Apparently there's going to be a new Three Musketeers movie with a Black D'Artagnan, and the usual suspects are doing the usual howling about wokeness and ahistoricity and so on. So here's your regular reminder the The Three Musketeers was written by a Black man. Dumas' father was the son of an enslaved African woman and a French Marquis (not a pretty story there), and he rose to become a hero of the French Revolutionary Wars and a General-in-Chief in the French army.
@outeast happy for all sorts of actors playing all sorts of roles. This case sounds particularly interesting. But I hate that we keep perpetuating the very American and racist idea that it takes "a drop of non white blood" to make a person black. Dumas was, if you need a racial term, mixed-race---like most humans if you look deep enough.
@outeast I bet Dumas self-identified as a Frenchman, since national identity is the 19th century social construct.
@lmrocha Yes, I've heard this sentiment, but Black isn't a race or even an ethnicity in any meaningful biological sense. It's anachronistic to use a 20th century identity term for a gentleman of the 19th century, but that was rhetorical of course. It's a toot not a paper, and I can't check in with Dumas and find out how he'd self-identify in 2023.