I'm just not as politically correct as some would like for me to be.

Well, I really don't give a rat's ass about the french one way or the other.
In fact, if they hadn't have kicked out the Acadians from france, my dad's ancestor would have went back to france and never settled in Louisiana, and I would not have been adopted by him or my mom, because she wouldn't have married the man that is my dad.
I've done enough actual travelling to have met people from all over, in their countries, and know that people are people.
I have a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology, and studied all hominids, and all flavors of humans from the beginnings of recorded history and earlier (My thesis was "The Effects of Myths, Legends and Folklore On The Development of Man Throughout History and Prehistory.".
And I guess I should have used the term "caucasoid"?
Calling someone "white" is not a judgement, other than for the basic tonal qualities of their skin. I used the term "white" to very specifically refer to the family who adopted me, and not to you, or anyone else.
It's my family, and I'll refer to them any way I feel like. They even refer to themselves as "white", so....
They have skin that most of the world refers to as "white".
I could have omitted that fact but, well, they were a "white" lower-middle class family.
I'm a pale-skinned half-T'lingit, and most think I'm "white" (I'm more pale than most until you put me in the sunlight for a while, then I darken out like fine dark brown leather).
No one mentioned slaves.
But truth be told, my tribe were notorious slave owners before the civil war. Not of Africans, but of their own people and other clans & tribes.
I like to think I would have had nothing to do with that had I been alive 150 years ago, but that had been their culture for thousands of years, so who knows?
I personally find it reprehensible.
I have a strong feeling I could guess part of your ancestry if I saw you in person from all angles.
The only thing about a person's genetic heritage that "matters" to me is with my fascination with all the twists & turns it took for people who's ancestors came from half way around the world from each other, and just happened to meet and start families.
That's one of the reasons I studied Anthropology.
My own genes started only 100 miles apart in eastern Europe and Central Asia. One set of genes went East to America some 17,000 years ago, and the others went West in the mid 20th century to come together to form the idiot typing this out for you to read.
As for stripping away individuality, yes: "white" is a blanket term for "caucasians". It is a colloquialism.
Sorry you were offended, but I won't be changing my vocabulary any time soon.