Wikipedia: Ham/Talk

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Yep, pretty appalling. But what should it be? Why cut it entirely without replacing it with at least something just as brief? --LMS (who won't, contrary to appearances, be at work today...)

cut: The descendends of Ham, living in northern Africa, are called Hamites.

: First, it's 'descendents' in English, but the sentence isn't worth revising.
: Second, this sentence was believed in Europe before some date, I suppose, but it's being presented as a fact.

Yep, pretty appalling. But what should it be? Why cut it entirely without replacing it with at least something just as brief? --LMS (who won't, contrary to appearances, be at work today...)