<i>The play says nothing about his race, one way or another</i><p>Act 1, Scene 1<p><i>Iago</i>: Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise!
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you.
Arise, I say!