Were the first inhabitants of the Americas white?

Started with an interesting theory.

Then it went off the rails and made it about a political agenda, as though we're supposed to believe this is true just to defy cultural marxists, instead of due to the evidence being convincing.

Pre-Columbian and Pre-Ice-Age journeys to America have always been a topic of wild speculation, and as soon as a tiny bit of evidence for anything pops up, people will go fucking insane with it. I've seen claims that Neanderthals once lived in America, or that a Chinese guy mapped the entire world, including America, in 1418. There's a legend in which two strange dark-skinned men arrive in a canoe on a beach in Europe, and then shortly die of illness.

This one sounds a tad more convincing than some of the others, but it will take a lot more evidence to convince me that they had a permanent settlement, on more than a small part of the continent, with a large population. If all three of those things were true, we'd have a fuckload more evidence than what this theory is based on. Their DNA would be present in modern Native American DNA, just like how a trace of Pacific Islander can be found in South Americans. It's far more likely that two different groups developed two similar stone carving methods than it is for Solutreans to have crossed the Atlantic during an ice age without also leaving evidence seafaring through the rest of the Mediterranian and on African and European coastlines. And the anecdotal evidence like this: "...according to "First Nations," Louis Lesage, of his people’s oral tradition confirming that his ancestors came across a "great salt lake" from the east...." can be completely discarded as mythology.

The research sounds completely legitimate, and I'm interested in seeing what it produces, but let's be real. White nationalists are absolutely jumping on this theory because it makes the Left upset, and (through their own logic) gives them a better claim to the Americas as their rightful homeland. I'm not going to argue against the first reason, getting Leftists upset purely with facts is a fun thing to do.

But it takes some pretty twisted logic to claim that a Solutrean presence in the Americas makes it a white homeland. If the Solutrean Europeans did live in America, they were a completely different population than the modern Europeans who showed up and colonized America a few hundred years ago. Even if they were genetically similar, they were a culture separated by an ocean, and at some point stopped traveling between Europe and America, and then went extinct or blended into the new 'Native' American population. Solutrean Americans never showed up in the pages of European history. They never knew other white people. We only just recently found some evidence that they might have existed to some extent. No known person is descended of them today. Claiming any connection would be as absurd as an Aboriginal Australian claiming Hawaii is their ancestor's homeland. It just doesn't make any sense.

This is no different than when Multiculturalists tried to claim the Cheddar Man was dark-skinned. Modern methods haven't come close to knowing the skin color of any ancient human, but the researchers, who wanted to recreate his face, decided to take the 76% chance of dark skin that their (ineffective) methods were producing, and then the Far-Left jumped all over it like flies on shit. "See! Britons used to be black! Gotcha you racists hahahaha!"

This Solutrean American shit is exactly the same.

*Note: I am not the guy that downvoted you.

I don't think it really matters. Nature has been invading between species and sub-species for a long time. The strongest survive generally and evolve to become the natural inhabitants. If we live long enough, advances in genetics will make any questions like these moot anyway. Humans were never born with gills or weapons sprouting from their hands before either, but in time they certainly will be and they will dominate the environments they will be created for.

Unless, of course, the robots are better at it.