Dear BBC - It's okay to be white! Stop being racist to greeks - thanks.
http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/bbc-netflix-troy-fall-of-a-city-1202646162/
PC Madness strikes again! When will this weird push for adding Sub-Saharan Africans into European history and myth ever end?
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Zeus was a God for centuries to the Greeks, and he certainly wasn’t portrayed as black.
The Greeks made hundreds of statues of him and their other Gods, the great statue of Zeus at Olympia was a wonder of the ancient world and he looked nothing like a Sub-Saharan African you ignorant fool.
Don't be a dummy and read some books for once in your life.
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Achilles nor any Greek warrior would have ever of looked like the actor David Gyasi in the Trojan War. I’ve no doubt he’s a capable actor but has clearly been cast here to tick boxes, to make the white middle-class morons who make this crap happy. The historicity of the Trojan War is still subject to debate, which is unlikely to ever be proven either way, much like the existence of King Arthur.
Have Ancient Greeks in art, literature, movies or even video games ever been portrayed as black men? Nope.
Only the likes of the BBC do this, shoving black people into European myth and history because they seem to think Africa doesn’t have any historical tales worth telling, which is wrong btw!
It doesn’t matter if its fiction or not, the educated world knows what Zeus looked like by the many statues of him, and those who have read the Iliad know that Homer repeatedly describes Achilles as blonde and golden-haired.
Movies and TV shows of the Trojan War are few and far between so it’s sad when the BBC decide to piss all over it with misguided political correctness.
You sound very triggered btw, perhaps internet forums are not for you, maybe you’re of the generation that thinks safe spaces are the norm, if so I feel very sorry for you, if not settle down and act like an adult.
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You can’t even make an argument without hurling insults, I’ve refuted your so called fictional argument in my first response to you, Zeus was a God to a nation of people for hundreds of years, that’s hardly comparable to a character like Hermione Granger whom any female can play for example.
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