What I learned today: Beethoven was black.

Or at least mixed...

http://uncle-baconface.tumblr.com/post/97202338422/im-confused-about-what-beethoven-was-doing-in-the

Thank you, Tumblr, for helping me learn things and for providing another example in an already long list of history being whitewashed.

I would just post the comments but, alas, I don't know how. Sorry.