Posted on 10/04/2021 12:08:27 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The classical composer who died almost 300 years ago, has been at the centre of a race debate for over a century; but does this mean we should disturb his grave?
German singer, Roberto Blanco, has called on the Mayor of Vienna to exhume Beethoven’s body for a racial DNA test.
The request is the latest in an over century old debate about the ethnicity of the German-born classical music giant. Beethoven died in Vienna in 1827, and Blanco addresses the city’s Mayor in a public YouTube video. He states his reasoning for the ask is ‘so that we can see if he looks more like you or me.’
Blanco, who is of Afro-Cuban origin, was born in Tunisia, before moving to Germany and becoming a singer in the early 50s.
The 84-year-old beloved singer has recorded multiple hit albums and appeared on a number of music variety shows.
Why is Beethoven’s ethnicity an issue?
While the question of Beethoven’s race has been in question for over a century, the theory regarding his ethnicity resurfaced in 2015.
A student-run Minnesota newspaper, The Concordian, had suggested a “white-washing” of the composer’s legacy, citing descriptions of the composer as having a “wide, thick-lipped mouth, short, thick nose, and proudly arched forehead”.
Also known as cultural whitewashing, “white-washing” in this context is the practice where historians, artists, and other documenters highlight ‘white’ as the primary and dominant race, consequently pushing or entirely removing ethnic minorities from the record.
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The racists also claimed cleopatra and countless others were black. Apparently after you die, you turn black/gay and vote democrat forever.
...in his beachwear from Bay Watch... no need to thank me for the visual...
Interesting. There might be a tooth, large bone, which you’d likely need for DNA testing to work.
“…A student-run Minnesota newspaper, The Concordian, had suggested a “white-washing” of the composer’s legacy, citing descriptions of the composer as having a “wide, thick-lipped mouth, short, thick nose, and proudly arched forehead”….”
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Hmmm.. it sounds like he looked like Babe Ruth who had German-American parents (both Mom and Dad).
It is the “we wuz kangs” afrocentrists who claim everything was invented by blacks and stolen by everyone else.
I hate to tell them this but Mr, Kitty is part German and his hair looks just like that.
GARBAGE
” He made great music - just like Michael Jackson did and just like John Lennon did.”
EXCUSE ME WHILE I PUKE.
Ludwig VAN Beethoven
The VAN is DUTCH.
One of my relatives was exhumed to move the body (after 60 years in the grave). There was nothing left but the casket handles.
Flemish is an ethnicity Dutch a language. By law and treaty Flemish and Dutch are the same language. A distinction without a difference.
That would be the case here, but in Texas, the aridity and heat could do a decent job of mummifaction.
She looks like Barbara Streisand.
Garbage post.
Beethoven had very few students during his entire life [Ferdinand Ries, Carl Czerny] and none at all in his later years.
Why are you posting this crap on a subject you completely clueless on?
Tests done on PGR88’ posts indicate high levels of cluelessness, which may have contributed to the purported insanity he suffered when posting.
Claiming Cleopatra as black is especially funny. Cleopatra was Greek/Macedonian.
Jarad Diamond in “Guns,Germans and Steel” does not address the real reason why there is none of the sophistication of other ancient and modern civilizations there.
No but Thomas Sowell does in his cultures trilogy, I forget which book. He blames the geography of Africa that has a smooth coast and no ports there fore seafaring, and the cultural intermingling that occurred in Europe and in Asia was not practiced. The tribes stayed primitive and isolated.
These people are delusional
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