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juror4 · 2 years ago

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It's ridiculously and infuriatingly difficult to find some casual history material on the Moors because all anyone cares about is classifying whether or not they were Black... Shut up! I want to know about the arts and the science and the clothing and the crafts and the poetry and the battles and the culture! I don't want to do race science!

#Good Lord.#Oh if I want to learn about any European population's history I'll have no issue.#But fuck me for wanting to know about North Africans. That one's only allowed with generic orientalist music #And the stupid 'but who really were the mysterious Moors and most importantly were they Black or not???'#I for one would like to talk about anything but retroactively applying racial labels that did not exist yet onto historical people.#There is so much more to be learned here but that's all we can ever talk about when it comes to non-white history.#Especially because if you REALLY REALLY REALLY care about trying to classify the Moors...#The fucking answer is some of them in the modern world would be Black and some would not. They weren't a homogenous group.#Can we move on to the vast breadth of culture and influence that is being glossed over constantly now?#I do think it's good to acknowledge many/most Moors would now be considered Black but is that all? Is that all? Really?#It's so diminishing. The obsession in and of itself is antiblack...#The only other groups who anyone cares this much about racially classifying are like. Vikings or whatever and it's always to be racist.#It's always to classify disparate peoples who saw each other as completely different as definitely 100% white. We know why..

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