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You can't just change the character's race (Original Post) Major Nikon Sep 2022 OP
Can we also just marvel at the batshit craziness TDale313 Sep 2022 #1
Slave trade OrangeJoe Sep 2022 #8
Mermaids were local. Igel Sep 2022 #10
OK OrangeJoe Sep 2022 #11
What color/race/ethnicity was Jesus? keithbvadu2 Sep 2022 #2
Not really BWdem4life Sep 2022 #4
The white Jesus fans aren't too big on history Major Nikon Sep 2022 #6
oh, snap. nt BWdem4life Sep 2022 #3
And if he had been a waspy-looking dude... Girard442 Sep 2022 #5
Jesus would have had to wait until the gentleman was finished. Marcuse Sep 2022 #7
Yeah, but ... Martin Eden Sep 2022 #9

TDale313

(7,822 posts)
1. Can we also just marvel at the batshit craziness
Sat Sep 17, 2022, 07:38 PM
Sep 2022

Of gettting all bent out of shape over the race of mythical creatures like mermaids and elves and dwarves?

OrangeJoe

(395 posts)
8. Slave trade
Sat Sep 17, 2022, 09:50 PM
Sep 2022

Given how many Africans were tossed overboard in the Atlantic by slavers is it any wonder that mermaids are black?

Igel

(36,082 posts)
10. Mermaids were local.
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 05:37 PM
Sep 2022

And predated the Atlantic slave trade by 4600 years.

Babylonian, European, African, East Asian mermaids were all locally skin-toned.

Yes, mermaids were black. But not *all* mermaids were black. "There exists X in the set Y" is one thing; "All X are in the set Y" is quite another. It's highly unlikely that Homer's sirens were deemed black by those who read Greek when digammas were in widespread use.

BWdem4life

(2,463 posts)
4. Not really
Sat Sep 17, 2022, 08:15 PM
Sep 2022
In her 2018 book What Did Jesus Look Like?, Taylor used archaeological remains, historical texts and ancient Egyptian funerary art to conclude that, like most people in Judea and Egypt around the time, Jesus most likely had brown eyes, dark brown to black hair and olive-brown skin. He may have stood about 5-ft.-5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man’s height at the time.


https://www.history.com/news/what-did-jesus-look-like

Major Nikon

(36,900 posts)
6. The white Jesus fans aren't too big on history
Sat Sep 17, 2022, 08:50 PM
Sep 2022

…or much anything else that involves critical thought

Girard442

(6,401 posts)
5. And if he had been a waspy-looking dude...
Sat Sep 17, 2022, 08:45 PM
Sep 2022

...people of that time and place would have just thought something was really wrong with him.

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