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17th May 2013

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also, this whole deal of claiming historical figures for your own race is kind of bullshit anyway, y’know?

like, ok, that one religious group that believed that jesus was black, and then white people killed them for that

was jesus black? it’s incredibly unlikely for a couple reasons beyond the fact that he was repeatedly mentioned as being from nearby where he preached, like how, if there were something physically remarkable about him, that probably would’ve made its way into the gospels somehow?

but jesus sure as hell wasn’t white either

and still we have fucking white jesus in our churches

as for the egyptians, i mean, there’s basically no credible evidence suggesting they were any kind of european or any other kind of white.  it’s almost certain at least a lot of them were black.

you know who else was black?

the mali, the songhay, the ghana, the.. countless other sub-saharan civilizations that i can’t name off the top of my head.. i mean it’s not like black people sat around doing nothing for five thousand years like most history textbooks would hae you infer.  timbuktu was once the intellectual capital of the world!  and nobody doubts those people were all black

so why the hell are we fighting over egypt?

as for other religious figures, i mean, abraham was from ur (probably), which is in modern-day iraq.  moses was a levite, which.. well, idk specific things about hebrew ethnic groups, but, y’know, he was hebrew

it bears mentioning that most people in the old testament would probably get pulled aside by the tsa at the airport

oh hey moses married an ethiopian woman

that’s one black person and still zero white people

anyway i’m gonna give up now because i’m tired and i don’t actually wanna sift through three thousand years of history wondering when jewish people became white in the not-poc sense of the word and pretending i still know what the original point of this post was

17th May 2013

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so i started looking into the whole thing about whether or not the ancient egyptians were black or not

and the best answer i could turn up was “some of them were”

i mean really whenever i come across the debate it’s usually people pointing to certain examples of egyptians representing themself with black skin or “negroid” (is there a better word for that? because holy shit) characteristics

which, i mean, you could also find examples to prove that they were all arab and berber and various other kinds of not black

but geneticists seem to agree that there were a lot of different ethnic groups hanging out in egypt not caring about each others’ race! there were variations from person to person of course but nobody seems to have proof demonstrating that the egyptians all looked exactly the same, let alone demonstrating that they were any one particular race

apparently tutankhamun was black but cleopatra wasn’t?

17th May 2013

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meladoodle:

we’re terribly sorry, but you can’t put your disobedient child in the stowaway luggage, you’re just going to have to carry on your wayward son

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17th May 2013

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Let me make this clear

melancholic-eunha:

rai-redemption:

This is cosplay

this is fun

this is expressing yourself and the chracter

for all fandoms to enjoy

no matter what YOU look like

or what gender you are

as long as you are having fun

that is cosplay

Hallelujah!

omg the zero one

i really liked code geass

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