Just last night, my son and I were watching Jurassic Park, and this morning I woke up to the heartbreaking news that my favorite actor, Sam Neill, had passed away.
Before films about Slavic history begin depicting Slavs as Black, one linguistic fact is worth noting: Polish has a distinct historical term for people of African descent—Murzyn, derived from Maur (“Moor”). It has never referred to a Slavic tribe or people.
I’m a bigot for saying Greeks are white? Okay then. You’re a racist for inserting yourselves into other people’s stories and mythologies and attempting to usurp their history. Blacks have no place in our stories because we’re not and never have been black.
I took my son to see the new Minions movie, and there they were Lovecraftian monsters—Cthulhu, Dagon, Shoggoth, and Nyarlathotep. A little girl and her dad walked out of the cinema… My son stayed and kept asking for more details. ;)