Why is gwen black

Just so you people who said I am racist know that this is not only me. The story is not historically correct. Full stop. Those other examples that you gave me like the spoons and tomatoes are also reasons why I quitted the show.

In addition, King Arthur lived in the 5th century and there were hardly any poc in Europe that time, especially Britain. Go google it. There were legends of dragons and stories of magic but nothing about a black queen. Memory is, at best, a fragile thing and can become lost, distorted or reinvented.

Snapshots from the past can become postcards to the future, a visual means to unlocking memories which have been hidden for years. Collective memory is vital in the retelling of family stories across all generations.

It is all too easy for past family members to be forgotten, yet it only takes one snapshot or one well told anecdote to keep them alive in the present generation and for future generations. May I also point out that the original legends themselves are frequently historically inaccurate? Most mediaeval writers tended to impose features of their own current cultures and societies on a story that took place several centuries earlier- thus you will find stories of knights behaving in a very twelfth century manner, despite the Arthurian legend being nominally set in the fifth century, i.

In Malory, written in the fifteenth century and the text which most mainstream modern works take as their basis, there are obvious customs and positions which would have been completely out of place a thousand years before. Thus, if the versions of the legend on which our modern understanding of King Arthur is based are wildly inaccurate, how can we claim that Merlin is not in keeping with history, as we, in the tradition of our ancestors, are merely continuing to impose our own values on a well-known story?

The above relates to the tomato thing of course, as I would never claim for one minute that the idea of a black Guenevere is inaccurate.

Is she not living in an area which the Romans had only recently pulled out of? Did Arthur himself not fight in Rome and other far-flung territories? There are Middle Eastern knights kicking around in the legends, so why not a black queen?

Moreover, to reinforce the fact that even the initial legends are inaccurate, these knights are often portrayed as being Muslims, members of a religion which only really started to spread in the seventh century.

I realise that you were not opposed to the actress, but I hope you now understand that it is perfectly appropriate for her to have been black, and that Angel Coulby made a fanastic Guenevere, in my personal opinion, at least the best onscreen since Vanessa Redgrave. Why is Gwen in Merlin played by a black actress?