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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: The First Swedes
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:48:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mar 22, 2025 at 11:41:59 AM PDT, "BTR1701" <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

> State TV in Sweden (SVT) has produced a big budget series called HISTORY OF
> SWEDEN.
> 
> This is who the government wants its people to believe were are the first
> Swedes:
> 
> 
>
> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1903440799997796352/vid/avc1/1484x1080/zSkOkYQL6jojG3pq.mp4?tag=16

Sorry, accidentally hit 'send' too soon.

The SVT series "Historien om Sverige" doesn't just miss the mark—it
obliterates any semblance of historical credibility by casting black actors as
early Swedes, a decision so detached from reality it's laughable. There's not
a shred of archaeological, genetic, or historical evidence suggesting that
sub-Saharan Africans ever set foot in ancient Sweden, let alone ruled it. 

The early inhabitants of Sweden, dating back to the Bromme culture post-Ice
Age (around 12,000 BC) and through the Neolithic and Iron Ages, were
overwhelmingly of northern European descent-- hunter-gatherers, farmers, and
later Norse populations with light skin, varied eye colors, and genetics
tracing back to local European ancestry, not Africa. Genetic studies spanning
2,000 years (as detailed in ScienceDirect's research) show influences from the
eastern Baltic, British-Irish Isles, and southern Europe, but zero indication
of African migration or rulership in Scandinavia during these periods.

This isn't creative license; it's historical malpractice done in service to
pushing a modern political agenda. Portraying early Swedes as black is a
deliberate erasure of the region's actual past, trading fact for feel-good
fiction to appease contemporary diversity quotas.