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more insane political correctness


as usual, the bbc has to rape a classic story with their obsessive multi-cultural crap. i nearly pissed myself laughing when i saw the black africans dressed in their eighteenth century european garb, poncing about like "european royalty." why does the bbc, among other networks feel the constant need to fictionalize history along racial lines? if there were blacks living in eighteenth century europe, they would probably have been slaves or very poor beggers freed from slavery, not upper class aristochrats. why are these white lefty types forever trying to weld the black african race onto various aspects of european civilization? is it because black people do not descend from a highly advanced civilization of their own, and white lefties feel guilty about that fact? don't these people realise that they simply make blacks look foolish. i'm sure black people, possessed with great, if not exactly an advanced civilization and culture of their own, have enormous pride in who they are, and do want to be portrayed as a group of people they weren't and aren't. and i am sick and tired of seeing my civilization and history as someone of the european race, being given to people who have nothing to do with it.

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YOU ARE A VERY STRANGE LONELY DUDE WHO GOES FROM BOARD TO BOARD TALKING ABOUT RACE AND BLACKS. LULZ. LOSER!!! ALL YOUR THREADS ARE ABOUT BLACKS. GET REAL.

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Ha...you have black envy.

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And you're obviously working in a roadside Burger King.

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i have not seen this series, but if it shows black women in the XVIII century in Venice it's not wrong.
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If you think about it, Alessandro de'Medici was very probably half black, and in those times actually even in England there were Africans who were wealthy and educated enough to compete with the local aristocracy. Read about the Sons of Africa.
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And seriously, Alexandre Dumas, the creator of the greatest stories from that period (the Count of Monte Cristo, the Three Musketeers and many others), was half black, being born in Haiti from a black mother. And if i remember right, Dumas actually wrote a book about Native-Americans in Paris in the XVIII century, exactly in the time of Casanova. So if you have Apaches and Mohicans in Paris, you definitely have Africans in Venice. You should read more.

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In addition to kaparotpov pointing out the historical accuracy of racial diversity in the European courts of the day (for goodness' sake, Othello's high status in Venice wasn't a problem for Shakespeare's audiences, let alone Casanova's), I'd also like to add this: even if history wouldn't back up diversity (which it would), there is always the fact that this depiction is non-literal - *especially* the scenes where Casanova is telling his story. He isn't a reliable narrator and is fancifying half of it.

Furthermore, do you recollect the scenes of courtiers commenting on Casanova's "outrageous" Italian accent? They aren't pretending to painstaking historical accuracy, anyway.

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