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Black Turlogh
On the contrary, this portrayal of Hannibal is directly resultant of their having taken race into consideration.
You must excuse me...Really?.
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To my knowledge, there is no known authentic, historical depiction of Hannibal neither on coin face or in bust form,
I have provided an anthropoligically/etiologically correct 'bust'. - is it wrong...?
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which may allow for some amount of interpretation as to how he may have looked. This does not mean we may throw all logic out the window and invent a depiction which does not go with the grain of historical truth, however.
But this sounds a lot like what you are doing.
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That they chose a black man is by no means a mistake.
Black as pitch...?!?!? - Surely you jest.
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It is a calculated maneuver meant to serve the interest of political correctness. Carthaginians were not a "black" people; rather, they were most likely a Mediterranean group of comparable physical stock to the Romans, Greeks, and south-eastern Hispanics.
Elaborate, please.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there was a wider agenda behind this; to depict Hannibal as such is to imply that Carthaginians were black Africans.
Uhhhhhhhh...:suspicious: Duhh.
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To imply that Carthaginians were black Africans is to, therefore, suggest that they (black Africans) have been playing a major role in European history for over two millennia. To suggest black Africans have been playing a major role in European history for over two millennia is to, by extension, suggest that they are nothing particularly foreign to Europe, after all.
And, then, what do you make of this suggestion...?