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2023-11-04 17:15:28 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 4D718513B10B18FF9056ED9828A22FD4647CEF8BED71BFA1570AEBA773CF396C
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Beehoven was a white european: https://blog.familytreedna.com/new-beethoven-study/ The lie of Beethoven being african has been popularized in america during the civil rights movement and even then it was meant as a metaphor: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/07/beethoven-was-black-why-the-radical-idea-still-has-power-today This is the only portrait of Beethoven from life: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Beethoven.jpg/747px-Beethoven.jpg?20191119194851
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