Why is guinevere black

BET and why black people have award shows is weird. To put this to rest black people have their own award shows because we are under-represented in popular culture. End of story. But people of any descent are not allowed to be the hero of the story in both American and British culture.

And I only address these cultures because they are the only cultures that I am apart of. My problem with the second question is this notion of historically correct.

Arthurian History…well that is completely up to who you read and what you take from them. According to Gregory Monmouth Guinevere was a descendent of a wealthy Roman family.

In another tale she is an accomplice to Modred in his treachery. She is faithful wife, who later, in other writings is an adulteress. Merlin is a young warlock when he is supposed to be an old and wise wizard. Morgana, I assume, supposed to be Morgane Le Fay and in some writings is the sister of Merlin and in others the half sister of Arthur. I mean the entire show is full of inconsistencies because the legend is full of inconsistencies.

The fact that these people only pulled out the fact that she was black is racist. Whatever the truth — and we may never know for sure — the adventures of the legendary King Arthur, with his Round Table Fellowship of Knights based in the mythical city of Camelot, were told and retold between the 11th and 15th centuries in hundreds of manuscripts in at least a dozen languages.

Archaeologist and historian Miles Russells gives us a quick-fire glimpse into some of the most famous people, places and objects in the stories of King Arthur. The character of Mordred, the treacherous nephew, is based upon the first-century-BC king Mandubracius of the Trinovantes in Essex , a prince who betrayed his uncle to Julius Caesar. There is no equivalent of Lancelot in the earliest accounts of Arthur, his queen Ganhumara instead committing adultery with Mordred.

Added in the late 12th century, the quest for the Holy Grail adds a greater sense of both chivalry and religious destiny to the story of Arthur. There is no mention of a sword in the stone prophesy for Arthur in the earliest accounts of his life; Arthur simply inherits the kingdom from his father, Uther.

Historian John Matthews explores six big questions about King Arthur and his legend, separating the myth from reality…. The Round Table is the centerpiece of the Arthurian world. According to the 13th-century poet Layamon, Arthur ordered the table to be built for him by a famous Cornish carpenter, who somehow made the table capable of seating 1, men clearly an exaggeration , yet easily portable to wherever Arthur set up his mobile base of operations.

Some knights were said to have sat at the Round Table. When they had largely rid the land of monsters, dragons, and evil customs, the knights undertook their greatest task of all — the quest for the Holy Grail. Many did not return. Many faery women thread together the stories of Arthur and his knights. This is probably because a good number of the stories originated not in Britain, but in Brittany — or, as it was known then, Armorica or Aermorica, where belief in ancient deities and the faery race lived on.

These faery tales became interwoven with stories of chivalry beloved by the courtly circle. She was sweet. I haven't seen a fictional sweet black girl in This isn't a coincidence. Like most black stereotypes, its roots go all the way back to slavery, but its persistence and widespread range is due to media in the present day.

There are other stereotypes for black women, of course--the most obvious being the subordination of their characters to white ones. I don't mean just in terms of power and authority within the fictional world though that certainly happens , but also in their degree of importance in the narrative, whether their conflicts and inner lives matter. Does anyone remember the name of the women on Ally McBeal whose role was to hand Ally tissues?

There's also a deeply-held racist belief that black women are undesirable, or ugly, or good for sex but not real relationships and boy does this have roots in slavery. So by casting a black woman as Gwen, the show did a potentially radical thing. That potential really drew me into the show. But then the creators undid a lot of that by making her a maid. Because black woman as maid? A little bit of a stereotype.