Helen wasn't even human. She was born from an egg, laid by Leda (yeah, her husband was sort of greek-ish - there was no such thing as Greek at the time). Who knows where Leda came from and what skin colour she might have had?

Helen was fathered by Zeus - do you believe in Zeus? I don't, but if you do, why would his beautiful daughter not be black?

Because you're a racist

You do know that Homer is myth, as in fiction? Or maybe you don't?

Yes, Homer (if he existed) wrote the founding myths of greekness. The Iliad and Odyssey are both very composed works of literature, meaning someone edited/wrote/redacted them, and one may as well call that person Homer.

But it's myth. It's not fact or history so what anyone looked like is totally up for grabs.

You are a racist.

How can you possibly not have a mix of peoples in a Mediterranean story from antiquity?

As a Greek woman, this hurts me deeply, but who cares about little Greece anyway? Big Hollywood has its own rules and doesn’t give a damn about little Greece and its millennia-old history and literature. Most people can’t really understand or even begin to feel much of what’s written there.
And that’s why I don’t even expect anyone here to understand this now.

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I’m afraid I completely disagree with you here, and this has nothing to do with racism.
It’s wrong to generalize.
I think the casting of whoever it is is incredibly unfortunate in this film adaptation, just like in the ones before it.

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