Which in of itself is actually the real issue. People with more power and weapons and had “god” on their side, made up the idea of whiteness, and then created an “other” that gave them carte blanche to suppress that group.
Pseudoscience helped reinforce this “authority”, and it still exists to this day.
Remember folks, race isn’t real. Europeans made it up.
Those groups were only “white” when “colored” people became the scapegoat. White supremacists still continue to shift the spectrum to treat their own better than “the other”.