interesting story about my great aunt

she lives in the middle of the country between cows and fields. literally 100% of the people living there, she included, are white.

she also lives in a house that used to be part of a medieval castle and in the attic there is this HUGE amazingly well conserved medieval painting, directly on the ceiling. it’s beautiful.

so obviously there are often history professors and archeologists coming there to study it, and they always take time to show her everything they discovered, share their theories, etc… she likes it a lot and if you ask her she will absolutely give you an hour long class about the painting.

the thing is : one of biggest panel is a princess kneeling in front of a knight that probably just saved her from a mortal peril or something. and the princess ? she definitely is black.

so my great aunt told us that there are always some people who tries to explain it’s because the pigments changed overtime and that the princess is super white™ actually. she aint buying it. she says that the rest of the pigments is in great condition, so why not her skin ? the knight is white and his skin is still super white. and she knows that some knights went in africa so they must have met black people that they decided to paint

the point of this story ?

1) my great aunt is over 75, white, lives in an exclusively white neighbourhood and still doesnt buy racism. dont excuse people’s behaviour and believes based on age or location.

2) beautiful black princesses were a thing and they also had fairy tail romances that people decided to paint.

thanks for your time *mic drop*