Absolutely true, Redangus.
My family is from Southwestern Germany, too, and my late grandfather did look - in terms of his light tan complexion and blackish-brown hair - almost as if he could have been from Northern Italy - although he had gray eyes - and was much taller than your average Italian🙂
Yours truly is also one of the light tan complected types, but my eyes are light green and my hair is dark blonde. Or rather, it used to be, as it is getting grayer by the day🙂
And Wardaddy is right about history being forced to serve a political purpose. Just because even Central Europeans might be slightly darker, this is no indication that they are black or had black ancestors. Especially since their facial features were/are nothing but European…
This always grinds my gears, as I am a historian by training, and I detest my vocation being forced to do the bidding of some political agenda, especially one which has obviously no basis in fact…
The left does this with history, they muddy the waters so much for the average person that history becomes impossible to discuss casually since it is so confused and diluted with things like this, there is no white past, no white homeland, nothing was ever white, so Rome, the Greeks, Europe, all the touchstones of Western Civilization and the European people and pre-1970 America is almost impossible to argue with about the modern world and domestic politics and policies.
We older people point out bias and fake facts while forgetting that this is actual “history” to the young of America and Europe, the mass replacement immigrants of our countries and the rest of the world of Africa and the Orient, and Latin America, all this is real to them while the white race is being removed genetically and from history, totally erased, even from memory.
I got my dad’s Scots and Irish genes. Brown hair w/reddish overtones now totally silver, reddish beard, blue eyes, freckles as a child and burns easily. Even when I do ‘tan’ it’s reddish not brown.