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Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History...

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Let’s not forget to acknowledge Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month


The writer of two of the most well known stories worldwide, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo was a black man. 


That’s excellence.



Let’s not forget that he was played on screen by a white man. And the fact that he was black is barely ever mentioned or the book he wrote inspired by his experiences.



Holy shit. I had to go look this up, but it’s for real. That is incredible, and also an incredible example of the whitewashing of history.

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Published on February 16, 2014 12:01
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message 1: by Wayne (new)
Apr 28, 2017 08:26PM

Wayne Sims Alexandre Dumas was 75% white and 25% black. Three of his grandparents were French whites. His paternal grandmother was an African woman enslaved in Haiti, married and set free by the French nobleman who married her. Their son, a mulatto (50% black and 50% white) was Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, who in turn married a white woman and became the father of Alexandre Dumas.

This pattern for "black" persons who display a significant degree of talent to be, in fact, more white than black, is quite common. Another example is Jan Earnst Matzeliger, born in 1852 in Paramaribo, Suriname, to a Dutch father and a Surinamese mother of African descent. The Dutch father was A MECHANICAL ENGINEER. Guess which side of his family Jan Earnst Matzeliger got his own mechanical aptitude from?


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