Will a movie about Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela be played by Brad Pitt or George Clooney?

So if we know Beethoven wasn't black, do you really think people making a movie and portraying him as black are seeking to actually convince people otherwise?

Like I said before, these are just alternate viewpoints, what If scenarios. It's not trying to change history at all. People are just not that stupid.

For me it's more about yes, we know the historical facts, but here's an alternate take on that character.

I really don't know why people get so het up about this.

There are crazy theories by people on the internet about white historical figures that they were actually black.

First I’ve seen photos on the Pinterest couple of years ago where there were claims that Greeks were black, Egyptians also.

Speaking of Egyptians that is actually more of a mainstream idea in Black community I’ve come to notice. I know ancient Egyptians were whitewashed in the movies but still that doesn’t mean they were black either, at least not most of them. There was a Kushite dynasty (25th Dynasty) for a while who ruled Egypt and they indeed were black, and that was after Nubian invasion of Egypt. Also people claim that Cleopatra was black, where she was of mostly Greek descent, Ptolomey dynasty were Greek Macedonians, but I read theories that Cleo was probably mixed with native Egyptians.

Also recently I’ve come across blog posts by people claiming that most of European royalty from middle ages and later were actually black. For example Bonnie Prince Charlie’s father (forgot his name) and sometimes they show evidence when they just darken the photos of old paintings. Also that blog was pretty racist calling whites “albino” liars who faked historical evidence and produced huge amount of art portraying whites as royalty, it was a big conspiracy just to cover up the “truth” of black Kings of Europe. It is pretty out there.

The last thing I’ve came across are books selling on Amazon by an author who also claims all of the above, but he also aded some claims that old mesoamerican civilization (Olmec I think) were of Black origin.

Both extremes are bad! Whitewashing on one side and blackwashing on the other. We need facts.

And there is a lot of interesting black history, even in old Europe (musicians on Tudor court, or victorian equestrian and circus performer, there was also a black violinist J. Bologne who they called Black Mozart, and A. Dumas was quarter black). Hollywood could do their inspiring stories and not black Anne Boylene.