As a black person and history buff it’s not racist questioning this or other instances where black characters were inserted in history. I’m tired of people telling me what’s racist or not allowing discussion on topics like this. It’s not racist that authentic history shows don’t have black characters it’s just history… Facts don’t care about you’re feelings I’m all for black characters but not forcing or rewriting history.

@alexaurelian8024

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I for example want to see a Game of Thrones style show taking place in the Niger Delta and Central West Africa region, set during the 1500s when they had all these powerful cities state kindgoms all vying for regional dominance. Now I would LOVE to see that, but I would be pissed to see them making one of the city-state rulers or even a official an Asian freaking woman for "diversity" reasons. It just breaks immersion and leads to people misintrepreting history.

@WR3ND

2 жыл бұрын

Also some epic history from other cultures and parts of the world would be cool too. Not sure why they can't seem to make much in the way of that sort of thing. If I recall correctly, in eastern central Africa there was a rather large and powerful kingdom with building ruins that still stand. Might make for a good show, regardless of if it's mostly or only African and Middle-Eastern peoples, so long as they aren't trying to force current hypocritical propaganda down our throats. Why not? Edit: Missed Alex's comment before making mine, but yeah...

@WoodenWizard

2 жыл бұрын

do you know about the black slave who made his way to Japan in 1579 and became the first black samurai? His name was Yasuke. This is a fact and there are statues of him. How is it so beyond the realm of possibility that blacks mingled with Vikings?

@WoodenWizard

2 жыл бұрын

isn't this show just fiction, and not claiming to rewrite history?

@WoodenWizard

2 жыл бұрын

@Isaiah Comfort since I am the genius, you can be the moron misrepresenting what I said. Try understanding art for once in your life. Watch Julie Taymor’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Titus. If it goes over your head, or if you don’t like it, its your fault, not the art’s fault.

She's portraying a Norwegian national hero. A white Viking man. I think it's a slap in the face of every Norwegian to have a black female play jarl Haakon. It's like having and Asian woman play Shaka Zulu. I don't think people would be to happy about that.

@AnotherDuck

2 жыл бұрын

Cultural appropriation is apparently okay if you do it to white people. I'd like to see what the same people would say if you had a white Viking ruler of some African nation and call it "historically plausible". The Vikings were diverse, in their own words, so it could've happened.

@ShebaFr

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnotherDuck there is this very racist idea (that they will deny anyway), that lead them thinking that sub-sahara Africans have literally no culture and no history all because Evil White Men enslaved them before they could develop their own. So, They, because of white guilt, are obliged to give sub-sahara Africans the culture and history of white people as moral compensation. Which is why we have Rings of Power and such.

@AnotherDuck

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShebaFr That sounds about as accurate as "the Vikings had no written language".

@ShebaFr

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnotherDuck The likes of Netflix and twitter feminists are treating Africans like poor children that must be protected from the trauma of not having heroic figures to grow up with, so they are seeing themselves as their saviors. The actual problem is that the crayola hair horde have no culture outside of Marvel movies and Disney, and never did research outside that confort zone. The African continent is no lacking of figures, most famous being Shaka Zulu and Mansa Musa (so loaded he drove down the value of gold) for sub-sahara Africa, Tunisian nationalists appropriated Dido of Carthage and Hannibal Barca the way the French did with Vercingetorix, and Zenobia of Palmyria became a rallying figure for Syria. Imagine if Netflix actually hired people to tell the story of those people! But noooo, gotta race lift Scandinavia....

@clearquartz1677

2 жыл бұрын

As a black person, I don’t feel very empowered or represented by black washed characters. I’m sure some black people do and I don’t mean to invalidate them or their views. If a new character is made up that is black, that seems like an interesting speculation to explore, but black washing feels like an insult to me. It reads as a hollow gesture meant to appease us so we’ll stop asking for our own stories to be told. It’s a token to wave in front of us and say “see, representation!” while still refusing to represent our stories in earnest. I also don’t appreciate that it makes us look like the very culture vultures that we denounce, reaching beyond the natural grasp for excuses, willfully misconstruing historical information and cultural respectability politics to get away with some mishandling of another culture’s stories and history. I’m grateful that people of many cultures are happy to share them with us, and I would love for is to share as well, but until we get to see our own stories told with the same caliber of story and production instead of these hollow gestures, I don’t see us having this privilege.

As someone of Swedish descent, hearing that article state that the Vikings have no written language is a huge slap in the face. RUNES, MAN, RUNES!

@matthew3009

Жыл бұрын

"RUNES, MAN, RUNES!" Sounds like it could be one of those memes from the late 2000's

@martinmayhew145

Жыл бұрын

Tolkien based his languages on the Middle Earth on Norse. Runes. It was definitely written

@IshanDeston

Жыл бұрын

That comment makes me sad. Yeah, runes were a thing, but a large reason why we do have lost the majority of Norse mythology and have to trace it back to just a few isolated sources after the christianization of the Norse is because they didn't pass on knowledge in a written form. This is the main reason we only have the Edda and Heimskringla from the 13th century and barely anything prior. The statement might be overly simplified, but that doesn't change the fact that the Norse didn't write books. They chiseled some stones, but before the christians showed up, with their habit of actually putting pen to paper and butchered the Norse Mythology and History with their interpretation, there wasn't really any tradition of written history, prose or poetry. It was all oral. Skalds that would tell stories. If not for Snorri Sturluson and his writings we would have less information about actual Norse History and Mythology than we have about the ancient egyptians.

@granockss9548

Жыл бұрын

Runes were invented first, when the Roman conquerers of gaul came in contact with german Tribes. This Was around 100 bc, a littel bit later. It comes much later into the scandinavian Lands, but yes, it was not written history in Our modern Senses, more like stories made for each ruler.

@Blackfox_Kitsune

Жыл бұрын

yeah don't have written Lang, their runes are only across all of the Celtic and Ancient Germanic nations and was and is older than the more modern alphabets we use today heck some letters from the old runic letters found their way into the alphabets today as well. Now how could that of happened if the Futhark runes were not a written lang? i couldn't help but laugh at that stupid statement in the tv show.

I’m half danish but have lived in Denmark my entire life. I honestly find the insinuation that we don’t know a lot about our own history and cultures incredibly offensive. We know a lot about the Vikings both from writing and historical artefacts as well as from the human remains we have found. We know what most vikings looked like and a lot of us Scandinavian people still look like that now. We have gotten more diverse, but historically we haven’t been since the climate up here can be quite harsh. We have many strong amazing women in Scandinavian history so making one up out of thin air and giving her a male name just seems dumb and lazy. Jarl is still a name used in Scandinavia and I’ve never heard of a woman named Jarl.

@mattjack3983

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've never once heard or read about any Scandinavian women being named "Jarl". That is 100% a male name. It would be like a woman whose name was "Josh", or "David", or "Mike". It just sounds absolutely absurd when used to name a female.

@ewonnestrand7298

Жыл бұрын

Jarl was a title then. Moore or less the same funktion as Earl in UK. The word is scandinavian. But Hakon/Haakon/Håkan is a mans name - her fathers name, but it lost the sufix - dottir.

@tatsuyatsujihara

Жыл бұрын

​@@ewonnestrand7298 says the stalker who desperately needs attention. So why did you stalk this lady? It's illegal if you don't know. Get that straight right now because I would love to see you locked up. 😂😆😆😂😂🤣🤣🤣 if you have mental illness I'd recommend you stay clear of all women. It only makes you look like an incel and a narcissistic freak.

@Christymusen

Жыл бұрын

Jarl was a title not a name. like Baron, Count and King

@MyBrainGlows

Жыл бұрын

true, but for the average american the history and the world looks like a hollywood product.

The short answer is: “No, there were literally no black jarls.” Now, the long answer, on the other hand, is: “No”

@ninototo1

Жыл бұрын

You should write a thesis on this

@sew_gal7340

Жыл бұрын

many reasons why i canceled my netflix accnt

@sterlinwalker4279

Жыл бұрын

Obviously we didn't see ourselves as black, but always described Caucasoid's.

@tokeherkild8038

Жыл бұрын

I doubt it happened, but, on the other hand if a black slave won his/her freedom, and showed leader capabilities, it could have happened. But I've not seen any mention of it.

@sew_gal7340

Жыл бұрын

Amazon virtue signaling, saturating their films and shows with wokeness, while in real life they silence all unions...oppress their workers, and force employees to pee in bottles. 75% of their base are black workers, who are forced to work like dogs with zero compensation...but oh Amaz0n has woke content...it means they are liberal!! Democracy!! Amazing!! Watch their films or youre R4cist! Never mind that we have a master/slave relationship at our factories!!! We are woke!!! Distract distract distract...maybe they won't notice!! Maybe blk people will let it slide because our prime channels have all black content!! Thank you BLK people, your contributions allowed the grand master to ascend into space, while you people grovel on the ground to feed your kids. But yes, thank your lucky stars they even took the time to include your skin tone in a tv show!!!

As to the idea about Vikings being more tolerant of LGBT-minorities. There is a historical insult in old Norse language that was considered so vile that in some places you were not only legally allowed to kill a person who called you this name, but you were OBLIGED to kill the person who called you this, or else the rest of society would assume that the insult is true and you would lose your social standing completely. This insult is "Rasragr". It's refers to a man who will adopt a sexually submissive position during intercourse with another man (I'll let you who read this figure out what that means in detail). A culture that promotes the killing of people who insult you by refering to you as homosexual will hardly be a very "tolerant" culture towards homosexuality in general.

@Nickname-hier-einfuegen

2 жыл бұрын

"Homosexuality" as we think of it is a modern or at least post ancient concept anyway. It's basically the same in ancient Rome and Greek: Nobody cared if a higher ranking man had sex with a male slave, servant, minor boy, or low ranking man as long as he was the active part. Even in ancient Athene, which we like to think of as tolerant, getting caught as being the passive part of homosexual sex ruined your social position. Abusing minors? No problem. Being the passive part of it? You're done. It's not even a matter of "tolerance vs intolerance". They had fundamentally different categories for these things.

@imapleb4956

2 жыл бұрын

Like the other guy said, its not a tolerance thing. They just viewed things differently. If a culture exists that states the only way to get to “heaven” is to die in battle, they probably aren’t gonna think letting another man fuck you in the ass is kosher 😂😂. That being said, the actual “law” itself states that the homosexual interactions are allowed as long as one is the active part. Meaning the man whos plowing the other man is fine while the man being plowed isn’t.

@jasonito23

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nickname-hier-einfuegen I'm glad that you point out that you can't really evaluate Ancient culture through modern culture and lenses.

@revilo178

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nickname-hier-einfuegen You are 100% right. I think, however, that the TO's basic point stands: this show seems to portray the Vikings as basically 'woke' if a bit violent (but then they're violent against Christianity, so it's ok, even progressive). In truth they were anything but. Their attitude toward playing the passive part during intercourse certainly flies in the face of anything that counts as 'woke' these days; it would likely be described as "toxic masculinity".

@dusk6159

2 жыл бұрын

@@revilo178 For sure it would be an ironical snippet, of the many more flawed and ironic parts of all of this, if the Vikings would have been portrayed in their involvements in the Crusades against the muslim world. That would definitely not be as convenient.

As a teen, my mom fascinated everyone she met in Scandinavia. They’d never seen a black person before.

@stukablyat7136

11 ай бұрын

This is true for Denmark in the 60’s to 80’s when my mom grew up. In their town there was only one non ethnically danish family, and they were from China. Of course people had seen black people on record labels and so forth, but outside the capital, Copenhagen, Denmark was a largely homogeneous people. Of course things are much different here today haha

@hydrolito

9 ай бұрын

Bill "Bojangle" Robinson was in movies in the 1930's and Nat King Cole had TV show in 1950's so they should have seen them on TV.

@jim6690

9 ай бұрын

@@hydrolito You're kidding, right? Are you really unable to comprehend what she's saying?

@christophermonceux6578

8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of that scene in Family Guy. Ja... Blackensippen And there's just a crowd of blonde swedes watching a black guy sip a cup of coffee lol

@pepita2437

8 ай бұрын

THIS!!!! I live in Romania, and my grandma have never seen a black person outside of TV. My mom met an African American when she was in her 40s. The only black person I have ever met was during my university student years, when I went to a different city to learn. And the city I was born, and brought up is considered a 'big' city with it's 80,000 citizens, it's the biggest city in the county. Even in the city I spent my University years, some of the exchange students had to go during the winters, couldn't tolerate the cold. And my hometown is even colder, since it's on the mountains (Hargita)

Haakon is such a masculine name as well and also the current crown prince of Norway, the name literally means "chosen son" 😆 It's like naming a random English female ruler Edward or Alfred.

I am black and I am sick of all this bull. I want proper representation across the board and I will always prefer realistic historical accuracy to forced politics any day of the week.

@iamthe80s49

2 жыл бұрын

Don't you think blacks are overrepresented at this point. By watching media now you would think America was 50% black.

@midvalley009

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamthe80s49 I do. Like I said. Proper repsentaion. Nothing forced, be realistic about it.

@JGD185

2 жыл бұрын

@@midvalley009 I would like to see shows or movies done about real African culture. Something about Mali or the Zulus would be cool. And I don't want to see any white main characters in it unless they are outside characters like explorers etc. But these show creators are lazy af and lack any creativity to try something new, it's much easier to raceswap characters for an established series. Same thing with Marvel when they take an existing character and make them black or female or gay, just plain lazy.

@mbern4530

2 жыл бұрын

@@JGD185 There is a show from the mid 80s called Shaka Zulu that is fantastic. It tells the story of Shaka Zulu and how he turned the Zulu into a powerful nation. Despite being old it has aged very well and I highly recommend it.

@nooneshome8746

2 жыл бұрын

well there is a show. Black Panther

As a scandinavian. This is truly triggering. Netflix's just bringing in modern thinking and inclusivity into ancient history. This is completely wrong and ruins our historical culture. I'm sure if a white british woman was a ruler in a zulu tribe with a historical zulu chief name it would be worse to Netflix even tho it's the completely same problem with this shit series.

@Theeoutcaste

2 жыл бұрын

It would be an insult to African culture.

@averagemeatballsenjoyer817

2 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Linley That would be both funny and making a good point.

@banankaka33

2 жыл бұрын

As a skandi I see your points but I feel like it is a bit too obvious to get that worked up about. No?

@olimpiano8760

2 жыл бұрын

Jesus, you are that fragile

@randlebrowne2048

2 жыл бұрын

It, like most of the "Woke" media, is cultural *vandalism* .

As someone who has viking heritage, I find this offensive and no different than what is happening with the Egyptians and Cleopatra or a white man playing an African American or African. Having done a lot of research on this subject myself there wasn't an Earl that was African or Egyptian. I was looking forward to seeing this as a close to reality historical story about my heritage but I see now that we can't even get that. Totally agree with you. Hollywood is actually being racist towards African culture by not actually telling African stories. I'd love to learn more about their culture but there's very little out there.

@Tenebarum

Жыл бұрын

As if the Vikings said yeah. I want to bring back women from primitive cultures to be rulers when they had the world to choose from. The Spanish conquistadors didn't bring little brown women back from Central America. Why would they? They conquered, raped, pillaged, and went back to their countries and married their women.

@jakomioftherose2434

Жыл бұрын

Black washing is real. As a proud Swedish man.

@melvynobrien6193

Жыл бұрын

They should do a Civil War movie with Robert E. Lee played by a black lesbian in a wheelchair, who wins the Battle of Gettysburg.

@leviathan1082

Жыл бұрын

I second this, my great grandfather from my father's side was Norwegian, I would love to see and / or read about real historical stories of my Norwegian Scandinavian heritage. As is through ancestry, I already know that I may potentially be related to Leif Erikson.

@userx6679

Жыл бұрын

@@leviathan1082 nice I found out that I'm related to Rollo of Normandy. They literally made a show about some of my ancestors. Took me over 20 years to get all the information on it or find out that I am. Only my (fathers mother) grandmother's side was connected to the royal family. Can't find much on my dad's side or mother's side.

The fact, that you have to make a lenghtly video to explain that a female, african-black Viking Jarl is absolutely ridiculous, speaks volumes about how far this historical revisionism BS and the stupidity of society has come. It's like if a Han Chinese woman would be ruling over a kingdom of Zulus or Masai! With every day, we come closer and closer to the society depicted in the movie "Idiocracy".

@wisedragon173

2 жыл бұрын

All white historically accurate movies are banned by Netflix and BBC.

@rogerramjet8637

2 жыл бұрын

every day we get closer to idiocracy

@stevenchavis3105

2 жыл бұрын

There were ottoman traders as far as iceland though, we know that. And also the "runes" were most likely based on the punic languages, which means they had a close relationship with the people of Spain (Which makes sense because they are Seabourn just like the Northman and would have easily found each other.

@doublep1980

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenchavis3105 1). Ottomans are not black Africans, they're TURKS. 2). Before the Ottomans, the Vikings had trade relationships with the Byzantine Empire, even worked as mercenaries for the Byzantine Emperors (Varangian Guard). The Northman movie actually mentions that they're selling slaves to Constantinople. The Byzantines were also NOT black Africans, they were ethnically greco-romans. (the Franks and Venetians called them Greeks.) 3). Punic or Spaniards are also NOT black-Africans. 4). Having trade relationships with other nations doesn't mean, that your rulers are people from said nations. Marco Polo travelled to the court of Kublai Khan, but in no way or form was he ruling over the Mongols. 5). If anything, a black African woman would have ended up in medieval Scandinavia as a slave and would be an exotic ''status symbol'' for some Viking ruler, NOT ruling herself over them. Stop making excuses for ret*rded, historical revisionist BS!

@rainzpourz4963

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenchavis3105 Don't take my words for facts but I think why the Vikings/Norsemen/Scandinavians and the Spanish were a bit similar is because they were both descendants of Germanic tribe.

24:32 "If you really cared about black people, talk about black civilizations." Exactly, thank you for spelling out so succinctly and so perfectly.

@RenegadeVile

Жыл бұрын

Yup, but that takes effort. You have to do this thing called 'research' and might actually have to go to Africa to learn about the culture and history in person from local experts. Why on Earth would you do that when you can instead act like you know everything and pull shit out of your ass?

@OslaTheWalrus

Жыл бұрын

“Black” and “white” civilization is literally presupposing racism as fact. There is no “black” and “white” civilization, they’re only abstractions invented to justify enslavement and injustice.

@RenegadeVile

Жыл бұрын

​@@OslaTheWalrus I think you're intentionally taking what OP said too literally. While technically he should have said 'African civilizations', for example, you know what he meant. There ARE pre-dominantly black civilizations, even though the nature of those civilizations have nothing to do with the color of their skin and instead with a geographical location. And so it's fine to say 'black civilizations' on a KZread comment. Not everything has to be as precise as a master thesis. However, if you do mean to say there is no such thing as even African civilizations. then what do you call civilizations that existed, or still exist, on the African continent? But that's a weird angle to take.

@UnfilteredContent

Жыл бұрын

@@RenegadeVile seems the comment was deleted 😆

@ebatadesse9703

Жыл бұрын

they did but then they tell us egyptians were not brown and Ethiopians are Jewish. hey maybe africans and europeans should swap places😂

My good Metraton sir, you took a bitter, ungrateful battle to fight, but also a righteous one. This is the Dark Age of Wokeness.

@ulrikjensen6841

11 ай бұрын

Mr.Metatron, you are nothing but admirable and should be supported with every word you say. How easy it is to fool people is the otherwise wonderful singer Henderson a living proof of. I wish you would pronunce: "VEE-kings" instead of: "Y-kings"

Its wild to me that, despite us living in an age where information is more readily available and able to be shared than ever before, we have so many people who just want to re-write history with their own fan-fiction.

@Mosern1977

Жыл бұрын

Remember, it is the winners that write the history.

Finally, someone who has the guts to point out that the Norse were white and Cleopatra was Greek. During times of insanity, the simple act of speaking the truth becomes a revolutionary act. Much respect, my friend!

@ravenousmask4159

2 жыл бұрын

Well she's slightly tanned. Same with other romans, greek, and modern italians. It's hot out there. Trust me, I went on a trip before and got sunburned.

@lukaslambs5780

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for actually being historically accurate! Black Romans? Yes. The Roman Empire was very very diverse and had people (in different time periods it varied of course) from Africa, Asia Minor, Northern Europe, Southern Europe etc. If you want diversity, find real examples of it, don’t make up examples of it.

@fattiger6957

2 жыл бұрын

@@ravenousmask4159 But she, as with most nobility, probably didn't spend much time in direct sunlight. In east asian cultures, pale skin is considered beautiful because it is associated with wealth. Poor peasants worked in the fields and got tanned while the rich could stay inside all day or had people carry parasols for them. I wouldn't be surprised if the same happened in Egypt since the rich and powerful always want to separate themselves from the poor.

@MsFunnyfeet

2 жыл бұрын

@@jirga_jirga yep. There are. And, there are people who think the Berbers looked like sub Saharan Africans. Take a look at the ‘ Moors’ in the US. They actually claim slavery never happened. That they’re aboriginal indigenous ‘Moors’ and the original inhabitants of the US. That the Native American tribes are fake and invented by the government. I could go on and on. They claim to be direct descendants from the Egyptians. And, they claim the Moroccan flag as their own! They even claim it’s the ‘true’ flag of the US! 🤦🏻‍♀️

@ravenousmask4159

2 жыл бұрын

@@fattiger6957 I am...chinese, bro. Of course I'd know that image. Maybe I shouldn't have said light brown, but not too pale like vampire or too brown like fishermen. Sorry.

I want to see a "Straight Outta Compton" remake Starring Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Alexander Skarsgård, Mads Mikkelsen, and Viggo Mortensen, as Dr. Dre, Easy-E, Ice Cube, and DJ Yella. LA was a very diverse land, and NWA did travel extensively straight outta compton, and atleast 100 miles and running, so it is realistic that 3 vikings could have started NWA, later adding Viggo Mortensen as a 4th.

@TOAOM123

2 жыл бұрын

Wigga, please

@josefsylvesterarcilla8077

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@redacted4033

2 жыл бұрын

Diverse means not white

@datsunmadman

2 жыл бұрын

Black metal version

@theophrastusbombastus1359

2 жыл бұрын

@@redacted4033 Diverse means simply adding in other minorities (in this case race/colour) to add some variety to an overly predominant one

Just came across your channel and quickly subscribed! Dude, as a black woman, I find it EMBARRASSING that people feel the need to insert themselves where they never were. It gives insecurity 😅

@juansebastianpuertosalazar9301

3 ай бұрын

Thanks, yeah there are a lot of black people with amazing stories but they never do a movie or a tv show about it, there are a lot of amazing stories in the caribean sea and people that was fluent in a lot of languages and fought against pirates and things like that but no nothing yet, or maybe because those stories are in spanish, I don't know

Preach my brother! I am so glad I found your channel. I am so sick of the race-swapping currently going on. As a woman of African heritage, we have an enormous catalogue of stories, histories, heroes and villains. We do not need blackwash-casting. I find it insulting, because it implies that we have nothing to offer in the storytelling sphere. Let's stop re-writing history (badly), we have histories that are yet to be told. If these huge film companies and ignorant black people really cared about black characters and stories, they would focus on telling the real and original narratives, instead of rehashing and overriding existing ones.

Let's keep it simple: If Netflix would make a fictional series about an african tribe, the Zulus for example, and would swap the main character with a white person, the outcry would be so tremendous that the show would probably get cancelled. The arguments that would be put against it would be something like following: - No respect for the culture of the Zulus - No respect for the history of the Zulus - No respect for the ethnicity of the Zulus - Whitewashing And oh boi, I would be one of them who would rages the most because the Zulu people are freakin amazing! But if I want to defend my own culture and history, I'm a racist......................

@kayinsho2558

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! This woke black female viking shit is so fkn retarded. Why don't they go back and make Kunta Kinte white or chinese? They ruined the Ragnar show, and I refuse to watch this fantasy garbage. I can't stand the woke agenda diversity for the sake of diversity doesn't make any sense, and they're shoving this crap down out throats.

@jeffGordon852

Жыл бұрын

karate kid, american ninja

@Abstract.Noir414

Жыл бұрын

Whats with you folks and zulus? you all seem to have one thing in common that thats all you know or your go to battle cry Even among the spanish there is a person im guess was a slave who sailed with the spanish into the new world Estanivico was his name

@wolffromrome9284

Жыл бұрын

@@jeffGordon852 yeah karate kid who was followed up by part 2 with a black student. I don't know about American Ninja though but at least it wasn't from a male to female, Germanic to African, bald to curcly long hair, penis to vagina.as if the things you mentioned are historical and those movies you mentioned are made and about 1980's and 2010's. Which is there are a lot of black people, whites and other Asians that doesn't have karate historically. Do those thing So they shouldn't learn? I shouldn't learn them? I am Asian but that karate Is Chinese. I mean, you can't do Viking now, because it's dead, and if it's revived and blacks are allowed then sure, you can start making modern Viking movies in the future but we are are talking about history.

@ivanmolero7829

Жыл бұрын

@@Abstract.Noir414 Estebanico. He was an arab-speaking black moor and slave. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the historical fact that there were no female jarls nor warriors, nor black vikings and also no female black jarls. Nor is it remotely plausible that there might have been a female black jarl. Or if you wish it is as plausible as the possible existence of a Klan leader that was black and openly gay.

Every European culture appears to have been "ethnically diverse" apart from sub Saharan Africa, native Americans etc..... lol

@thesecondsilvereich7828

Жыл бұрын

Even tho in 1970 Europe was a 100% white

TV companies think that if they inaccurately shoe-horn black characters into historical dramas, they won't have to invest money in telling black stories. I'm sure there are great dramas waiting to be told about the Zulu Kingdom, Mali Empire etc, or African mythology, but they can't be bothered to take the financial risk.

If the norse were so diverse back then, why not choose one of the many historical examples there should be? If what they are saying is true, they shouldnt have to make up a character or replace an actual historical figure with a diversity hire.

Black man here and huge fan of your channel. THANK YOU! This needed to be said. It's more offensive to try and insert black people into other cultures while also not showing black/African peoples culture. Keep up the good work.

@wisedragon173

2 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of African Kings, Queens, and mythological heroes Netflix could make movies about but they don't. They make movies about Europeans only and give them a black face. No appreciation for African history and cultures.

@Reactionary_Harkonnen

2 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair there were a few black people in medieval Europe but most were merchants that came and left or a few that joined a mediveal European army.

@Bi0m3ga

2 жыл бұрын

Fair point. However, it doesn't apply here. The actress is of mixed ancestry and is half Scandinavian. She has legitimate claims to the ethnicity, culture and ancestry. The problem here is that she doesn't look how people expect her to look.

@russmayos3694

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bi0m3ga blame it to mixed ancestry

@russmayos3694

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bi0m3ga oh yeah, blame genetics as well lol

It’s insane to think racism didn’t exist in the past when historicals events, like Nero being denied his lover by his court/mother because she was a Greek, factually happened.

@dekev7503

2 жыл бұрын

That was not racism, that was ethnic bias and classism. Racism as you know it today came about in the 17th century.

@donniedewitt9878

2 жыл бұрын

@@dekev7503 a roman emperor literally thought seeing a black person was a bad omen

@wumpusrat

2 жыл бұрын

@@dekev7503 That's not really true at all. Racism, as in looking down on a group of people because of their race, has been around for thousands of years. Pretty much every time one group bumped into another who looked different and had different customs and beliefs, they would look down on them as being "backwards savages". Every race and culture has done it. The only way it gets solved is if you treat everyone as equals. But there are far too many people who profit from racism or "fighting" racism to let it die.

@dekev7503

2 жыл бұрын

@@wumpusrat like I said, there had always been classism, xenophobia and caste system as long as humans have lived in communities. There might've also been featurism from time to time but the idea of race alone being the dividing factor did not really come about until the 17th century's pseudo scientific doctrines that were also merged with religion.

@asaenvolk

2 жыл бұрын

@@dekev7503 No, it was racism, not just class, the ideas of what "Race" was, was already established in well, likely prehistory, though different groups had different mindsets on the mater. We have examples of "race" being discussed by Greeks, Egyptians, chinese, and even Ancient Mesopotamians, and their thoughts on others who were of different "races" than theirs based on physical characteristics were not kind. The canard that racism could not exist before the 17th or 16th century is a canard, linguistical trick to place the "original sin" of racism on a particular group of people starting at a particular time. The truth is, its a problem that has plagued humanity for likely as long as we have existed as just an outgrowth of tribalism.

That last part of your video was so spot on and perfectly said! Besides that, in general, I love watching your videos, very interesting content! I appreciate that you try to be as unbiased and historically accurate as possible.

I have a coworker (who is black) who's grandmother did an ancestry DNA test, he showed me the results and he was largely from Ghana and Scandinavia. He asked the "Viking" question. I said the more likely story was a fur trapper married an ancestor and had children. But I left it open, I said there is no evidence to the contrary.

@Beggar42

11 ай бұрын

There is some evidence that the Vikings travelled as far south as West Africa ... What if one of them got a bit lonely while there and had a night of passion with a local lady. It really doesn't have to be any more complicated than that.

@ComicGladiator

9 ай бұрын

@@Beggar42 If the ancestry is largely Ghana and Scandinavia, the Scandinavian injection must have been quite recent, otherwise it would be almost all Ghana, with a drop of Scandinavian.

@quinnroberts3158

4 ай бұрын

Sweden had a coastal colony in Ghana from 1650 to 1663. That's probably where it came from.

@jasony720

4 ай бұрын

If I remember correctly the Scandanavian influence was around 20%, still rather significant. His results definately peeked my curiosity of my own ancestory.

The chance that there was a Native American jarl is 0% yes Vikings have met Native Americans but they met basically both agreed to just stay away from each other.

Not only a Black Woman Jarl would be extreme unlikely, the fact that there isn't any records of any women ever serving as a Jarl also shows how dumb this whole thing is, people forget that the Vikings didn't just inherited the titles of their parents, you had to prove yourself in the battle field and gain a reputation so that people would choose you in the Althing.

@unknow11712

Жыл бұрын

well, there were female warriors , but that realy has nothing to do with it, they had a culture, it was based on the fact that man can make more childrens , and risk less while making them. women had less chance to produce offsprings ( that age child mortality was scary ) . they create all the culture and excuses to have man, but the core concept is that they had a very logical reason to want man in a position of ereditary power.

@ruthlessgaming3869

Жыл бұрын

@@unknow11712 No the Norse did not have Woman Vikings invading other country's well maybe one in 10,000 but it is so ridiculous that they have like a third of there entire army as woman in these shows if that was the case these Vikings would be losing there battles a lot more and the term shield maiden is exactly what it sounds like a maid that works in the camps as squire the only times in Norse history were there are woman acting as warriors is during desperate times like when most men were off raiding and there camp or village were attacked woman would help defend if needed but they weren't off fighting as raiders or on the front lines in battles and sieges in England and other countries all the woman in sagas such as lagatha and freydis weren't full time warriors off invading country lagatha helped fight in one battle with Ragnar when he was fighting to free her from slavery and they were losing so off course in that desperate time she went in and helped as much as she could and Freydis didn't even fight she convinced her clan to slaughter the men off a tribe and then she killed helpless female captive which men weren't willing to kill that's not a warrior and when natives attacked there camp she scared the natives by holding a sword to her breast which the natives thought she was cursing them so they ran off. and the reason for this is simple woman are weaker, slower and less resistant to the elements and they give birth so it is more practical for them to stay at home and breast feed and raise children while the men go of and bring back wealth an food just like any other culture plus one man can repopulate the whole village but but if you lost all your woman or most your done its as simple as that.

@unknow11712

Жыл бұрын

@@ruthlessgaming3869 you need to see some realism.... not all man are strong and fast, if your fantasy was even remotely truth, africa would have conquered the entire world as black man are usualy stronger and faster than anyone else. you have to realize that in a army , your personal strenght is nothing in comparison to your skills and cooperation . there are alot of video about that , i'm not telling you all women can kick your ass , i'm telling you that if you are not in the top 10000000 man in strenght , there are women that are actualy stronger than you . that with a weapon , your phisical strenght is even less relevant , with a company , is even less relevant , in an army is secondary at best. there were women in the army , they were not kicked out because they were weaker , but because they could cause some problems ( ppl killing each other for sleeping with whoever , pregnancy during campaigns etc etc) and because they were the best option to remain home and keep the economy running whit farming and reproducing , because a woman need a year to produce a offspring , and risk of death was high ; while 1 man could produce hundred ( in best case) in one year . china had to put rules to keep women out the army , and keep them farming and be prostitute , japan had female samurai used mainly in defensive wars ( there were alot of female body remains in japan battles) women were in the army and were trained even in greece , but evryone in the world realized that they were more suited for defensive wars . the show is obliviusly FANTASY , but if you think that any show that is not a documentary follow "realistic history" you are deluded.

@ruthlessgaming3869

Жыл бұрын

@@unknow11712 the reason they didn’t is that the European, Asian and middle eastern society’s army’s were more technologically advanced and more disciplined armies and I’m not saying all Africans society didn’t get there but it was not enough to dominate

@unknow11712

Жыл бұрын

@@ruthlessgaming3869 Its fun, now is coming out a film about the amazon , african amazon , and between the absolute historical bullshit of the film , and the ppl around thinking only about the fact that the actual battle was a patetic effort i can see alot more bullshit that will be talked about again... they were all women , but the main factor is that they had african level of knowledge and strategy , and most battle in africa ended up in the same way , but they were man ... but no-one will look at it realisticaly or logicaly. .. SIGH...

I would have loved it if he just said "no" and then went on to thank VKNG Jewelry for sponsoring the video

@____________838

2 жыл бұрын

This.

@tiredman99

2 жыл бұрын

The short answer "No" The long answer still "No"

@ngVAT579

2 жыл бұрын

Lol would have loved that! It would be the Metatron equivalent of Indiana Jones just shooting the guy in Lost Ark. 🤣

@pemithmithsara7632

2 жыл бұрын

Did vikings have black women jarls or or was vikings some bkack women? No

this is so different to the character gull in Juliette Marillier's historical fantasy son of the shadows, set in 10th century Ireland. gull is a black man who serves as a warrior with a group of mercenaries' , however he's the only one we see in the entire series. Gull himself explains his backstory, that he was a slave of the Norse captured in a southern raid after being exiled from his home (he was captured somewhere near morocco, though that wasn't where he originally came from just where the norse captured him)), freed by the mercs, who he then stayed with, taking an animal tattoo as the other mercs did and a new name based on that animal. Later in the series, he becomes a medic, marries an Irish woman, and we see his children, who are less dark skinned than he is. Many native Irish do not like Gull, he's described as "A black devil", by one lord, indeed he tries to stay within the mercinary band where people accept him, and does not interact with people outside that group, indeed by the time Gull has children, the mercs have their own island and have established a fighting school, and Gull's kids will stay there, since again they know life will be difficult outside it. Marillier makes no attempt to say Ireland was "diverse", most characters are either Irish, or English. The merccs include a few people from other countries, EG Armoricans (from what is now France), Picts, and Norsemen, but most of the mercenaries are also mostly Irish, or English as well, the mercs are unusually accepting, but that's because of the attitude of their leader, and their general ethos of being a brotherhood where men leave their pasts behind, an attitude which obviously isn't carried outside the band. I don't know whether Marillier included Gull for reasons of "diversity", or just to emphasise the fact that this band of mercs take anyone from anywhere, and give them a chance at a new life, but either way, she gives a great example of how, if you're going to include someone from a distant country in your pre-industrial historical story, you dam well need a good explanation for how they got there, you can't just say "well these people were really diverse", and leve it at that.

@nodruj8681

8 ай бұрын

That's just cultural erasure of white folk in their own histories and stories, and a dog shit story for her own fantasy.

Wow, discovered your channel spent last two days drawing and listening to your podcasts. Amazing! Keep up and best of luck!

As a black african I agree with metatron. I'm getting sick and tired of shows pretending to care about what we went through and the world needs people like you metatron people who speaks about the truth and the fact and nothing more and nothing less.

@admirekashiri6651

2 жыл бұрын

We all are bro

@rollothewalker5535

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Your people have such an interesting history, and it's barely represented. They push on the narrative of diversity by errasing your actual history and replacing it with modern bullshit. It's ridiculous, and it does way more harm than good. If they wanted actual diversity and black representation, they would make shows or movies based on actual black african figures, such as Shaka Zulu, or Mansa Musa, and so on. But the truth is they're just too lazy for that, so they throw black people where they wouldn't have been historically and call it done. I really hope more people speak out against it.

@wankawanka3053

2 жыл бұрын

I am not black but an show about african history would be amazing ✌️

@kimsy1384

2 жыл бұрын

Africans have a proud history themselves, like the empire of Mansa Musa, they dont need to be in viking history like a pity case.

@admirekashiri6651

2 жыл бұрын

@@kimsy1384 It's definitely not us asking for this BS we want to see our own stories shown.

The real crime in all of this is how there are so many wonderful stories, both historical as well as myths/legends, from all over the African Continent that people would love to hear yet it all gets pushed to the wayside in favor of awkward attempts to change stories that have been around for centuries because they're more well known. If some studio out there would just take the chance to perhaps make a fantasy/adventure movie based off of a tribal legend for instance, I have no doubt it would get the world's attention if for no other reason than people are tired of the same old stories year after year.

@kamilknyba244

2 жыл бұрын

It is easier to spoil the things that already exist than to invent something new. J.R.R. Tolkien once said: "Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." And I think that he was absolutely right.

@acephas3

2 жыл бұрын

People DONT want to see them.

@Drahko12

2 жыл бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly

@Unethical.Dodgson

2 жыл бұрын

@@acephas3 Given that people want to see new and original stories (i'll use that term loosely) over rehashes of the same tales that they've already seen a million times. I'm pretty sure a lot of them DO.

@kamilknyba244

2 жыл бұрын

@@acephas3 How do you know that? Is there any movie like that? Even if that is true, is that the reason we should spoil all other movies with inclusivity brainwashing?

It's almost funny that I watched this after your recent Cleopatra video - amazing foresight and I hadn't realized they (netflix and others) were doing this for so long...

To me, it feels a bit weird, because it's kind of like calling a woman "John" and being confused why people find that a bit confusing... Håkon is a pretty well known male name, lots of our kings have had it too.

I'm really sick with this inclusivity at all costs. You pointed out clearly. They stuck on the money, and as far an African historical civilization will not be considered economically worthy they will persist on the actual trend. There are amazing historical and legendary events in Africa like the raise to power of Sun Djata (the first Emperor of Mali), the one of Osei Tutu (the founder of the Ashanti Confederation), or the battles of Dongola when Nubians stopped the Islamic advance up the Nile Valley... There are so many others even more fascinating than Shaka Zulu....but all they accomplished to do is Wakanda of Black Panther.... We Africans and afro-descentant deserve far more and are far more worthy than that.

@admirekashiri6651

2 жыл бұрын

We have to do this ourselves brother, waiting for Hollywood is a waste of time and faith.

@ladybug591

2 жыл бұрын

​@@admirekashiri6651 and Jerry Kofi Adonu....... I would like to see some well made films about ANYTHING now-a-days! Black people can definitely make their own films about their own history, good or bad, you don't "deserve" anything you just need to go and do it. By the same token white people can enjoy THEIR history - please accept that we are diverse races or groups or cultures and enjoy knowing about our OWN history, that is natural and NOT racist, we are sick and tired of manufactured "racism" - each to their own. If a film is well made and honestly presented then it will be a success.

@caniblmolstr4503

2 жыл бұрын

The civiization franchise does good service to African civilizations. Mansa Musa is a fan favourite along with Ethiopia and Shaka Zulu

@luedch8460

2 жыл бұрын

I am Afro Brazilian living in London and I can not stand to see this kind of manipulation of facts anymore and refuse to watch anything where they want to treat us as stupid I love history and the African civilisation is rich of stories and characters that could be used as a way to educate and inspire Afro descendants everywhere but instead they come up with those implausible stories that just distort history.

@justinbarnes8834

2 жыл бұрын

@@luedch8460 It could inspire people of ALL colours, inc Light skined. I would love to learn more about African etc culture and history but sadly there is little to none available. Although the BBC did an excellent documentary on a few African cultures. I would appreciate more of that quality of programme.

Just remember how much care they put into making sure Wakanda consisted of only black actors

@FalkZad

2 жыл бұрын

I would love to see Robert De Niro play a retired Black Panther

@FalkZad

2 жыл бұрын

@The Philosoraptor 🇺🇦 What about the Asgardians? :P

@Medvelelet

2 жыл бұрын

@@FalkZad They are Norse

@khenmozhione4473

2 жыл бұрын

In the comics T’Challa has an adopted White Brother! FACTSFACTSFACTS FACTSFACTSFACTS

@FalkZad

2 жыл бұрын

@@Medvelelet But the movies made them DIVERSE af

I absolutely LOVE your videos. Thanks for this great work. The modern world seems to despise real history. I was always taught that history was there to enrich us and to give us more wisdom.. seems like when you ignore history things always go badly. Thanks again for your work

The point you get to around the 13 minute mark is especially good. There’s this weird push to make Viking Age society seem somehow progressive and to be an actual Viking as aspirational, but they bloody weren’t. Not by our standards. “Anyone could be a Viking” they argue-and while that’s probably not even true, the more pressing point for me would be, “Why would you WANT to be implicated as a Viking?”

Little-known fact, the Norsemen visited Mars via the Rainbow Bridge and therefore have some gray skin and black eyes within their DNA. That's also where Celtic Design came from, crop circles.

@johnree6106

2 жыл бұрын

And why their shields look like flying saucers. 😳

@nyetzdyec3391

2 жыл бұрын

They also wear furs because it was cold on Mars.

@georgsiefkes593

2 жыл бұрын

"In fact it's cold as hell." according to Elton John 😉😁

@otalek9250

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I thought the Mayans did it first, since their carvings depict lots of space ships. (Sigh) yet another example of white appropriation.

@robertkeaney9905

2 жыл бұрын

You just gave me bad History channel flash backs. How dare you. I had almost erased "ancient aliens" from my consciousness.

I also heard the Vikings had the first Chinese takeaway, and people in wheelchairs had the right to go with them pillaging. It was mandatory to have at least one wheelchair user on board of every longship.

@xScooterAZx

Жыл бұрын

XD

@veen9667

Жыл бұрын

Haha! 😂 thanks for the laugh!

@_________404

Жыл бұрын

Ok, you made my Day.

@beholddaempathyangel

Жыл бұрын

And they said these people were barbaric....

@bundyfay6447

Жыл бұрын

The person in the wheelchair was the anchor.

11:35 The odds of a native American Jarl would be so close to zero, that it is negligible. Leif Erikson discovered Canada and its inhabitants. We called them Sveklinger (weaklings), because Vikings were thicker, not thin. But after all, this friendly banter led to some trade. The problem was that the distance between Greenland and Vinland was too large to support a permanent colony, so we stopped travelling to America after a short while

I know it's not history, but considering the gravity of the situation, you might want to do a video on the new "Little Mermaid". It's historical from the sense that they are misrepresenting a Danish tale.

@mikaelwolgast2705

11 ай бұрын

I cant personaly see any issue with that one. Its a fictional story and the skin coulor of Ariel is never an important factor as far as i remember. i doubt it is even mentiond in the original story. and if its not then who cares?

I'm glad all us history buffs are sticking together about this issue I'm tired of ppl labeling us as racist since we don't support black people in historical films I'm tired of diversity for inclusivity at all costs. It doesn't make sense that like 100 years from now they make the president of North Korea a black chick you know for diversity.

@iamthe80s49

2 жыл бұрын

In 100 years it will be historically plausible. So we might as well go around saying the president of North Korea is a black chick.

@cbrreezzyy69

2 жыл бұрын

You mean to tell me Anne Boleyn wasn’t black?

@calypsohandjack9278

2 жыл бұрын

Objecting to white genocide is normal if you’re sane.

@Zhengrui0

2 жыл бұрын

But they wouldn't make the villain a black chick, better to make the president of North Korea a white male and the president of South Korea a black transgender muslim

@jus_sanguinis

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds plausible today. )) P.S. As I know, the majority of scholars think Bjarmaland was in the North-East Europe. So Ljufvina was probably of Uralic origin. Uralic language family consists of Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic languages. The most Asian looking among Finnic tribes were Saamis (back then they were more Asiatic) and the most Western (West Urals region) tribe among Samoyedic people (they all are Asians by race) were Nenets. So most likely she was Saami or Nenets.

Haakon Jarl was not only real, he is a legend amongst the Norwegian rulers. And he was norse, and he was male.

@yokofuvkingono156

Жыл бұрын

who cares

@ladyofnoxus6733

Жыл бұрын

@@yokofuvkingono156 So we can have a white man or a Chinese or Japanese man play Martin Luther King Jr in a historical fiction series set in the 50s and 60s since its historically plausible and a fictional story? No, there would be so much outrage!

@stealthkillz3114

Жыл бұрын

@@ladyofnoxus6733 let me have a Asian Malcolm X please. Vietnamese and Chinese so that I can champion them racially only because they are my race and not for what they stand for.

@Michael-fw6vk

Жыл бұрын

@@yokofuvkingono156 If a white man was cast to portray Nelson Mandela there would be riots and death all over the world, especially in south Africa. Thank god white people are more civilized and restrained.

@kezzler9556

Жыл бұрын

@@yokofuvkingono156 Norwegians care. It is part of our legacy.

Thank you for doing this video, I love the way you go into your subjects and express yourself well done blessings Halsa Valang

Buon pomeriggio, e grazie per un bene video. Mi dispiace, il mio italiano é molto buono. (I am trying to learn). I have been binging your videos all day while sick in bed. As a swedish history nerd and formerly historic tour guide and active in the viking reenactment community I really appreciate your very informative video.

It's crazy to think that these show runners can tell us to "Do our research" while giving us the wrong information but they do it all the time.

@TheBelrick

Жыл бұрын

They are just whte hating racists. They are trying to cover up genocide by first replacing whtes in film.

@am9359

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but it's all part of globalist social engineering, which involves disinformation & genocide of culture (especially white Europeans before everyone else).

@am9359

Жыл бұрын

it's all part of oligarchical globalist social engineering, which involves disinformation & the genocide of culture (especially white European culture and descendants first ).

@petboy5839

Жыл бұрын

Did you do your research?

@AmstradExin

Жыл бұрын

@@petboy5839 Did you? (:

"we have no idea what the Vikings looked like" What about... the native inhabitants of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and especially Iceland ?

@Onnarashi

2 жыл бұрын

You're telling me...people tend to look like the people who lived there for thousands of years??? Sounds racist to me! /s

@adambielen8996

2 жыл бұрын

Well they don't let things such as facts get in the way of their money grubbing.

@1Kapuchu100

2 жыл бұрын

We popped out of the aether come the 1500's, just in time to start enslaving Africans, and native black Scandinavians, and such. I thought this was basic history? (obvious sarcasm, plase don't take this seriously)

@willfakaroni5808

2 жыл бұрын

You should have in included Ireland, Vikings brought gingers to Ireland

@RandelOland901-ATT

2 жыл бұрын

@@willfakaroni5808 Yea, according to mythology Thor was a ginger.

@metatron a note on the possibility of a Viking leader have Native American heritage... Sigtuna 84001 a body recovered from the Swedish city of Sigtuna has some trace DNA indicating some Native American genetics. The body is also related to a couple of bodies in Greenland and many in Iceland, given recent articles about some Icelanders carrying Native American MtDNA that may be the source.. Interestingly this body in particular shares genetics with some of the bodies recovered from the St. Brices day massacre in Oxford that are touched on in this series of Vikings.

your voice is 30% of the reason i am subscribed

I'm glad we have a movie like the Northman, something made by people who actually respect the time period more than modern ideology.

@rbu2136

2 жыл бұрын

I heard the gender swapped the goats to be more inclusive.

@paulieprinceton4550

2 жыл бұрын

And of course the woke cultists are reeeing at the Northman as expected.

@pczYT

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately it's too white to be streamed in diverse Canada

@pczYT

2 жыл бұрын

@Daniel Linley kinda... Canada has a law which demands that 65% of broadcasted / streamed media to be produced in Canada. From this 65%, half should be in French. So you can imagine how many foreign productions we have here. And what's the probability of an allegedly "huwhite supremacist" film to be chosen

@Nidhoggrr

2 жыл бұрын

@@pczYT And that's where a VNP comes into play, my man/woman/goat?

Honestly though, just for a moment try to imagine a Netflix series in 2022 set in the Viking age that DIDN’T have a black woman ruler in it! Impossible!

@ozramblue117

2 жыл бұрын

She should also be trans and same sex interested. Clearly that would be more inclusive.

@neillindgren8992

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, trying to imagine that makes my head hurt.

@mgntstr

2 жыл бұрын

@@ozramblue117 and amputee or deaf or blind and on the spectrum like Sheldon. a Sheldon Viking.

@ozramblue117

2 жыл бұрын

@@mgntstr indeed. Just so long as she can still fight with the strength of ten men and the speed of a cheetah. It’s more realistic that way.

@davidweikle9921

2 жыл бұрын

We wuz vi-kangs

I just want to thank you for the extremely important service you are providing education the population of the truth. I’m sure it’s a thankless job a lot of the time, can’t imagine some of the comments you get from the false-info spreaders; but to 80% of people still grounded in reality, we thank you.

I learned from a man many years ago, before this insanity had left the universities, that there were a few Africans who sailed with Vikings, but that in Norse culture they were known as 'blue' rather than 'black'.

The British, for example, had one of the largest Empires in history, covering one third of the world, including Africa & the Caribbean. I wonder how many Earls or Dukes (equivalent to Jarls) of Britain were black, or even non-white. Just because a country was expansive or diverse doesn't automatically mean that minorities were in positions of power. God knows, the world isn't very accepting of different races nowadays, so I'm doubtful it was much better 1000 years ago.

@TriggeredJelly

2 жыл бұрын

Anne Boleyn entered the chat.

@brucetucker4847

2 жыл бұрын

@@TriggeredJelly You mean this Anne Boleyn? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn#/media/File:AnneBoleynHever.jpg

@mediamenace1879

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucetucker4847 white washing another strong black woman....disgusting

@MrBirdboy1126

2 жыл бұрын

@@TriggeredJelly yeah she wasn't black...

@admirekashiri6651

2 жыл бұрын

In some cases somewhere in positions of power but, ofcourse the evidence should be presented.

I was in Tromso (Norway) in the 1970's with a USMC unit training with the Norwegians. I spoke some German, and since Norwegian is similar I was able to more-or-less talk to people. I'm light green (white) and was walking down the street with a dark green (black) Marine and an elderly Norwegian lady came up and insisted he come to her home for lunch. Seems my friend was the very first "real live" black person she'd ever seen. I was included since obviously a translator (as lousy as I was) was needed. My point is. In the 1970's, in a Norwegian port small city this lady had never seen a black person in person in her life.

@hsmd4533

Жыл бұрын

I grew up in Wisconsin and brought a high school friend with me on a trip to Chicago, and that was the first time she saw black people in person. This was in the late 80s.

@annahgibbus8

Жыл бұрын

​@@hsmd4533 I just moved from north of Chicago to a little Wisconsin town with less than 2% blacks. I believe you.

@fakeidlastnameless7613

Жыл бұрын

In Canada .. the only black person i see are cashier at Tim Hortons (coffee shops)

@AK-dd9od

Жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as a European race. Genetically, Europeans are a mixture of West Asian ( Caucasian), sub-Saharan (African), and Far-Eastern (Mongoloid) DNA. There is also research indicating that there is some Neanderthal DNA in European populations. These mixtures are reflected in the hybrid facial structures of the Europeans.

@schaetzcken01

Жыл бұрын

@@AK-dd9od If you go after DNA then there are no races at all. The genetic code does not determine 'race,'. That is a purely social construct. In the history of modern humanity, everything converges somewhere in Africa 300,000 years ago. Not in a single couple: a network connects all humans who have ever lived on earth - and that network is encoded in genes. Deciphering these genes has shown that any two people on earth each differ in one thousandth of their genome. So the differences are very small. As far as the Neanderthals are concerned, we now know that all people outside Africa have a little bit of Neanderthal in them. In Europe a little less, in Asia a little more. The largest amount of this Neanderthal or prehistoric DNA is found in Oceania, New Guinea and Australia. Within Africa, we find almost no mixing with Neanderthals. So Genetically there is only one race. No european, no asian, no african, no far eastern. Just one human race.

My distant relative, Chief Jarl Flys With Ravens from the Ojibwa nation was the 3rd Chief Jarl Dane warrior to rule the tiny north colony.

13:44 What a beautiful and insightful remark! Well done!

As someone who is a history buf on vikings and studies old norse: 1) Jarls were elected. So "passing down" rulership as Jarl didnt happen. 2) In THEORY females could be elected as Jarl, in practise it never happened once 3) Black people amongst vikings did exist but were super rare. We know of one guy in iceland who was bought as slave and served, as slave, 10 years to his master, was then released and got citizenship in iceland so he was a black icelander. Not a viking though cause that happened AFTER the viking age. 4) While norse society was pretty progessive FOR ITS TIME it did have very strict gender roles and while being gay was legal, it was absolutely mocked into oblivion and looked down at. Just like a female could in theory become a Jarl but that would have been mocked and looked down at, not just her but the entire village, which is why it never happened. 5) on a sidenote valkries are mythology. Shieldmaidens too. Yes we have about 3 Sagas of women who took up arms but all of them did so in pure self defense to avoid being raped, and one wanted to protect her kids. They definitely did not join warparties for obvious reasons. 6) Vikings didnt have written....da...hell...what the....the vikings have left us TONS of written texts TONS OF EM, sagas ad nauseam, ballads, songs, texts of law....literacy among the norse was actually pretty good at least any idiot could write his name and a short sentence which they carved in houses, weapons, or just trees. 7) we dont know what they looked like ....ahm...we do. we do a lot. First we have depictions in said texts what certain heroes looked like, we have statues, we have reference of what they looked like from other cultures, and we have norse names like Bjarni which literally just means "blonde guy" 8) minor nitpick valhalla stands in germany. its often forgotten but norse and german(ic) culture was one and the same bar linguistic differences. 9) yes vikings mixed with other peoples but heres the catch - those who did usually stayed n those foreign countries as overpopulation or better said lack of free land in scandinavia was the main drive for young vikings to go elsewhere and explore to begin with... 10) again while true that a rare few scandinavian people of the viking era where not white, scandinavia was (and kinda still is) the whitest area on the planet. Poland, britain and germany in medieval times had more black and asian people than any scandinavian country. and there they were already very rare. say most big german cities had one black family but on the countryside people would never see a black person in their entire life

@Marmocet

2 жыл бұрын

And can we just be honest about something? The reason these woke ideologues are always trying to shoehorn black people into everyone else's history is because they're painfully aware that blacks have very little in the way of civilizational history (for example, there was never anything in black Africa that came remotely close to anything like ancient Rome), and they're consoling themselves by insisting to themselves and everyone else that blacks have always been a part of European (and Asian, Amerindian, Egyptian, etc.) civilization. It's supremely cringey to behold.

@cerdic6305

2 жыл бұрын

I mostly agree with you, but if you'll forgive me for being nitpicky, none of the sagas would have been written by Vikings because they were all written by Christians generally after the end of the Viking Age.

@OrkarIsberEstar

2 жыл бұрын

@@cerdic6305 well not really. ill give you that most sagas, like the islendinga sagas and the eddas were written by christians after the viking age but other sagas and texts were written in the viking age and the others like the eddas, while written after the viking age, quite a bit so, still originate from the viking era or even predate them (like nibelung saga) and were just recorded well. that said we also have poems that survived written in stone. others like the jomsviking saga definitely originates and was apparently written down during the viking era, but the originals degraded and were lost to time so that the oldest written examples we have are barely 400 years old. and since im at it a minor self nitpick. when i say viking i mean the norse people cause thats hown the term is used. viking literally means "living in the bay" and refered to outlaws of the society. actual vikings were criminals. and to shieldmaidens - to make it a bit more clear - not only did the women we know who took up arms do so in self defense all of them did miserably and wrent fought seriously at all and still ost by being KOed. The most successfull managed to kill 3 attackers before she was finally overwhelmed and raped

@cerdic6305

2 жыл бұрын

Oh well if you meant by Viking just Norse generally then obviously there are Norse texts, but as you say Viking doesn’t actually mean that.

@Beardshire

2 жыл бұрын

This show is said to be set. Their words "in 1002, 100 years after the Viking age." We know it ended after the battle of Hastings in 1066. We can already see a problem here.

Living in Sweden I've never even heard of a female Jarl, I'd like to think someone would have brought it up in all the years of fighting for equality.

@Onnarashi

2 жыл бұрын

Not in Norway either, but who cares what we think, right? Only people in the Anglosphere matter, and what they want OUR history to be like is how it'll be!

@deepflake5851

2 жыл бұрын

At this rate, our Emperor, Napoléon Bonaparte, will be depicted by the Anglo-Saxons as a proud black woman around the year 2040. Brace yourselves my fellow Europeans, America is coming for us!

@mgntstr

2 жыл бұрын

Me neither but I do seem to recall an outcry from the Virtuous Ree's about the sins of "apropriating culture" not that long ago...

@clayneid

2 жыл бұрын

@@deepflake5851 Europe is far worse about this than America, what are you even on about...

@bigjen8238

2 жыл бұрын

@@deepflake5851 Napoleon installed a non-Swedish royalty in Sweden, so this isn't really the right place to bring him up

Dude, amazing, and i got the opportunity of do a little research in school and always love the idea of some series of tribes from Africa like the Lion Hunters

This man has become my new hero. An objective, honest and brave man. Never relinquish the Truth. God bless you.

As a Dane, I am glad you decided to deal with this.. As much as I want people to go forward and ensure everyone can be a part of humanity as a whole, this "inclusivity fanaticism" is absolutely disgusting. They really don't give a shit about anyone apart from the paycheck.

@jackobey2815

Жыл бұрын

I for one cannot wait to see mansa musa played by a white trans woman (for inclusivity) its totally plausable that mansa musa may have been a white trans woman and was just recorded as a man because of transphobic ancient historians.

@MartnCFdk

Жыл бұрын

@@jackobey2815 I already said I want Jackie Chan as protagonist of the last days of the Inca Empire.

@Leodachef1

Жыл бұрын

The point is when we mix up every race or ethnicity and make all even none of the things that makes us unique and diverse will survive. We literally kill what makes us humans, humans. We destroy the rich cultures all around the world when we forcefully mix everyone up. If you want all people to be part of humanity as a whole they need to have their own space and country so their genes and culture can survive in the future. What this agenda actually does it destroy exactly that. So if you want to support a united humanity we need to actually stop mass migration and destruction of our countries and cultures.

@UltimatePowa

Жыл бұрын

@@jackobey2815 Do we have any evidence Mansa Musa was black? Or are people just claiming that because anything from the African continent now is considered black, except Elon Musk because he is too rich. So wouldn't that make Mansa Musa white if he was alive in our time?

The thing that I have noticed, when they say they want diversity, 90% of the actors that get the race swapped roles are of Sub-Saharan African origin, it is extremely rare that you see an actor of native South American, native North American, Aborigine, Maori, etc origin. In the case of this fictional character they say that her mother was a princess from Egypt, but by the so called Viking Age, Egypt had been conquered by the Islamic Caliphate (invaded 639-641AD, though the Byzantium Empire tried to re-take Egypt several time), and therefore any Egyptian princess in the Viking Age would have been of Middle Eastern origin, not sub-Saharan African. Unless they are stretching their story to having a sub-Saharan African princess who just happened to be visiting Egypt when the Norsemen also visited, this would be highly unlikely as Islamic Egypt had tried to invade Nubia in 642, resulting in hostile feeling between the nations, so no royal visits. It would be a more realistic story if while visiting the Mediterranean the Norsemen had purchased a sub-Saharan slave, who was brought back to Scandinavia and bore a daughter for a Norseman.

@ultimateshipper8997

2 жыл бұрын

But then she would have chattel ancestry. They could never allow something like this. Also note how her grandma belonged to royalty. Because of course she was a princess.

@mnk9073

2 жыл бұрын

It's made by Americans, to them Africa = Black = Egypt. From Tripoli to the Cape and from Dakar to the Horn, just one shade, one history and one culture.

@Runegrem

2 жыл бұрын

I think they want someone as dark as they can get. More bang for their buck in the diversity column that way since darker = more diversity for a single actor.

@Red_Devil_2011

2 жыл бұрын

It's because they don't give a hot damn about history or accuracy. Their only goal is to bully White people and inject we wuz kangz everywhere to cash in on racial grievance points.

@Red_Devil_2011

2 жыл бұрын

@@mnk9073 It's not just the Americans. The media establishment of every western country uses the woke politics playbook.

Great video and the criticism is more accurately formulated than I probably ever could. It would have been nice if you had linked the video about African weapons.

Love all the Truths you speak God Bless

Not remotely but you know what is historical? Eastern Europeans enslaved by the Muslim Turks for 300 years. I wish they'd do a remake of Roots set in Romania and Hungary around the same time and let their story be told

@Miqzz

2 жыл бұрын

What do you mean, slavery only existed in america and only black people have ever been victims of it are you doubting the twitter activists?

@paradisecityX0

2 жыл бұрын

@@UsernamesHandle Not unless the Daily Wire gets on that project

@kylegrey1071

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't have to be a remake of roots. It could be it's own original story highlighting the separate historical events. It might draw too many concerns of Islamophobia for audiences though

@Seventh7Art

2 жыл бұрын

300? The Turks enslaved South-East Europe for up to 500 years.

@Darksky1001able

2 жыл бұрын

Considering slavery isnt allowed in Islam, the Turks are already breaking a rule. Damn Ottomans.

_"You can't 100% _*_prove_*_ it _*_didn't_*_ happen! That means it totally _*_did_*_ happen! It _*_must_*_ have happened _*_all the time!"_* Because that's how logic works. Yep.

@melvynobrien6193

Жыл бұрын

False logic, in fact.

As a one hundred percent Scandinavian descent person, thank you. I do feel Netflix has murdered my culture here. Thanks for standing up for the truth, even when it is ugly. I do admit it was ugly. Still, they are my ancestors.

Intellectual honesty is so refreshing. Sadly, profit motives and revisionist history insult both cultural entities. Thank you for thinking.

Thank you so very much sir... As a black person, I appreciate truth above inclusiveness. This, sticking us in places where we never were, is increasingly annoying !!!! I will be sharing this video, as I do with many of your other's... Once again, thank you.

@AnotherDuck

2 жыл бұрын

That also hides where you actually were, and where you actually came from. It's like they're saying that black people matters, but not their history and culture.

@clearquartz1677

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnotherDuck My thoughts exactly! This is such a hollow, token-esque gesture that distracts from what we really want which is our own stories.

@zerofactor7871

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. It seems insulting to do this, when black people actually have a very long and rich history of their own from across multiple continents. It's almost as if it implies that the author of these transpositions inherently believes that the true history of the various groups of black people in the world is not worthy of telling, and must be substituted with something more interesting. It's a symptom of the white savior complex. These people subconsciously believe that their own culture and history is inherently more prestigious than that of others, and then project their own idea of what's respectable onto the history of black people in a conceited attempt to improve the social prestige of the black community. Essentially, they believe that the only way to make other white people respect and like black people is to fabricate a history that they see as being more respectable than the reality - which in my opinion, is quite racist indeed.

@Altrantis

2 жыл бұрын

@@AnotherDuck It's more like they're saying black people only matter if they have white culture and live in places where white people live.

@AnotherDuck

2 жыл бұрын

@@Altrantis That feels like some parts of feminism, in that women are only "strong and independent" if they act like men.

If medieval scandinavia had been so diverse, then that would show up in the gene pool of contemporary inhabitants of these countries who descend from these populations. Which it does not.

@Reactionary_Harkonnen

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@georgelindley6752

2 жыл бұрын

Seven percentage of Swedish men carry Y haplogroup N which came from Vietnam-South China area. Probably came from the Sami people.

@sophisticatedbear3374

Жыл бұрын

@@georgelindley6752 Sweden is also the most multi ethnic country out of every nordic nation. Also in iceland it would have been almost exclusively Danes by this point in history.

@NordenTV

Жыл бұрын

​@@georgelindley6752 Haplogroup N came to Sweden through Finland and Baltic region. You might find Asian connection from 15-40 000 years ago. 2-4% of haplogroup Q in Sweden is mysterious though. And in some other European countries too.

@drfate7863

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, Scandinavians are pale in complexion and tend to have more people with light brown hair, blue eyes, etc.

You’re 100% correct. It’s all about pushing sales & coercion. Keep tellin’ it like it is.

Honestly reading the sagas, and just studying history in general, I’d say the bigger problem was not her being accepted as Viking although black (mixed race). It’s her being accepted as a ruler although an unmarried woman. Just not convincing.

@nodruj8681

8 ай бұрын

That isn't the bigger issue

When these studies claim that the vikings were "diverse", they actively mislead and try to evoke east asians, middle-easteners and africans with the use of that word, but when you actually read what is stated in the data it paints a different picture. What the "diverse" actually means in this context is simply "not scandinavian". When they intermixed, which was pretty rare, it was very often with closely related peoples such as finns, other baltic peoples, western and central europeans. Italians were also decently common within this small group, mostly because of the Lombards who were a Scandinavian and north Germanic people who settled in nortern Italy a few centuries before the viking age. These in turn married into local Italian aristocracy to create alliances, but still maintained good relations with scandinavia several generations later.

@michaeljensen5615

2 жыл бұрын

I am no expert on Viking lore but what you said makes sense. However, there were some non-White Vikings but it would be a hard sell to make a historically-accurate series devoted to such a small pop. That is, non-Black Vikings compared to the mostly-White bigger pop. of Vikings.

@ewoudalliet1734

2 жыл бұрын

Well... to be honest. Vikings "intermixing" wasn't that rare in Western Europe; especially the British Isles where the Vikings even had settlements. Just take a look at the % of Scandinavian DNA in northern England (average at 10% and in some places up to 25%). That being said; intermixing was, generally speaking, quite rare during that time period.

@AnotherDuck

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly I think people seriously overestimate how many of the Scandinavians actually went on journeys to Mediterranean and Middle East areas. The vast majority of Scandinavians stayed in Scandinavia. Of the "diversified" Norse, you'd get mostly other Nordic people, the immediate neighbours across the seas surrounding Scandinavia, and after that it got rather sparse. Outside those areas you'd probably be looking at one or two percent at best, probably less than one (my guess based on what I know, anyway), of the total population. The probability of a sub-Saharan Jarl (partial or not) would first have to be based on just how few of them did go north, and on top of that how likely it was for one of them to become the wife of any kind of ruler or person with high standing. That's not all, since you also have to consider that it was never mentioned at any point in history, so therefore you have to think about how likely it would be that it wouldn't be passed down in history even if it happened. All in all, no, there's no practical chance of it having happened.

@your_belief_vs_everything

2 жыл бұрын

It's not just these studios, it is academia and anthropology as well as historians.

@HonorAndWisdom

2 жыл бұрын

@@your_belief_vs_everything Yup. This woke trash is a cultural cancer with tendrils almost everywhere.

I always love historical shows andmovies, but agendas are indeed being pushed to consumers.

@paulk5670

2 жыл бұрын

I can agree with your statement as written so far. I'm curious, though, do you mean to imply agendas being pushed on consumers is a new or modern phenomenon?

@dusk6159

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulk5670 In this scale and systemic method, most definitely yes

@nativeeurope1299

2 жыл бұрын

I grew up loving shows based on European history and myths, but I no longer watch anything these tiny hats make, I cant stand them re-writing our history to fit their racist agenda. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot, it would never be tolerated.

@nativeeurope1299

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulk5670 The agenda has always been there, its just that its reached monumental levels of absurdity now that should not be possible.

@gaiusloricusantoniusdominu7136

2 жыл бұрын

@@nativeeurope1299 The tiny hats want to dismantle societies because 1) that's what they're good at, and 2) they make money out of these disasters and crises. They should be illegal

I really do appreciate this channel (definitely subscribing). I have always been a sponge for knowledge and a bit history buff but in today's political climate it is extremely difficult to get the unadulterated truth. Too many agendas are clouding the waters and tainting the interests. For example, the fact that the LGBT has been allowed to piggie back the blk civil rights movement in the Americas is insulting and tiresome. For decades now, it has been a trope that almost anytime they include a blk/POC woman she MUST be lesbian or bisexual. Anyone viewing MSM from THIS time period would likely think there were no straight blk women...lol. The misrepresentation that can happen is hardly completely avoidable but at least this channel proves their are people willing to fully examine the facts and not get swept up in the nonsense.

Look at The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise. That film actually does historical diversity correctly, because it doesn't simply pretend that white men are a normal and respected part of samurai society. The movie shows that Tom's character, Nathan Algren, is different -- an outsider -- and that the samurai *view* him differently, and, indeed, negatively, until he earns their trust.

@bavariancarenthusiast2722

2 жыл бұрын

Yep - but big difference - as far as I know this movie was historic correct - he really lived and they even had pictures of him right? Was a good movie!

@AS-tr5cg

2 жыл бұрын

@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 The man Algren is based off of two men, one American and one French, but more or less - with some poetic license for making an interesting movie - it isn't too far off the mark. The real men were Fredrick Ward and Jules Burnet respectively, and the part of Katsumoto is an amalgamation of various heroic Japanese leaders and samurai such as Saigo Takamori and the contemporary to Ward and Burnet, Enomoto Takeaki. So its a romanticization of things that happened, but with a lot of poetics to it. Similar to Braveheart. Edit: I would like to point out before being corrected, there was a samurai by the name of Katagiri Katsumoto in the early Edo period, but that is roughly late 1500s, early 1600s, so was far before the happenings in the movie. There was also a Kanrei, a magistrate or deputy to a shogun essentially, but he existed even early by more than 100 years.

@bavariancarenthusiast2722

2 жыл бұрын

@@AS-tr5cg Thankyou for the detailed answer! Appreciated :)

@AS-tr5cg

2 жыл бұрын

@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 Of course! exchanging knowledge makes the world a better, more cohesive place in my opinion. History (particularly 1700AD+) is especially fun. Lots of changes all at once and all over. Live long and prosper, friend. 🖖

@dambigfoot6844

2 жыл бұрын

Think of how all the Scandinavian people treated Athelstan for just being from England "why does his hair look like that? why is he wearing those clothes? he sounds funny. Priest!!!". They are going to treat her like she is Scandinavian? No background actors even looking at her weird? A Black female could be played as an Islamic leaders wife or a leader of a tribe in Africa

As a half black man myself i feel that people who try and rewrite history by changing race and other things to appease social norms is pure b.s. If your trying to make something with somewhat historical accuracy then you need to stick to the time period and make things as they should be.

@Bi0m3ga

2 жыл бұрын

Caroline Henderson is Danish-Swedish and American(black). She's of mixed ancestry. Since half of her ancestry is objectively Scandinavian would you say that logic applies to her as well?

@atypicalaspie7208

2 жыл бұрын

Which side of your ancestry do you feel more connected with, if you don't mind my asking?

@09BiGDylan

2 жыл бұрын

Thats not what is happening here. If you're mad at inaccuracies, there's many more to be frustrated about lol

@Cognaxance

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bi0m3ga The only question you should address was there any sub-Saharans in 10th century northern Europe.

@chriswedemann8599

Жыл бұрын

@@Cognaxance Likely, but unprovable. Slavery was practiced all throughout the Roman Empire, and for most of it’s existence. The Slave routes ran all throughout. So, it’s certainly possible. In some ways expected. But unprovable. Unless, of course, we want to engage in Nazi Science- then we may perhaps find or invent some.

Before the invention of the letter "å", a double "a" was used to represent the "o" sound, so the name of the jarl would be pronounced as "Ho-kon". The letter "o", represents the "u" sound in Scandinavian languages (when not occurring before a bouble consonant).

Metatron spitting facts like a machine gun...as usual 😂😂😂

The history of Africa is fascinating. They could make a historical drama like Vikings but set during the songhai period, for example.

@YandreYak

Жыл бұрын

they did it with Vakanda tho :)

@OmniMale

Жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting for a full fleshed out Yasuke movie. A African slave becomes a samurai, retainer and swordsman of one of the greatest Japanese leaders in history , Oda Nobagunda. What a story and it's a fact! As a kid growing up in NY, I still remeber the African heritage exhibits. The weapons that Africans came up with were brutal and I use to imagine the historical battles they would have which such weapons.

@TheMrPeteChannel

Жыл бұрын

@@OmniMale Well he did fight with Samurai but he was most likely the rank below samurai. Forget what the rank was called. But he was well respected for his fighting abilities none the less.

@OmniMale

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMrPeteChannel Most have him as a retainer or weapons bearer. Some have him as given the title of samurai. That's why I lisited all three. Like you mentioned, regardless. He was honored for his skin tone, his height, his strength and this proweress as a warrior. All that without speaking the language

@DarkPassenger

Жыл бұрын

That would take some talent and apparently all these people who make movies and shows have none now. There's so much cool history, and folklore from all around the world to pluck ideas from. Instead of making something new, they just choose to race, and gender swap and call it a day.

There's a very good short story called "how the leopard got its spots". It's a good read, the story I believe, is based on an Ethiopian folk tale. If people really cared, they would bring up more stuff like this.

@13253415

2 жыл бұрын

They want to use famous stories western people love because it is a free marketing.

@bigjen8238

2 жыл бұрын

there's a cool story called Fable of the Ducks and the Hens, it's more relevant than people may believe

@ZynVad3r1

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that movie kumba

@DuskXIIII

2 жыл бұрын

A guy on youtube called YoungRippa phrased it best, these people only see validation in whiteness. They don't give a shit about the massively untouched mythology, folklore, and history of Africa. Or black people in general for that matter.

@theilluminatedone9214

2 жыл бұрын

@@13253415 They want to use famous Western stories in order to attack and try to erase white culture, white history and white identity. They own most of the money in the world, so making more is irrelevant to them at this point.

Thank you for making a smart and informative video by just stating the facts (that we know of yet). I am a Swedish woman who has a lineage of Swedish, Danish and Norwegian descent dating several hundred’s of years back (1400 is the oldest family I know so far) And of course to the people who care about historical accuracy, I thank you for having a second thought and really looking into history and historical representation. I would personally love to see and know more about people of African descent and other countries/cultures, because I honestly don’t know that much. Like from movies, tv series and or documentaries. And then Instead of putting a person like a woman or a man (of colour) in just to say that they passed the diversity test (and to be honest not really caring about their culture, just how to be woke and get money), they are being used like pawns in a game for people and companies that don’t give a F about them. I do sometimes feel offended that a small caucasian culture in the north is being exploited and used just because we are white and should shut up and take it because of racism, colonialism and “white privilege” That we haven’t suffered as much or as hard as other races. We have suffered but in different ways and yes most of our ancestors did have a lot of power and privilege, but that doesn’t mean that every white person in Scandinavia had it easy. Like everything it has a wider perspective, not everybody had the same experience and equality. A majority of people were poor and struggling to survive and take care of their families. I just don’t understand why we can’t celebrate and acknowledge our differences and be happy that we are so diverse and interesting, because honestly life would be kind of boring without differences, looks and religions. Every country every religion every different kind of culture has done extraordinary things and also horrific crimes against humanity. But can’t we just agree that all countries and cultures have done terrible things in the past (often and sadly for survival and profit) But it’s a part of a very complex and extraordinarily terrifying past that made all of us who we are today. I just want to be able to watch a movie and not think about what or where this person/character comes from. I need to say that in most cases our Scandinavian history or people/characters aren’t represented in mainstream media, like for instance Disney made a story inspired by a Danish author (very famous one) H.C Andersen about a mermaid who came from Denmark (and yes in the original story she had blonde hair) So Disney decided to change a bit of the story and give the Mermaid red hair (because nearly every other Disney princess had blonde hair). Disclaimer, I have nothing but love and respect for Halle Bailey I’m sure that she’s a wonderful actress and I’m sure that I will support her next endeavours. But the disrespect of changing a/ several people just to make headlines and make it about racism and wokeness when in reality Disney was just to lazy to make a new kind of movie about people of colour. That for me means that we are changeable and not relevant enough to have a Danish/Scandinavia person do the character and celebrate our and their culture. Thank you for reading, I’m sure you have your own personal opinions on what I wrote, I’m not here to offend anyone because I honestly don’t really care about race, religion jada jada and other stuff, you do you and why should I care and have a opinion about your life. I’m just trying to live mine, to learn and make mistakes and stating my opinion about a part of my cultural heritage that - to me is mildly annoying. Thanks! Peace and love 💟☮️❤️🤗👍🏻

@urissaresto

Жыл бұрын

Norwegian/Danish here. In the first Little Mermaid, the change to Ariel's hair was evidently due to the fact that she had multiple sisters representing the different oceans and seas. In this case, Ariel is the Red Sea, hence why the hair was red. But also because there are enough blondes at Disney, obviously. It baffles me how people seem to think that race-swapping a very established character after decades of merchandise being sold, is somehow a great idea. I'm also a redhead, and this is the 30th+ established character they've race-swapped from redhead to random black person to pander to a specific crowd idolizing Afrocentrism that doesn't even watch these movies. But I will say this in Halle Bailey's favour. I saw a response video to the teaser trailer of The Little Mermaid. A little white, blond & blue-eyed girl at the age of 4 was watching it and immediately upon seeing Hailey's face shouted out "Whitney Houston!!!" and was in absolute awe. Firstly, THAT is one heck of a compliment. Whitney was both an amazing singer and looked absolutely stunning. Second, if your 4-year-old knows who Whitney Houston is, you're doing something right in your parenting 😂

@emmaalberts5016

Жыл бұрын

@@urissaresto Hi, how interesting! I didn’t know that that’s was the reason why they changed her and her sister’s hair colours. I totally agree with what you’re saying, I have no problem with Halle nor her skin colour/race I’m more annoyed and concerned that they change “existing characters” in the name of wokness instead of doing new and exiting stories about people of all different races culture’s and backgrounds. It’s laziness and stupidity, people deserve to have their own story told not to be replaced or renewed by someone other race/culture ethnicity or person. Give people what they want, new stories, new people and new thoughts. Whitney Houston is always a great compliment and example of something wonderful in our world.🤗 Thanks! 😊👍🏻

I just found your channel and I love it. You've answered questions I've asked for years, one being is African history so boring and lackluster that they have to be written into everyone else's history? I would love to see their own history displayed so that they could be proud of it and not be a token in others.

My viking class teacher always used to say "just cuz we cant prove that lazer sharks wasnt a think in norway during the viking age doesnt mean there where lazer sharks in norway during the viking age"

@DustinDonald-cz9ot

Жыл бұрын

@@AK-dd9od Yeah cause an almost totally white people(99.9%) in the middle ages is gonna put a non white person as their leader. Which would of likely been a slave. Would be like me a white man going over to Africa during the middle ages and them making me the ruler of Africa shit ain't happening they would likely kill me outright or I would be assassinated. Hell the Vikings weren't gonna put a Celt, Frank or Saxon as leader and they are white you don't put a person who is not of your culture in charge of your people would be a massive civil war people aren't having it even nowadays.

@Ganubishorus

Жыл бұрын

@@AK-dd9od yes as slaves 🤷🏻‍♂️ there hasnt been ANY form of evidence that there has been any form of black high ranking people during the viking age! And that goes doeble for jarls 😮‍💨 im sorry but thats just how it is

@cyberedge881

Жыл бұрын

@A K That study they refer to that supposedly proves the Vikings were so diverse actually showed that the overwhelming amount of ancestry of Vikings was local Scandinavian ancestry. And the overwhelming majority of the outsider ancestry came from other parts of Europe. I'll have to read it again, but I don't think they found any ancient Viking individual with even a small amount of sub-Saharan ancestry.

@stephenodubhlaoich

Жыл бұрын

​@@AK-dd9od Sub Saharan admixture in Europe? In Scandinavian Europe? If that exists, it's so low it might as well not exist. Are you really trying to argue about the possibility that there might have been one black person there or something? 😂. That's kinda weird, imagine some Europeans being like "well sub saharans do have trace amounts of Eurasian ancestry, I bet there was probably a couple White Zulus." It's weird.

@celtiberian

Жыл бұрын

This is true for anything. The burden of proof lies with the one that makes an affirmation. You don't have the burden to debunk baseless bullshit.

Thank God! You completely expressed what I've been feeling all along about blackwashing European history. Africa has a lengthy tradition of oral historians---the griots---who had the same role as the bards in Celtic Britain, and much of their narrative was written down by (of all people) white Victorian missionaries. Why doesn't the black community bring these myths/histories to life and take pride in their own ACTUAL backstory?!

@danieldavis6288

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because we might find out how much slavery happened amongst the black peoples on their home continent, and we can't have that because it wouldn't be PC.

@admirekashiri6651

2 жыл бұрын

Some are but ofcourse going mainstream isn't straightforward or easy.

@admirekashiri6651

2 жыл бұрын

@@danieldavis6288 anyone who knows history knows there was slavery in parts of Africa just like anywhere else on Earth.

@Revenant-oq9ts

2 жыл бұрын

The black community does, when they are aware of it. The Hollywood community is the one that doesn't think it's profitable and so does not raise awareness of it.

@danieldavis6288

2 жыл бұрын

@@admirekashiri6651 That's the thing, recent generations are becoming increasingly dependent upon themselves or non-academics for any kind of realistic or at least accurate portrayal of history.

It's insidious how especially this is going to be unquestionably believed by the younger gens bc the historical truth will have been removed

@Visse90

8 ай бұрын

I'm sure you are wrong. Young people are not stupid and they are not responsible for this fuck up.

Just found ur channel I love ur vids

"As a human being, yes it is my history" dude that's what keeps me coming back, you are so open to ideas and have strong convictions as well. Thank you for this video 👍

@thelordraj5412

2 жыл бұрын

you know a lot of people watching this channel don't genuinely share that point of view

@agingerbeard

2 жыл бұрын

@@thelordraj5412 human history is my history.

@dreadcthulhu5

2 жыл бұрын

@@thelordraj5412 🤷

@error4159

Жыл бұрын

It's not history it's total fiction. Valhalla never existed. So making Odin a Japanese crossdressing hermaphrodite doesn't change one bit of actual history. Also wheres all the bitching and moaning for "historical accuracy" when studios cast white dudes to play Asian, Hispanic or Middle Eastern characters?

@agingerbeard

Жыл бұрын

@@error4159 the only one moaning is you.

It's so tiresome to see another northern settlement named "Kattegat". Kattegat is not a habitated place, it's a body of water between Sweden and Denmark!

@warbler1984

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually the exact same Kattegat as the original series

@elpsykoongro5379

2 жыл бұрын

And I thought it was somewhere in Norway or something while trying to find it in ck2 and ck3 but couldn’t find it so I thought it was a mythological location or something

@R4G34D0N

2 жыл бұрын

​@@elpsykoongro5379 Norway has fjords, Sweden and Denmark doesn't, Ragnar is believed to be from Denmark, but Denmark would be boring on a cinema screen, same with Sweden, thats why in every viking movie/show they use Norway

@motv1nd193

2 жыл бұрын

@@elpsykoongro5379 the ck games got tönsberg (which is in norway) though.. one might believe that the show's kattegat is like a nordic atlantis haha

Imagine we take a European, Asian or Native American woman and plop her into the pre-Zulu Kingdom area and name her Shaka Zulu. Then when anyone points out how this is wrong, we tell them that we don't have proof that there wasn't a European/Asian or Native American woman named Shaka Zulu who just so happened to rule in Africa that it's okay. It would be ludicrous. So is this.

@bavariancarenthusiast2722

2 жыл бұрын

why not? if it sells better and it's a fictional series which shows us the rich culture of the Zulu before the English arrive? I like this kind of movies actually.

@503mcbee

2 жыл бұрын

Like Tarzan or something like that?

@hellacoorinna9995

2 жыл бұрын

@@503mcbee Or "The Phantom" aka "The Ghost Who Walks"

@Bi0m3ga

2 жыл бұрын

It's funny that many people don't complain if they use a mixed ancestry actor to play a fully African character, but use the same actor to play a European character it's suddenly wrong. Caroline Henderson is a Danish-Swedish. She legitimately has more “Viking” ancestry than most of the people birching in these comments cause she doesn't fit their stereotype of a Nordic person.

@hellacoorinna9995

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bi0m3ga *5 Hours ago( _"Caroline Henderson is a Danish-Swedish. She legitimately has more “Viking” ancestry"_ Chadwick Boseman was born in South Carolina. Jarlto Copley was born in Johannesberg. By your own words, you'd be perfectly happy with Jarlto Copley, playing T'Challa or Shaka Zulu or, the like.

Odds of a native American in Scandinavia: vikings came, kidnapped a native, the native American somehow survived the trip, the Scandinavian weather, Scandinavian diseseases (Europen diseases killed millions of native Americans because they didn't have an immune system adapted for it), became a free person, became a viking and no one ever wrote about this not even as a legend.

@robc6391

2 жыл бұрын

And on top of that she got into a position of power. Quite substantial position of power. Talk about being lucky multiplied by massive portion of luck. But that is not my problem with these shows. My issue is how hypocritical these people are. If you make a show about an african tribe and put a white lady to play that role what do you think would happen? If you don't like whitewashing (and I get that and agree with it, John Wayne as Genghis Khan is fucking ridiculous and insulting) you shouldn't be okay with this either. One rule for all or isn't that what equal means? :)

@tdoran616

2 жыл бұрын

Also learned a Scandinavian language to the level of fluency

@MrJonblundmusic

Жыл бұрын

Those viruses and disseases outa' Europe didn't start developing before people in areas of Europe started to mingle together like sardins in a can/box. When people live on top of eachother, tight spaces with littered streets. Houses literally stacked together and so to are the people. Then if, and one need only add bad hygiene as a fact also....then you get what you got and you got what you get from what a mess you have made or get made. There is no way around it. It is doomed to get filthy and get sick

@josephdockemeyer6782

Жыл бұрын

@@MrJonblundmusic Bubonic Plague (Black Death) came from the eastern spice trade route. Syphilis came from the Americas. Smallpox from Syria and Egypt. Chlamydia and gonorrhea from muslims having intercourse with cows and sheep (legal acts under islam).

@pfl95

Жыл бұрын

that would be a cool fictional tale, though no problem of that show or movie being made

I love your content and the way you present it. I have wondered when are people going to stop accepting crumbs. Africa is a large continent with many different countries and cultures. Why don't they do a movie based on a countries history from Africa. The did it with the Zulus which was very well received. Once again thank you for your videos.

The first question that I can think of is 'why?'. Just to piss people off? That's what modern shows have come down to?

Do an episode on Northman, interested to see your take on it.

@comradekenobi6908

2 жыл бұрын

The Movie With No Name

@monalisadavinci7076

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I would appreciate your explanation on the mythology in the movie

@andregon4366

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, good movies should be more talked about than crappy "THE MESSAGE" pushing movies.

@GuardianAngle93

2 жыл бұрын

@@andregon4366 critical drinker fan?

@jeffs6081

2 жыл бұрын

I really hope he covers that movie!

After black Anne Boleyn, I've lost all hope in accurate historical TV (films, TV series) Metatron did you ever watch HBO Rome? I can't really remember if was really accurate or not.

@thegator7018

2 жыл бұрын

Rome is Very authentic, they had to alter here and there due to the brass making the creator finish in 2 seasons but it’s one of the better ones you are going to get. If you want more detail on this look up history buffs on KZread they have videos reviewing both seasons

@NeonKnight707

2 жыл бұрын

I want to see Jackie Chan take a serious role as Henry VIII next

@damianolanzoni9583

2 жыл бұрын

It depends, some choices are made to obtain an "artistic" enhancement of certain concepts. For instance when they used modern songs as a soundtrack for the movie "Marie Antoinette": we know that they didn't listen to that music but it's a good way to make fully understand their way of living. In this case the director casted a black actress to play Anne Boleyn amidst an all white cast to make her loneliness and even more prominent.

@As-tray

2 жыл бұрын

@@damianolanzoni9583 he casted her because it sells. Plain and simple.

@als3022

2 жыл бұрын

@@As-tray Rationalize all they want. We all know the reason was for THE MESSAGE! As the critical drinker calls it

They figure Leif Ericson and others with him arrived in area later known as Newfoundland, Canada around 1000 AD. And that 9 buildings built by them still remain there.