Sure, no problem at all!
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*I just want to preface this by saying I am on your side and this cult like behavior of getting extremely defensive of even the most minor grievances with Tariq, Dr. Umar and FCW where they are above any criticism is extremely creepy past the point of simple dikkriding. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean that they are the "enemy" or out to get someone. The "us against the world" mentality and rampant deflection of criticism is used often by religious cults/extremist and multi level marketing/pyramid scam artists.*
Characteristics Associated with Cultic Groups - Revised
Janja Lalich, Ph.D. & Michael D. Langone, Ph.D.
http://www.csj.org/infoserv_cult101/checklis.htm
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From the first hidden colors film, this was one of the things that I had question marks pop up and I had to go and look up after watching the film because they seemed questionable. I watched it a few months back so forgive me if it isn't word for word, I'm just going off of what I remembered that stuck out to me.
-In the first film at one point he refers to Beethoven as black because of a description that used the term swarthy and used this to shoe horn in this entire spiel that black people invented classical music because of this. It's true that Spain was home to a number of Moors (people, usually Muslims, of North African descent), but it does not mean everyone under the Spanish flag was Moorish.
Beethoven's ancestry is well-documented. His father Johann was half Flemish, half German. His mother, Maria Magdalena Keverich, was the daughter of Heinrich Keverich, chief overseer of the kitchen at the palace of the Elector of Treves at Ehrenbreitstein, in Germany. Beethoven was only 1/4 Flemish. The rest of his family, including his mother, from whom proponents claim his African ancestry originated, were German and of well-to-do stock. The Flemish connection only means there is a possibility of Spanish and/or Moorish influence. A small chance. Less than a quarter.
Beethoven's contemporaries described him as having "thick, bristly coal-black hair," a "flat, thick nose," large mouth, and what is described as alternately "ruddy" or "swarthy" complexion. In the middle of Teutonic Germany and Austria, where the average citizen had light skin, blue eyes, and blond hair, he must have made a striking, memorable presence. But what constitutes "swarthy" amongst such a population might not be what modern people consider "negroid." It just meant he was darker than the pale-skinned Germans. A Californian with a tan would have been classified as "swarthy." You have to understand that he was among people who looked like this and avoided sunlight to not appear as if they were apart of the working class These people in the picture has thick, bristly hair but are as white as a prep school lacrosse team.
All that can be concluded about the matter of Beethoven's ethnicity was indeed "exotic" in looks. He might have been darker than his contemporaries, but calling Beethoven "Black" would be extremely misleading. However, it is important to note that no one called Beethoven black or a moor during his lifetime, and the Viennese were keenly aware both of Moors and of mulattos, such as George Bridgetower, the famous violinist who collaborated with Beethoven.
A portrait of Beethoven that was painted during his lifetime. He looks like Hugh Jackman.
An actual mulatto musician from the same time period who was actually referred to as a mulatto.
Has a black parent................
tariq puting that work
