If you haven’t heard, Christopher Nolan cast a tranny as a Greek warrior and a black woman as Helen of Troy in his film adaptation of The Odyssey, which is a famous ancient epic written by a Greek (Homer) about Greeks. It is not the only incidence of what has been rightly styled cultural vandalism.
I have another term for it: Blackfacing.
I saw another instance of this recently, on TeeVee.
In the series, The Last Kingdom – which is supposed to be about the struggle between Saxons and Danes (Vikings) to control what was then not-yet England, in the years prior to the Norman conquest in 1066. As politically incorrect as it may be to point this out, there were no black Earldormen (nobles) in Northumbria or Wessex in what was not-yet England at that time. Or priests. Yet we see both in the TeeVee tale about this period of Anglo-Saxon history.
In italics to make the point – as if it needed to be.
In one remarkable scene, the king of one of the kingdoms (there were many at this time) is discussing what to do about a potential threat to his kingdom. As the camera pans around the table, we see not one but three black lords. We see black soldiers in the background of battle scenes, too. There is also a black priest who is not a minor character. The Saxons and Danes interplay with him as if it were not a very strange thing to see a black man dressed in church garb circa 980 AD in what was then entirely Anglo-Saxon England. Aye, there’s the rub. There is an element that wants to gradually whitewash away the fact that the West was once not “diverse.” The end goal – this ought to be obvious – is to eventually get to a point where the accepted history will be that the West was always “diverse.” Eventually, if this effrontery is allowed to stand, we’ll be presented with Black Charlemagne or Black Henry VII (and VIII, too). Caesar will be depicted as a “person of color.”
Alexander Hamilton was played by a black man in the recent, eponymous musical. There was a black lord sitting at Henry VIII’s table in Wolf Hall.
Does it matter? Does history matter? Does the truth matter?
Does the history of the Anglo Saxon people matter? It ought to, if you are an Anglo Saxon – because it is your history. Your inheritance. There are people – such as Nolan and the people behind The Last Kingdom – who want to disinherit you and would like for you to pay for the privilege, by purchasing a ticket to see The Odyssey.
I’d rather not see it. Not because I dislike black people – or trannies. Because I dislike effronterous lies. I despise the smarmy insolence of it. The daring us to notice – to say something when we notice – a black actor portraying an Angle Saxon earldorman in the not-yet-England of more than 1,000 years ago. Or a black lord seated at Henry VIII’s table 500 years ago – as if that were nothing to notice and object to as a historical untruth. That is to say, a lie.
It’s all a kind of reverse blackface – and it is meant to be demeaning. That’s why you don’t see Al Jolsen on TeeVee anymore. It’s also why you don’t see white actors portraying Martin Luther King, Jr. As they ought not to. Because Martin Lither King wasn’t white. Or a tranny, for that matter. Imagine the uproar if Elliot (nee Ellen) Page were tapped to portray “Dr. King’s Early Years.” Of course that would never happen for exactly the reason. There would be an uproar. Rightly so.
So why is there not much uproar when this blackfacing is done to assault Anglo Saxon historical characters and Anglo Saxon (Western) stories and myths and fables, such as the story of the Greek hero Odysseus and the Greek woman Helen of Troy? The answer is simple. Anglo Saxons are not allowed to be outraged when their history is blackfaced.
This here river only runs one way, capn’. Hadn’t you heard?
Well, we have the option of not taking a canoe trip down that river. We can turn the TeeVee off. We can cancel our subscriptions and not buy tickets. And we ought to understand what’s about to happen when they tell us that we look jus’ like a hog.
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The idea that there were black lords in England circa 980AD is beyond laughable, our woke overlords think were so dumbed down that we won’t notice the blatant rewriting of history. I think I’ve read almost every Uthred novel(series written by Bernard Cornwell that the show The Last Kingdom is based upon) and there are a grand total of zero black characters. Why? Because Cornwell is a historian who loves England’s history and wants to faithfully recreate this history for modern times and not to fulfill the wishes of ideological zealots who care for nothing more than destroying our culture.
Now, in Cornwell’s The Winter King trilogy(a fantastic retelling of King Arthur, also incorporates the fight between paganism and christianity after the Romans left Britain) there is one black character, Sagumon, who joined up with King Arthur while he was fighting on mainland Europe and everyone in the books referenced how odd he was because there were no blacks in England in the 500s. At this point I think we all need to turn off the television and start doing other things, why sit there and watch shit that is designed to piss in our faces?