it's dumb because the D&D orc is taken wholesale from the tolkien orc... and the tolkien orc was not a representative of blacks, but was created by magic that corrupted high elves making them lust for power and growing them an aversion to concepts like private property...
in other words, orcs aren't blacks... they're communists.
Funnier still. DnD orcs aren't even that close to elves. They were lifted thematically but they do have an origin of their own as a race. Gruumsh, their god, created them to be a plague on all other races out of spite for the beauty of the elves, and hatred of the elf god Correllon who put out one of Gruumsh's eyes.
it's dumb because the D&D orc is taken wholesale from the tolkien orc... and the tolkien orc was not a representative of blacks, but was created by magic that corrupted high elves making them lust for power and growing them an aversion to concepts like private property...
in other words, orcs aren't blacks... they're communists.
Funnier still. DnD orcs aren't even that close to elves. They were lifted thematically but they do have an origin of their own as a race. Gruumsh, their god, created them to be a plague on all other races out of spite for the beauty of the elves, and hatred of the elf god Correllon who put out one of Gruumsh's eyes.