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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Looks more like “Frank” from “Men in Black”.
I’m too old…
The Romans that survived the battle of the Teutoburg forest?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
“Examples include Jesus’ depiction as a white man, despite living in a Middle Eastern country”
It burns! The ignorance burns!
Apparently Sophia Alexandra Hall has never heard of Alexander the Great or the Hellenistic World.
Alexander’s men left blonde-haired, blue-eyed DNA halfway around the world.
“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.”
Thomas Sowell does, but I’ll be hornswoggled if I can remember which of his books it was.
The clincher on the “Egyptians were black” thing is that one of the pharaohs they dug up (Rameses II, maybe) had clearly black people painted on the soles of his sandals. It is said he did that because he hated the Nubians so much that it gave him pleasure to tread on them with every step.
The Nubians did conquer Egypt a couple of times, but never seemed to learn anything by it, and were soon kicked out.
If there are any pictures of him wearing his trousers very low on his hips otherwise as Sleepy Joe says, ”you ain’t Black”.
Wasn’t Michael Jackson a White Woman.😁
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