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Masterofchaos Since: Dec, 2010
#1: Oct 6th 2020 at 7:40:41 PM

Before I begin, I want to empathize the fact that while I am a person of color, specially black, the problems I have with this trope has nothing to do with my personal feelings. I also want to say that I do not have an agenda or want any trouble with the mods or other tropers. Instead, what I want to do is bring up why I think this trope page needs to be axed. The short answer: simple research.

To start with, Black Vikings is inaccurate. A quick google research will show that there were, in fact, black vikings in history. Also, there was absolutely no point in history where it was just white folks in Europe and people of color just suddenly popped up. At best, it's just flat out misinformation.

But what really hurts this trope more than anything is the fact that, before it was cut, there was a real life section that listed all the times people of color existed in Europe.

These factors pretty much show that there's really no reason for this trope to stay. Multiple people have brought up problems with this page, both on the discussion page, and on other sites such as Twitter.

Again, I have absolutely no ill intent with this. I just want to bring attention to the fact that this trope has a lot of issues and shows a profound lack of research.

Edited by Masterofchaos on Oct 15th 2020 at 11:29:42 AM

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