Heterodox
The BBC produced a cartoon as part of their “The Story of Britain” series called “Roman Britain”.In the original description (which the BBC has since changed), the family depicted was described as a “typical family: The video presents a black person as a high-status Roman officer and, according to the description above, as the head of a “typical family”:[embedded content]But why on earth is a person who appears to be a sub-Saharan African (or possibly an indigenous North African) being...
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