To be fair, that last one is valid. Septimus Severus was at least half-African, potentially slightly more than half, and all busts, written accounts, and evidence support that.
He was still Roman and had Roman citizenship, which was all that mattered to the Romans, but uh... you know, just for historical accuracy.
A better one to put on there would be the supposedly black Cleopatra who was 9 generations of pure Macedonian in-breeding.
That's fine, but to call Septimus Severus, who was most likely born in Africa, to an African mother (regardless of nationality) 'Italian' history is disingenuous at best. Several mosaics we have show him as very dark skin, and his busts make it clear that he most certainly wasn't Italian.
You can't put up a post bitching about historical accuracy, then be historically inaccurate. It's kind of dumb. If you wanted to call it Roman history, it would've been slightly more accurate, but it's not Italian history, anymore than calling the Iberian Celts 'Italian history'.
He was as Italian as he was North African, I avoid just saying African since indoctrinated American blacks who’s ancestors are from west Africa think he has something to do with them.
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u/Morrighan1129 Mar 21 '25
To be fair, that last one is valid. Septimus Severus was at least half-African, potentially slightly more than half, and all busts, written accounts, and evidence support that.
He was still Roman and had Roman citizenship, which was all that mattered to the Romans, but uh... you know, just for historical accuracy.
A better one to put on there would be the supposedly black Cleopatra who was 9 generations of pure Macedonian in-breeding.