How many white people are in the Bible?

Are Romans considered to be white?

Esau was white, was he not? He was described with red hair. According to the Black Hebrew Israelites, he was probably among the few (if not the only) white persons in the Bible and his brother Jacob was black.

Unless you're a Klansman. They hate Italians.

Define "white people".


The Hebrews were basically Arabic, and Arabs are considered Caucasian


Since the twelve tribes were hard pressed in Egypt, whether one takes it at face value, or whether one takes it as a motley crew, we get defined descriptions of the different groups of people. Eight tribes were local Arabic, most likely. The other four were descendants of slave women, so those four tribes could be African or white. 

Now, being in Egypt, one must figure some of the eight non slave tribes were African, but which ones? Maybe some clues could be found to give hints, but it would be hard to prove which ones. Almost surely, some were. I would certainly expect the Levites to be African in origin. I would suspect the eldest son, Reuben, to be African also. Since Simeon is surely a soldier tribe, I would think that would be another non Caucasian tribe at the onset. So the oldest three children were probably African. That makes Judah, the tribe of note, which was the fourth son, puzzling. I'm guess they were also African, since they were held in high regard.


Now, the Romans were definitely white. Much whiter than we think of Romans today. They incorporated what they called "Orientals" about the time of the Caesars. These "orientals" were much more attractive mates to the natural desires of men. We had to be taught to think of fair, pale people being attractive.  European writers first worked that propaganda, and it was latched onto by Hitler and Hollywood. The propaganda was unrelenting. Read the books of old English and old American writers. 


But in biblical days, pale skin was viewed more basic to primeval minds. The story of Romulus and Remus is one of two rejected boys who were raised by wolves. The white, fair Caucasian people had only one asset in their make up, the ability to fully use the milk of animals for nutrition. Thus, only those rejects who could survive on animal milk would breed more rejects. We see that today in the Caucasian race. For almost all of History, the Caucasian has been the underdog, and in the primitive mind, he still is. It's natural to hate pale skin. Otherwise, there would be no market for tanning beds and sun tan lotion, which we know is detrimental to survival. 

Biblical prophets during the days of the prophets and kings, they didn't need to mention this, since it was common knowledge. White skin was almost totally unknown, and totally unknown in most villages. Black hair is used to describe youth, and white hair to describe age. And lighter skin was a relative term.

The pale skinned Romans were important converts in the time after Jesus was crucified. It's laughable that old movies would depict Pilate as darker than the Hebrews, when it was exactly the opposite. Modern films do a better job of depicting the reality. Romans were almost certainly as pale as Scandinavians before they bred themselves to the beautiful "Oriental" dark skinned people. Only the poorest Italians couldn't do this. 

So, in answer to the question, the Romans were "white", and most biblical characters were somewhat Caucasian by scientific standards, although not considered white by today's standards based on Western culture.

Red hair is not exclusive to white people. 

True. Still, the BHI group who I mentioned believe that he is the first ancestor of white people (including Caucasian Jews) who are Edomites and Jacob is theirs as they are the true Jews.

That always seemed odd to me. My Italian grandmother was more fair skinned than her Polish husband, my French Canadian grandfather and my English/Dutch grandmother. 

A little over 100 years ago, they mapped race with language, so this was how they categorized Hungary and Finland:

Actually this does make me rather curious, who are the earliest known "white people"? Ancient Greece comes to mind, but I'm sure there were plenty of whites before that.