Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "The TRUTH About Black Africans In Ancient Rome" video.

  1. Actually is more easy to become racist when you have occasions of contact with the other kind than when you are completely separate. That's why racism is more a problem in the US than in Iceland. What counts more is that, while people could be personally racist, there was not a form of legal racism. Black people were not banned from any position.
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  2. He wasn't black. He was north-African at best, but more probably the descendant of Greek colonists. Byzantine Emperors were Greek.
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  3. ​ @royalregalremnant_144khope6  Again, Septimius Severus wasn't what a modern day person, or a classic time person for that matter, would call black. He was north-African at best, but more probably the descendant of Greek colonists. Byzantine Emperors were Greek.
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  4. That coin was not a depiction of Hannibal. That coinage was minted in Etruria at the time of the first Punic war. Chartaginian coinage don't depict black men. There's coinage minted in Hispania depicting Hannibal's brother, Hasdrubal, and his father, Hamilcar, both with clearly European/north African features. Also Numidian coinage depict people with straight nose and high cheekbones.
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  5. "yellow" started to be used only to not call "white" people that were not European. Asians' skin colour is no more "yellow" than Europeans' one.
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  6.  @TotalWarGameplay  Again, Mixed? A 5% (to say, they were probably far less) of black people would have not left traces in skin colour or features in few generations.
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  7. You know that's a tale with no more substance than that of the Easter Bunny, don't you?
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  8.  @lordvonmanor6915  The number of the wisemen and their name is contained only in the Armenian gospel of the infancy, a document written not before the 4th century. The shrine in Colony contains, at best, the remains that Helena, mother of Constantine I, brought back from Palestine, as long as many other "relics", equally suspect, so contrasting even with the Gospels, that state the wisemen returned in their countries. That's the beauty of biblical nuts. They don't even know their sources.
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  9.  @lordvonmanor6915  Yeah, and the books of Sherlock Holmes had been written by Dr. Watson. Please... There's not a book with such a title in biblical tradition, nor canonic nor apocriph, BTW. "Adoration of the Magi" is an artistic subject.
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  10.  @lordvonmanor6915  A book written when? I too can write a book and say it had been written by Samson. There's not a book with such a title in biblical tradition, nor canonic nor apocriph. Maybe it's in the "fairy tales" section of libraries.
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  11.  @lordvonmanor6915  Are you 2000 years old? You are just talking about a book only you know, that you read once and barely remember.
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  12.  @lordvonmanor6915  It's incredible someone being able to believe this bullshit.
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  13.  @lordvonmanor6915  The bullshit is the fantasies you believe. See, colonists didn't came for a pleasure trip, but they made a choice anyway. It's different from being captured and chained in a hold.
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  14.  @lordvonmanor6915  You still want to believe bullshit I see.
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  15.  @lordvonmanor6915  No, I'm a little sad in seeing someone finding his history so insuffereble to prefer believing in fairy tales. But it's also quite funny.
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  16.  @lordvonmanor6915  Among the funny thing there's the fact that you believe to be annoying.
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  17. Sorry, but the Italian genetic picture is crystallized at pre-Roman times: Celtic-Ligurian north-west, Rhaeto-Venetian north-east, Italo-Etruscan center, Italo-Greek south, Greek-Italic extreme south, isolated Sardinia. The Romans of old were no different than the inhabitants of today Rome.
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  18.  @d.t.5400  Sorry, but you are wrong.
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  19.  @corymack6669  I don't know what you are referring about, and it has little to do with Mediterranean populations. If with "of old" you intend historical perods. Pretty much they are the same. That's not even a scientific theory. It's a fantasy. Fact is that the Italian genetic picture is crystallized at pre-Roman times: Celtic-Ligurian north-west, Rhaeto-Venetian north-east, Italo-Etruscan center, Italo-Greek south, Greek-Italic extreme south, isolated Sardinia. The Romans of old were no different than the inhabitants of today Rome. That's what genetic studies say. When we really get down to it "races" do not exist, but the etnicity of the inhabitants of the Italian peninsula from pre-roman period until now is the one I stated.
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  20.  @corymack6669  That's another fantasy. Not genetically, sorry. "Race" is a construct you like to use to differentiate people. "Cherokee or Comanches" are not mediterranean populations, sorry. That "Africans were involved in every society" (obviously in a fundamental role) is't actually a pretty sad delusion of people that consider black people's history not interesting enough, and so feel the need to hijack other ones.
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  21.  @corymack6669  Your opinion doesn't change the fact the Italian genetic picture is crystallized at pre-Roman times: Celtic-Ligurian north-west, Rhaeto-Venetian north-east, Italo-Etruscan center, Italo-Greek south, Greek-Italic extreme south, isolated Sardinia. The Romans of old were no different than the inhabitants of today Rome. You are entitled of your own opinion, not of you own reality.
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  22. That seems like Bantu racism.
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  23. Shakespeare is not an historical source on moorish people. He was a 16th century Brit that likely NEVER saw the Mediterranean. Otello's original story was written by Giambattista Giraldi Cinzio (in the " Ecatommiti", a collection of tales) that simply defined the main character as "moro", a term that was indifferently used for north Africans and middle easterns.
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  24.  @user-pj3ic6qw2p  A member of the "X was black" gang. They are quite sad. Since they don't think the real history of black people to be interesting enough, they prefer to hijack the one of others.
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  25. "Yellow" had only started to be used to not call "white" people that were not European. East Asians' skin colour is no more yellow than Europeans' one.
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  26. Emperors were different. Altough they were obviously treated with respect, it was a "familiar" respect. Romans didn't prostrate in front of anyone, and welcomed the Emperor with "ave!" The same greeting they would have used with the bartender. What seems clear is that, altough people could be personally racist, there was not a "legal" racism. Everyone was equal in front of the law.
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  27. Like everyone calls Europeans "white".
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  28. "then what happened with them ? after the fall of the western roman empire, all went home or all died or what ?" Mixed?
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