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The First Swedes Were Dark-skinned with blue eyes from Africa. by cocolacec(m): 2:43pm On Aug 09, 2020
A Documentary Claiming The First Swedes Were Dark-Skinned Has Fragile White Folks Up In Arms.

Black History is not something inherently exclusive to America. It spans the hidden corners and crevices of the world around us. With that said, there’s a new documentary from SVT about Sweden that makes a very interesting claim: the first Swedes were dark-skinned Black people with blue eyes. Aptly titled The First Swedes, the documentary reveals that the first Swedes were dark-skinned hunters and collectors who moved to Scandinavia from the south towards the end of the Ice Age. Matthias Jakobsson, an Uppsala University genetics professor traces the ancestry of present-day Swedes back to Africa.

“Their look was quite similar to the people that at that time lived in today's Luxembourg, Spain and Germany. Their look would be quite unusual today, blue eyes with dark skin," he said.

Upon their arrival to Scandinavia, these dark-skinned Black hunters were met by another population from Russia with paler skin. The two populations are said to have mixed, which led to Nordic people becoming more lighter skinned. Safe to say, the responses that Sweden's first descendants were dark-skinned Black people did not go over well with some on Twitter.

A journalist, Ingrid Carlsson tweeted: (translated) "The BBC has been doing this for a long time, for homogeneous Sweden to be portrayed as populated by black people is too outlandish to be true."

Another user tweeted: (translated) "Wow, SVT open with their racism against Swedes. Now, imagine a film about Africa with white people."

Check out some of the other Twitter responses below:

https://www.rt.com/news/451766-swedes-outraged-ancestors-documentary/
https://shadowandact.com/a-documentary-claiming-the-first-swedes-were-dark-skinned-has-fragile-white-folks-up-in-arms

Re: The First Swedes Were Dark-skinned with blue eyes from Africa. by cocolacec(m): 3:07pm On Aug 09, 2020
Re: The First Swedes Were Dark-skinned with blue eyes from Africa. by Unnerve: 5:45pm On Aug 09, 2020
I'm pretty sure that those of them who are upset about having black ancestry would have preferred if the study revealed it was aliens with superpowers who first settled in Sweden. Perhaps intermixing with a resident neanderthal population is what made Swedes assume human form with no superpowers.

Fvcking racists cheesy

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