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JimBeamMeUp posted...

Fair. Pedantic, but fair. Of course once you're that far back we're already taking a ton of liberties with the story the storytelling since once you go much further back than Shakespeare a modern English speaker an English speaker from the era you're traveling to have about as much in common as we do with a Klingon linguistically and it only gets worse the further back you go.

True, but that's a problem for literally everyone, not just blacks.

A white person of is still going to be incredibly lost and barely able to communicate in any meaningful way even if they travel back to England, if they go back more than a few hundred years. You're never going to be able to blend in perfectly just because you kind of look like everyone else (even just having an odd accent might get you accused of being a foreign spy and killed).

The only people who kind of sidestep this would be if you were Han Chinese and traveling back into China's past, but even there you're still dealing with some linguistic drift and cultural idioms that are going to make it difficult to communicate and which are going to make locals extremely suspicious of how weird you're being.