People: “African people in Spain? But how! There’s like, a whole sea between them!”
(Spain in the foreground, Morocco in the background.)
For the curious, the distance here is just under 9 miles.
So yeah. There’s been travel here for as long as there has been rafts.
I love when people joke that you can fit all of Europe inside Texas, but cannot conceptualize that Northern Africa is right next to Europe and that people have been traveling since the dawn of people.
Black people in Shakespeare?!?!? That’s crazy. How would they have made it to Europe?!?!??
If mufuckas can walk to Central California from South America, a mufucka can walk and paddle their way from Africa to Northern Europe.
I mean, how the fuck do they think people got from Africa to Australia as much as 68,000 years ago (if not even further back)? Never mind the extensive evidence that the ocean was hardly the obstacle to prehistoric* peoples it was to medieval Europeans.