Irish Mike <
irishranger317@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 6:06:57 AM UTC-4, Otto J. Makela wrote:
RichA <rande...@gmail.com> wrote:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932548/mediaviewer/rm2977867521/?ref_=tt_md_4
More WOKE s-----.
He's supposed to be Roman, and 1st century Rome extended to North
Africa. Claiming there were no black-skinned Romans is just silly.
Yes, and very politically incorrect and un-woke.
Unfortunately, "politically correct" and "inclusive" writing these days
is often just as lazy as the worst white supremacist propaganda, just in
the opposite direction.
But historically, Romans didn't much care about skin colors, they were completely equal-opportunity slavers. The Roman army in Britain is
documented to have had "æthiops" or "mauri" (ie. dark-skinned) soldiers,
even a whole unit at Burgh-by-Sands (Aballava), near Carisle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aballava
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