Are the "Hidden Colors" Documentaries Accurate?

by Lionaber

Here are some of their claims:

  1. Greek scholars saw black Africans and their superior intellectual prowess as a result of their higher melanin levels.

  2. The vampire fascination came from rabid cannibalism in Europe during the Medieval Period.

  3. Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a black woman

  4. Charles II of England was black

  5. There was a prominent black presence in Scotland including a black king named "King Dubh".

  6. Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo were taught their insights by black Africans.

  7. Italy became known as a fashion mecca because of the moors.

  8. Mozart was taught to play by a black teacher.

  9. Beethoven was half-black and when he went dead his melanin "kicked in" and he became a better musician.

  10. A black man named Alexander Pushkin invented the Russian language and because of him the Russians don't speak French.

  11. Black Africans established the first dynasties in Asia.

  12. The founders of the "samurai system" was a black African

  13. The founders of the "ninja system" was a black African

  14. There is a consistent conspiracy throughout history by white people to hide all of this and "European historians" purposefully omit this information to uphold a system of "white supremacy".

Edit: Beethoven went deaf. That was my bad, they didn't say he was blind.

discworldian

So most of these, to me, read like conspiracy theories. However, there is a grain of truth to 10).

Alexander Pushkin had a great-grandfather who was from Africa and was brought to the court of Peter the Great as a slave.

This man was named Abraham Petrovich Hanibal/Gannibal.

You can see the ancestry here, with Pushkin mentioned in the third generation.

Edit: clearer ancestry note found in BL sources.