Why do black people keep trying to claim Hannibal?

[The Super Pope]

I picture Hannibal as looking like Eric Bana. Not sure why

[LegionnaireX]

I picture Hannibal as looking like Eric Bana. Not sure why

Nah. Eric Bana is too tall, thin and queer looking. I picture Hannibal being an Arab Russel Crowe.

[Erik]

As had been said before: Moors are of mixed ethnicity. They had Arabs, Berbers, and Blacks.

That's why I said mostly blacks.

[felicissimus]

Hannibal's bust made while he was alive : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal

Hannibal on a coin and Hasdrubalwww.livius.org/ha-hd/hannibal/hannibal.htmlal

They look quite white-race to me .

[removeduser_487563287433]

Hey look its the Moorish Ambassador.

Felicissimus the face on that coin is not Hannibal.

[felicissimus]

Felicissimus the face on that coin is not Hannibal.

Well I dunno what a "melquart " is but supposing the coin is of Hannibal as the inscription says,perhaps that is a god-like reflection of Hannibal like the romans glorified Augustus and ceasars as gods .I don't know the exact english word .The other one depicts Hasdrubal as well .

[Armfelt]

There is only one race: human

Homo Sapiens is a species, not a race.

[iudas]

Plus Moor is a seriously ancient word that has applied to various areas at various times.

QFT. Didn't the Romans name a Berber area Mauretania?

[removeduser_487563287433]

Well I dunno what a "melquart " is but supposing the coin is of Hannibal as the inscription says,perhaps that is a god-like reflection of Hannibal like the romans glorified Augustus and ceasars as gods .I don't know the exact english word .The other one depicts Hasdrubal as well .

Melqart is one of the semitic Gods. But yes, you may well be right about it being a mix of Hannibal and a god like Augustus and Apollo or Alexander and Apollo.

QFT. Didn't the Romans name a Berber area Mauretania?

Well yes. Don't think they would have made up the name. The Moors were major players in the Second Punic War. They were not the same Moors that ruled Spain - but were in at least part their ancestors.

[jackwei]

i think at the end of the day is that black people in north africa were and seem completely different to those of west africa and south africa like i said it is the same u could say with other countries for an example in europe with different types of people English, French, German, Spanish etc etc. honestly i think africans of west africa and the rest had nothing to do with those of north africa and were well excatly the same as them too.

so their histories have no relations or links what so ever so any one of those channels try to claim emperor severus was black or someone dark from north africa well it has nothing to do with them since their people have no such relation or blood to them.

[Juvenal]

Although I can't suppress a slight shudder at the prospect of the Vin Diesel treatment of Hannibal, there is some small hope. Vin is apparently a Hannibal enthusiast and plans to do the film in Greek Latin and Punic - Mel Gibson style. So whatever finally appears (if anything), it won't be a standard Hollywood action flick.

In the mean time I am more than happy with the BBC TV drama documentary of Hannibal played by Alexander Siddig. He seems rather well cast as Hannibal not only because he has the right look, but also because he has sufficient screen presence and charisma to convince me that he could have been a leader of men (something that Colin Farrell completely failed to do for me in Alexander). I believe that Alexander Siddig is actually Sudanese.

[removeduser_487563287433]

Too many eyes. I suppose that's before the alps.
Anyway, maybe Vin will do a good job. He looks reasonable for the part and is not muscle head, he's actually quite the nerd.

[-Conan the Barbarian-]

Here are some North Africans.


Mediterranean (Libya)

Nordic (Algeria)

Upper-Paleolithic (Morocco)



http://racialreality.110mb.com/north_africans.html

Too many eyes. I suppose that's before the alps.
Anyway, maybe Vin will do a good job. He looks reasonable for the part and is not muscle head, he's actually quite the nerd.

indeed, he used to play D and D

[Woad-Warrier]

Isnt that Zinedine Zidane?

[-Conan the Barbarian-]

Isnt that Zinedine Zidane?

Yeah he's of North African descent right?

[Tordis_Umulius]

Yup, he's from Algeria.

[mongoose]

I don't see how claiming Hannibal is black is so much worse than depicting Jesus as a white European looking guy.

[removeduser_487563287433]

That's an excellent point.

[-Conan the Barbarian-]

I don't see how claiming Hannibal is black is so much worse than depicting Jesus as a white European looking guy.

They are both wrong however. We shouldn't say "well they depict Jesus as a white guy so we get full reign to depict Hannibal, Cleopatra and even Caesar as black guys."

[mongoose]

They are both wrong however. We shouldn't say "well they depict Jesus as a white guy so we get full reign to depict Hannibal, Cleopatra and even Caesar as black guys."

I'm just saying that there are worse, much more common misrepresentations going on. I'm going to hazard a guess and say that Jesus is more important to most people than Hannibal.