>>120352715Rome maintained auxiliaries comprised of locals. To say that African auxiliaries were "Roman soldiers" is actually fairly whitewashed. And no, they were not found all over the Empire.
We do this every time this commercial is brought up. It misrepresents historical facts as hidden truths and blames all white people for supposedly being responsible. But you didn't learn about "Black Filament Man" for the same reason you didn't learn about "English Filament Man Who Pioneered the Whole Idea to Begin With." Neither are evidence of massive historical fraud against blacks or the English. "Black knights" is so openly, knowingly misrepresentative it's actually concerning. There were black "knights" in the same sense there were British "samurai," in the sense that both were a class of warriors indentured to a lord. So call that class of British warriors "samurai" would be roundly mocked, so why call the African equivalents anything but the names that were used for them?
It's such a tragic commercial. It represents the utter failure of the social fabric, the education system, and the culture more broadly.
