BREAKING NEWS: people of color exist as more than just former slaves and entertainment for white people

Do people not realize that, like, Africa and Europe are super close to one another??????

...uh no...???

depending on the place in europe, they were probably traders

y'know. for trade. and money.

...also uh, if this is before the trans-atlantic slave trade, the poc were probably selling the slaves, too

SORRY FOR TAKING OVER UR PLURK IT JUST

angry noises at bad history!!!

I ALSO ANGRY NOISES AT BAD HISTORY

Hey did you know Rome built roads all over the place but then nobody ever used them

WHAT NO

tbf Europeans will be the first ones to deny it

White people are the worst

they really are

hey did u know that people like having money

and then trade with each other

to make more money

Like once I get my history degree I really want to do something with it other than be a teacher but at this point I feel like it is my duty to be a teacher just so lil kiddos actually learn something other than western civilization whitewashing bs

ifkr

ALSO like poc is a complete misnomer in this case because nation of origin is a much, much bigger deal than it is now

or religion

I think I’ve said on here before but I legit had at least three different history teachers in school who taught the civil war was over economics not slavery and it was Lincoln’s fault the slavery part was ever brought up in the war at all

especially religion

fgdgnjkdsgnksjn

god, religion in the middle ages

just the biggest goddamn mess

Lol right???

THERE WERE ONCE THREE SEPARATE POPES

Remember when that one dead pope was dug up and put on trial

omg the pope trial

yaaaas

Good times good times

it can happen in crusader kings 2!!

if the pope is sufficiently Shitty

crusader kings 2 btw also has characters able to be not-white in europe due to arranged marriages et al and marks off if one is homosexual/gay

so y'know

good job there, folks

What

it's a trait they get!

Gay people didn’t exist until the 1970s didn’t you know

oh shit right

i forgot

There were just a bunch of unmarried besties who lived with each other and wrote letters about how much they liked sleeping together before then

we couldn't have the gay agenda until we worked out the rainbow thing

lmfao

That was just, you know, how people spoke back then

yes, of course!

JUST BACHELORS BEING BACHELORS

gosh

“My dearest love, I cannot wait until I am once again in your arms. Also please find included one sketch of my penis.” is just old timey talk for ‘hey bro sup wanna hang later and play beer pong?’

god didn't one of the king james' keep giving their boyfriend rank increases until he was like, an ultra duke

or something

This sounds familiar.

AHA it was the first

Sir John Oglander observed that he "never yet saw any fond husband make so much or so great dalliance over his beautiful spouse as I have seen King James over his favourites, especially the Duke of Buckingham"[134] whom the King would, recalled Sir Edward Peyton, "tumble and kiss as a mistress."

TOTALLY NOT GAY, YOU GUYS

(the duke's name is george villiers)

Under the king's patronage Villiers advanced rapidly through the ranks of the nobility, and his court appointments grew in importance. In 1615 he was knighted as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. In 1616, when he was made the King's Master of Horse, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Whaddon, Viscount Villiers, and made a Knight of the Garter.[9]

NOT.

GAY.

Gentleman of the bedchamber you say?

yes you see he uh

guards the bed

very prestigious

Slightly somewhat related: this YouTube channel I follow has a series of videos about history and they are gr8 and hilarious and I think you would like them

HISTORY: It's All A Little Bit Silly - ROMAN EMPIRE

That’s the most recent one and it is soooo goooooood