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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8997781" data-attributes="member: 1125">that picture is of a Circassian Beauty who, ironically, were paraded by PT Barnum as examples of “Caucasian“ beauty and are the reason the term Caucasian was coopted to refer to the “White Race”. My observation was tongue-in-check and more incredulous than mocking but I do contend that you’d be hardpressed to find the Afro hairstyle amongst authentic Black Cowboys of that era. Even in Africa the afro was usually seen as typifying American identity rather than being a naturalistic style for afro-textured hair.&nbsp; In other words using a character with an afro is calling on 70s iconography to mark Black inclusion rather than a natural depiction of a black cowboy. Eg Nat “Deadwood Dick” Love who came to prominence in the 1870s[ATTACH=full]282479[/ATTACH]The bigger issue for me is the bare chested native american in the image, not to mention the four dead white guys after the ride-by shooting (albeit the corpse at the back might not be european<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8997781, member: 1125"] that picture is of a Circassian Beauty who, ironically, were paraded by PT Barnum as examples of “Caucasian“ beauty and are the reason the term Caucasian was coopted to refer to the “White Race”. My observation was tongue-in-check and more incredulous than mocking but I do contend that you’d be hardpressed to find the Afro hairstyle amongst authentic Black Cowboys of that era. Even in Africa the afro was usually seen as typifying American identity rather than being a naturalistic style for afro-textured hair. In other words using a character with an afro is calling on 70s iconography to mark Black inclusion rather than a natural depiction of a black cowboy. Eg Nat “Deadwood Dick” Love who came to prominence in the 1870s[ATTACH type="full"]282479[/ATTACH] The bigger issue for me is the bare chested native american in the image, not to mention the four dead white guys after the ride-by shooting (albeit the corpse at the back might not be european:)) [/QUOTE]

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