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Shit Republicans Say About Black People

FUCKING PRICELESS!

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hamburgerjack:

knitmeaponyreblogged your post<span >: <em >So, Arizona has banned a woman from running for office because she doesn’t speak English fluently enough.

Deets on this racist bullshit: http://www.yumasun.com/news/cabrera-76336-council-english.html

And awful, as now I am angrier than I was before.

UURRGGGGGHHHH, what is my rule?  Never read the comments on news sites.  Why do I always break my own rule?

So.  Honking.  Angry.

kungfucarrie:

theafrosistuh:

SOURCE

The true identity of Ludwig van Beethoven, long considered Europe’s greatest classical music composer.  Said directly, Beethoven was a black man. Specifically, his mother was a Moor, that group of Muslim Northern Africans who conquered parts of Europe—making Spain their capital—for some 800 years.

In order to make such a substantial statement, presentation of verifiable evidence is compulsory. Let’s start with what some of Beethoven’s contemporaries and biographers say about his brown complexion.:

” Frederick Hertz, German anthropologist, used these terms to describe him: “Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.”

Emil Ludwig, in his book “Beethoven,” says: “His face reveals no trace of the German. He was so dark that people dubbed him Spagnol [dark-skinned].”

Fanny Giannatasio del Rio, in her book “An Unrequited Love: An Episode in the Life of Beethoven,” wrote “His somewhat flat broad nose and rather wide mouth, his small piercing eyes and swarthy [dark] complexion, pockmarked into the bargain, gave him a strong resemblance to a mulatto.”

C. Czerny stated, “His beard—he had not shaved for several days—made the lower part of his already brown face still darker.”

Following are one word descriptions of Beethoven from various writers: Grillparzer, “dark”; Bettina von Armin, “brown”; Schindler, “red and brown”; Rellstab, “brownish”; Gelinek, “short, dark.”

Newsweek, in its Sept. 23, 1991 issue stated, “Afrocentrism ranges over the whole panorama of human history, coloring in the faces: from Australopithecus to the inventors of mathematics to the great Negro composer Beethoven.”

And yet Western “scholars” want you to believe that Beethoven looked like:

 

If Western scholars knew (or admitted) Beethoven was anything other than European & White, we would have probably never heard of him, much less treat him as one of the greatest composers in history. 

^^^^^this.

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