Toni Aittoniemi<p>Late 19th century americans thought <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Finns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Finns</span></a> weren’t white. </p><p>To stop immigrants in the US northeast from gaining US citizenship, as they were vocal union members, racists spread rumours to demonstrate that we are mongols.</p><p>We are some of the whitest people around. I have almost no melanin. My skin is effing translucent, i spent my childhood summers in shadows to avoid burning. 😅</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> as a tool of making the rich richer is so american. Skin color doesn’t matter.<br><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=0mwGtXJvpgQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=0mwGtXJvpg</span><span class="invisible">Q</span></a></p>