That doesn't sound like our founders wanted America to be a racial "melting pot." In fact, it sounds like just the opposite.

Your country has been taken over by crowd revolt. Thus all the definitions have changed. The founding fathers didn't consider Slavs, most Italians/Spaniards, and the Irish to be white, either.

...The founding fathers didn't consider Slavs, most Italians/Spaniards, and the Irish to be white, either.

It would have been interesting to witness the outcome of America, had the 2nd wave of immigration never happened.
For purposes of reflection, I feel it necessary to bring up the following points, again:
1- Slavs are not given the credit due for being the puffer zone between European civilization and the savagery from the East. You could say that the Slavic regions were the "8 Mile" of the European continent.
If fate dictated that the Nordic races were to settle in regions presently designated as Slavic territory and Slavs had settled in designated Nordic areas, instead, how would this situation have developed. Would the Slavs have emmigrated to the North American continent and have achieved an Industrial Revolution? Would the Nordics have been subjected to Mongol, Tatar- and Ottoman cruelty with eventual slavery?
Nevertheless, history has proved that it wasn't Slavs who have camped outside the Gates of Vienna, waiting to barge in.
2- The Italians, on the other hand, don't consider other peninsular inhabitants of post-Garibaldi Italians as White, depending on which tribe asked. The Roman allowance of non-Whites to accept citizenry has obviously left its mark. The Germans and French are currently repeating this mistake, just to go off-topic for a second.
In fact, if you compare written dialects of different Italian Peninsula inhabitants, one could even debate if the official Castillian Spanish language is actually closer to the official Italian language than the previously mentioned example, given that the Venitian dialect has remnants of Spanish in it (derived from mercantile maritime commerce?).
The post-War Italian emmigration, to the Amerikwas, differed ethnically to that previous which more resembled current demographic trends of social polarization from dropping-filled nests towards those nests to be filled with droppings. The destruction of what once was a paradise created a motive for the refuge-seeking of Italians from previously productive regions who would otherwise have never dreamed of leaving their region for the unknown.
I'm sure the founding fathers would have had nothing against this post-war Italian immigration

Your country has been taken over by crowd revolt. Thus all the definitions have changed. The founding fathers didn't consider Slavs, most Italians/Spaniards, and the Irish to be white, either.

Once again prozak shows his idiocy. Do you REALLY think Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton sat around saying, "those damn slavs/italians/spainiards/irish arent white! they'll never be REAL Americans!" ??

White people always knew the difference between white, black and yellow. And then American Indians made Red, although Red was never quite as significant as the big three.

One white group may have despised another white group, but it was for being 'different' or 'degraded', not for being nonwhite.