If you had a time machine
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We are talking theoretical nonsense, which for the most part is like you say impossible. Maybe one day, maybe.
I think it would have to be the far future, talking 2000+ years. Hopefully by then mankind has evolved beyond what we are today, life is lived for mutual benefit. We have either been contacted by a benign alien civilisation or developed ourselves the means to enjoy FTL space travel. Or knowing my luck it would either be the Morlocks in charge or "Earth" would be an irradiated burned up husk.
IMHO it has to be forward travel not back as the risk of creating a paradox if you intend to reside permanently is too high. The prospect of getting burned at the stake also looms high (as already mentioned), but on a more mundane level no modern medicine if you fall ill, not even toothpaste or basic sanitation and no anaesthesia should you need any form of surgical procedure. No thank you!
IMHO it has to be forward travel not back as the risk of creating a paradox if you intend to reside permanently is too high. The prospect of getting burned at the stake also looms high (as already mentioned), but on a more mundane level no modern medicine if you fall ill, not even toothpaste or basic sanitation and no anaesthesia should you need any form of surgical procedure. No thank you!
"Here's how great it is to be white — I can get into a time machine and go to any time and it would be @£"&@& awesome when I get there! That is exclusively a white privilege! Black people can't &£@£&@ with time machines. A black guy in a time machine is like, 'Hey anything before 1980, no thank you, I don't wanna go.'"
— Louis C.K.
This is my vision of going back
— Louis C.K.
This is my vision of going back
That's only true for some times/places of the world. If, for example, you were to go back to the Roman empire it wouldn't matter. If you went back to, for example, the Mali empire then being "white" would be a definite disadvantage. In Norman England, a place famed for keeping records of everything, they cared so little about "race" that they didn't record it. We know that some people migrated from Africa to England in those days, but we don't know how many because nobody cared. There are references to people coming from various African ports and that's it. If you were a Christian and you weren't French, that was fine.
Thank you for that detailed history lesson