All I know is their people over there eating rockets for breakfast
Got damn!
All I know is their people over there eating rockets for breakfast
Mohrenkopt huh? Moor's Head huh?
Yet they'll argue til they're blue in the face that the Moors weren't black
The French one is inaccurate. "Nègre" just meant Black for a long time and the name of the patisserie subsisted in some bakeries until it got cancelled.
Yeah. I'm sure the tiktoker is well intended, but he's off about that.
I'm all for people examining and calling out elements of their cultures that are wrong/negative but be accurate.
My cousin sends me social media vids like this every once in a while. I tell him the title of the books I gave him years ago about whatever topic the vid is about. And I scream on him, for apparently not having cracked open the book.
guess where Maleficent is from in Sleepy Beauty? MoorlandMoor's head - Wikipedia
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Typical/widespread French family names in France/Belgium/Switzerland/Quebec originating from the word moor:
-Morin
-Moreau
-Maurier
-Dumaurier
-Morel
Lemaure ( Maure means « moor » in French )
Saint Maurice - Wikipedia
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Racist insult in the French language : Moricaud
moricaud - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Typical and widespread Spanish/Portuguese family names originating from the word moor:
-Moreno
-Morello
-Mora
Racial Terms Spaniards/Portuguese/Colombians, Mexicans, Brazilians/Argentines use to describe brown skinned people : negro, negao, Moro, morenito, Moreno, Preto
Typical/widespread Italian surnames originating from the word moor:
-Morelli
-Mora
-Moro
-Morella
-Moreno
Typical/widespread English family surnames originating from the word moor:
-Moore
-Morris
-Morehead
-Blackmore
-Whitmore
-WestMoreland
-Moreland
Old racial Insults in the English language used to deceive dark skinned black folks:
-Blackamoor
Typical and widespread German family names originating from the word moor
-Moritz
-Mohr
-Mohren
-Mohrenburg
-Mohrenberg
Mohrenbrauerei - Wikipedia
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Go back and read MM's post.....