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TDale313
(7,822 posts)Of gettting all bent out of shape over the race of mythical creatures like mermaids and elves and dwarves?
OrangeJoe
(494 posts)Given how many Africans were tossed overboard in the Atlantic by slavers is it any wonder that mermaids are black?
Igel
(36,704 posts)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.
I was just being a smart aleck, but sure I think you're right.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)It depends on whose living room wall his portrait hangs.
BWdem4life
(2,505 posts)https://www.history.com/news/what-did-jesus-look-like
Major Nikon
(36,921 posts)or much anything else that involves critical thought
BWdem4life
(2,505 posts)Girard442
(6,617 posts)...people of that time and place would have just thought something was really wrong with him.
Marcuse
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Martin Eden
(14,142 posts)Little Mermaid is much more consequential than Jeebus.