The black king is gone - anyone notice?

[DonCoquixote]

44. two side to this

One the one hand, some of the ways the "black King" was depicted were outright RACIST. We are talking the sort of depictions that were outright nasty. Those should not be missed:

However:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Magi

if we were to depict them as they were according to legend:

Melchior (/ˈmɛlkiˌɔr/;[13] also Melichior[14]), a Persian scholar;
Caspar (/ˈkæspər/ or /ˈkæspɑr/;[15] also Gaspar, Jaspar, Jaspas, Gathaspa,[14][16] and other variations), an Indian scholar;
Balthazar (/ˈbælθəˌzɑr/ or /bælˈθæzər/;[17] also Balthasar, Balthassar, and Bithisarea[14]), a Babylonian scholar.

So we have an Iranian, an Iraqi, and an Indian. The chances of any of these folk being blue-eyed whites is quite unlikely, though none of them are African. My point is that I would not want these folk "whitewashed" either, as they would not be.