Turns out Ludwig van Beethoven wasn't black after all
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tl;dr Ludwig van Beethoven was >99% European.
In case you haven't heard about this particular leftist propaganda: they claimed Beethoven was black.
Now a university ran genome analysis on a lock of his hair. To nobody's surprise (nobody sane anyway) he's >99% European, central European at that.
They also claim that all of Shakespeares plays were actually written by a black woman. That fried chicken invented in Scotland was actually invented by African slaves in America. On and on, you can’t have someone fart without someone claiming it was a black person that did it first.
There's a surprising amount of black culture in the US that was carried over from Ireland, Scotland, and Britain.
It's both less and more surprising when you look up just how many inventions were from the hands of Scots.
It's less surprising because there are that many so it's inevitable it would influence a lot of the world;
Pedal bikes, pneumatic tyres, tubular steel, canal design, wire rope, cordite, telephones, radar, ATM and PINs, logarithms, hypnotism, noble gases, golf, ice hockey [suck it Canada], saline drips, hypodermic syringes, ECGs, chainsaws, refridgerators, flush toilets, lawnmowers, carronade cannons, Ferguson rifles, Ghillie suits, and a lot more.
It's more surprising because there are that many coming from just Scotland.