Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 06, 2015

BeethovenTruthers.com

Since when were there Africans in 18th/19th-century Germany (or the Holy Roman Empire back then)?

The people mistakenly called Moors were not black, dear. I’ve lived in Spain most of my life. I know this,.

Beethoven’s 5th has a deep bass line, it’s possible..

I was on a Egyptian Cruise on the Nile River (pre-revolution) and the further south I got the more I was asked if I was a “Moor”. Needless to say that I am a Black American. So yeah “orinoco wombie” seems to be either in denial or simply made a bit of a honest mistake.

By that…I’m still white. Year ‘round. I don’t tan OR burn. It’s rather pathetic, as I AM part Blackfoot NAI.

Starting week 2 of 1969 Peanuts daily strips.

And this was a few years before we ever heard of “The SOUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLL TRAIN:” (Apologies to the late Don Cornelious).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQzW73WRrYM

That doesn’t really answer the question. The Iberian Peninsula isn’t anywhere near Germany, which is what Templo was asking about. What he’s saying is that the Germany of Beethoven’s time (18th-19th century) would have been lily-white, so there is no chance that Beethoven would have been black or even biracial.

Yes, Schroeder, you’ve been playing soul music. Beethoven’s music is full of soul, passion, and energy. As a professional pianist, I certainly play his music as such. As a side note to the history lessons being given in the comments, and being an African American man, I am constantly being asked what my ethnicity is. People wonder if I’m from Afghanistan, Pakistan or India. I just smile.

Does it really matter?

http://www.academia.edu/4074689/Black_Beethoven_and_the_Racial_Politics_of_Music_History

That particular tidbit of information has been acknowledged for many years. So what?

After a certain point, you’re taking the wrong end of the stick if you make a bet on your ancestry.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2598/was-ludwig-van-beethoven-of-african-ancestry

Another attempt to change history.

Schulz was way ahead of the time, eh, Ms. Dolezal?

I love Soul Music and I have a 2-Disc Motown CD.xxx

Oh good grief……………………………………………………………………..

I’m waiting for the DNA results.

It doesn’t help that NunYa Bidness misspelled “Moor”!

A few facts in this whole question. Germany, and in particular Bonn where Beethoven was born, was adjacent to both France and the Netherlands which were both major colonial and slave trading powers. It was also a common practice in many European courts to have at least a few “blackamoor” servants, the term being “slang for dark skinned people.” So do I think that Beethoven was black, as Lucy suggests: no. Do I think that it is impossible that somewhere in his ancestry there might possibly have been a black person: again no, I don’t think that it is impossible.