Of gettting all bent out of shape over the race of mythical creatures like mermaids and elves and dwarves?

Given how many Africans were tossed overboard in the Atlantic by slavers is it any wonder that mermaids are black?

And predated the Atlantic slave trade by 4600 years.

Babylonian, European, African, East Asian mermaids were all locally skin-toned.

Yes, mermaids were black. But not *all* mermaids were black. "There exists X in the set Y" is one thing; "All X are in the set Y" is quite another. It's highly unlikely that Homer's sirens were deemed black by those who read Greek when digammas were in widespread use.

I was just being a smart aleck, but sure I think you're right.

It depends on whose living room wall his portrait hangs.

…or much anything else that involves critical thought

...people of that time and place would have just thought something was really wrong with him.

Little Mermaid is much more consequential than Jeebus.