Geography ignorance
Just got off YouTube where I was reading the comments on the new The Odyssey trailer, and someone complained about there being a black person in a movie about a Greek myth. Someone else replied that it was Hollywood putting them in where they didn't belong...
WTF?
Africa makes up the entire southern coast of the Mediterranean! If the ancient Egyptians knew about darker skinned Africans, so to did the ancient Greeks! They act as if there was no contact between Europe and Sub-Saharian Africa until the Age of Discovery. Ancient humans actually walked from Africa into Europe for crying out loud!
I guess this rant is both about ignorance of geography and history, but it just burns me that people think that there could absolutely be no black people in the ancient world. Thanks for reading.