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  • What’s with Hollywood making a character black even if it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. A black Roman Emperor? Really? The Romans were not that progressive. It feels so forced.

    It’s like the producers heard emperor Macrinus was from Africa and they’re like “oh he was black!” No he was a Roman provincial born in Africa. He was not of African descent. It reminds me of that Cleopatra documentary. A complete ignorance of northern Africa and it’s ethnic populations, considering to this day northern Africans are not ethnically black.

    Why not just make a movie about George Washington and hire Morgan Freeman?

    Anyways, it’s weird when Hollywood race swaps. And as someone who loves roman history, the whole thing is really distracting.