Because some idiot snigger somewhere claimed Hannibal was black. Sniggers have never done anything throughout their whole history. They don’t even have a history outside of white countries like ours. #whitegenocide
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Carthage was a place settled by the Phoenicians. Phoenicia was the name given to the nation that ancient Hebrews called Canaanites. Canaanites were, in fact, another Semitic group that came into conflict with the rising nation of Israel, and ended up being pushed back and away, where the subsequently fled across the Mediterranean Sea to settle in the western section of Africa.
Since when are Semites considered white by these people, again?
Also, when they settled there, they didn’t just wipe out the locals and take over. They assimilated. Hannibal may very well have been black. He certainly wasn’t the lily white they want him to have been.
It’s hard to say what the typical skin tone might have been among North Africans during that time period. There was a lot of cultural and intermarriage mixing all around the Mediterranean - lighter-toned Southern Europeans, medium-toned Semitics and Berbers, darker-toned Kush and Songhai - and even if we knew that, it doesn’t say anything about what skin tone Hannibal himself had, as Carthage was at least as cosmopolitan as Rome was, and likely more so.
No matter who they picked to play the role, in today’s political climate, it was going to make a statement of some sort, whether or not the creators intended to do so. I mean, if they wanted to make a really controversial and bizarre statement, they could always have gone with someone like Michelle Yeoh. 😜
Yes, they claim that - and the majority of historians (of all colors) don’t believe them. Just like the claims that Cleopatra (the descendant of some 300 years of Hellenic Greeks) was black.
Black ethnocentrists do not represent the majority of black historians, no matter what your racist ass says.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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