Iām having a huge problem with liberals not understanding what a āblack personā is. Sure there were africans in europe, but those africans were either traveling or enslaved, or people with very special circumstances that you must explain. They werenāt ābritishā, they werenāt immigrants. You canāt have some character be black and a nobleman from England in the 19th century without giving some context cause yeah that wasnāt the norm.
āBlack people existedā, the whole concept of blackness is so new, mentioning it is anachronistic.
And the whole ānorth africaā argument. North africans were considered white until 2 years ago when the US decided Arabs are not white anymore. Stop it with your fake āinclusionā as if people only exist when they step onto your continent. Write your damn fic in africa. Write about actual african characters, and actual asian characters, they donāt have to step in america/europe to exist.
People who believe that north africans and indians are interchangeable cause āboth brownā are telling us to ācelebrate the inclusivityā. We are already in our media, we didnāt stop existing cause western media didnāt have āpeople of colorā or whatever other ridiculous term you want to throw at 80% of the frickin globe population.
If itās fantasy explain how this reality is different from the one weāre living in. If itās āhistoricalā then have it make sense in the historical context. You canāt just have characters āhappen to be an ethnicity from a different continentā. That shit was not the norm. Some places in africa still freak out if they see a white person, most chinese people havenāt seen a black person, and you think 18th century Europe was āopenā?
Anyway, history exists, read on it or decide to go with a whole different reality and it would be nice to see why in that reality Africa wasnāt plundered by europe and why europeans in that reality considered them equal, or whatever the race situation is in that fictional work. Whatever else youāre doing is a cop out and dumb.
Iām gonna stop here cause that whole is so ridiculous.
Octavia E Butler wrote about a time traveling black woman who found herself a century ago and guess what, she was taken as a slave. Cause thatās the fuckin context of history.
PS: read an actual book that was written before 1930, not āhistorical fiction released in the 2020sā and read how the europeans spoke about non-europeans. Like get a clue about reality before throwing your 2 cents.