]] to [[Asiatic]] heritage.}}</ref>

== History ==
The concept of race first began in [[Monarchy of Spain (1516–1700)|Spain]] with the expulsion of [[Judaism|Jews]] and [[Islam|Muslims]] from the Iberian Peninsula and allowed the Spanish monarchy to continue oppressing them even after some converted to [[Christianity]]. In the early 17th century, the [[Kingdom of England (927–1707)|English]] defined the Irish as racially inferior while [[Settler colonialism|colonizing]] northern Ireland.<ref name=":8" />

During the colonization of [[Americas|America]], whiteness emerged as a form of [[class collaboration]] against [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous peoples]]. The first use of "white" in an official document was in [[Commonwealth of Virginia|Virginia]] in 1691.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Eugene Puryear]]|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=The U.S. state and the U.S. revolution|date=2022-07-10|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/the-u-s-state-and-the-u-s-revolution/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604173435/https://www.liberationschool.org/the-u-s-state-and-the-u-s-revolution/|archive-date=2023-06-04}}</ref> [[Karl Marx]] wrote that this racial divide was a major obstacle for the workers' movement.<ref>{{Citation|author=[[Karl Marx]]|year=1867|title=Capital, vol. 1|chapter=The Working-Day|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch10.htm|quote=In the [[United States of America|United States of North America]], every independent movement of the [[workers]] was paralysed so long as [[slavery]] disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.|mia=https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/index.htm}}</ref> Many white workers and [[Peasantry|peasants]] such as [[John Brown]] and [[Newton Knight]] soon turned against their [[Bourgeoisie|ruling class]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Paul Wilcox|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Abolitionist solidarity — Black and white — in the struggle against slavery|date=2020-09-07|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/abolitionist-solidarity-in-the-struggle-against-slavery/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610064324/https://www.liberationschool.org/abolitionist-solidarity-in-the-struggle-against-slavery/|archive-date=2023-06-10}}</ref>

== Famous white people ==

* [[Jefferson Davis]]
* [[Jeffrey Epstein]]
* [[Adolf Hitler]]
* [[Ted Kaczynski]]
* [[Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor|Leopold Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]

== See also ==

* [[Social Darwinism]]
* [[White supremacy]]

== References ==
[[Category:Racism]]
[[Category:Pseudoscience]]