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2024-02-06 07:25:20 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C9E3D71BAA6A88274F6FFE37B58A933F9757A39EF00BE9E12524D744618E64EA
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This is an Afrocentric hoax/conspiracy theory. Speculative anecdotes about Beethoven's appearance are unsourced and deemed racist by many academics. https://www.ualberta.ca/folio/2020/07/commentary--was-beethoven-black-a-twitter-meme-reveals-more-about-race-and-music-than-the-composers-origins.html DNA definitively debunked any close ancestors being black. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/health/beethoven-death-dna-hair.html And the music in this post is a remix of Mozart, not Beethoven.
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