"Thanks to a circulated screenshot from the website The Concordian, Twitter has been abuzz since Wednesday night with the idea that classical German composer and pianist Ludwig van Beethoven was actually a black man. So now it totally makes sense why “Symphony No. 5” bangs so hard.

The Concordian article dates back to 2015, and it states that the genius composer of the Romantic Period of music (most prominent in Europe around the 1800s) was the son of Johann Van, a white German man, and Maria Magdalena Keverich, a likely Moorish woman. The Moorish people were dark-skinned Muslims who took ownership of what was then the Spanish Netherlands for around 700 years, and Beethoven’s mother was born in and resided within Moorish territory."

https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/twitter-is-in-a-frenzy-over-resurfaced-article-about-be-1844079249?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2020-06-19