Why some Egyptians are fuming over Netflix's Black Cleopatra

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/netflix-cleopatra-black-egypt-controversy-ancient-queen/

Looks to me like blacks are culture appropriating. We even have a thread on this forum that claims Israel was once predominantly black and that Jesus may have been black. Why must blacks be tied to everything as some want to push? Cleopatra was not black, nor was Jesus. But hey it’s the way of the liberals to denote every achievement as a black achievement when it was not. This so called documentary is obviously about fictions rather than real life facts. Something the woke crowd seems to not care about.

 

Heaven forbid that black folk try to reclaim AFRIKAN history.

Btw, cleopatras maternal lineage is vague and relatively unknown. Therefore it would be speculation to suggest she was not black given America's one drop rule that they and yourself still subscribe to.

You can't have your cake and eat it buddy.

 

Also, the ancient Celts (Brits of west coast UK/Ireland) were black, so too the ancient Chinese/Japanese, so too the Sumerians, so too the dravidians and so too the Polynesians.....what's left? the Europeans, well guess what?


Dress warm, I heard Alaska is cold.

 

I can understand the Egptions being upset however...she really wasn't the civilian regular Egyption but Macedonian Greek....

I get " put out" that race and erasing the historically accurate race is so important to some artists and film makers. It comes mostly from racial hatred imo. That said....I really enjoyed Hamilton the Musical....as the acting and music was great and narrative historically on point. White characters wouldn't have made it better.

I like that people don't have to be excluded from playing a character because that person was a different heritage.

 

The celts and japanese/chinese were not black

Your repeating revisionist cartoon fiction

 

No ome subscribes to any such one drop rule and her lineage both paternal and magternal are well documented.

She was not black

Africa is not a homogenous place or culture

 

she was half Greek and Greeks of antiquity were a mix of Mediterranean and African since Ptolemaic Egypt was a cross between AFRIKAN and Mediterranean culture. I had a girlfriend that was Greek, she was fascinated with Egypt, she also had tight curly hair, white looking but you could see she had African DNA because of her hair. Cleo's other half is unknown. The only reason contemporary Egyptians are getting their knickers in a twist is because they are racists. It's in their genes, Arabs think they're superior to black folk.

When it comes to blatant racism, the only ppl that compete with white Europeans are the Arabs, that's a demonstrable fact.

 

None of your information is accurate.

 

Looks to me like whiners looking for **** to whine about.

 

None of your comments are accurate.

 

Actually her race is the subject of debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_race_controversy

 

Far more accurate than that fairy tale that you're pushing.

 

when you learn to spell correctly and thus have a proper command of English, then you can quote me. Until that day, take a back seat.

 

Your write

 

IMO, Cleo was brown.....

 

No matter how black you wish Queen Cleopatra was.... She wasn't.

 

Multiple historians have called her as not being African. But it doesn’t surprise me you’re okay with culture appropriation

 

Yeah yeah… everyone was black. Yet they couldn’t make it out of stick huts without European help.

 

Grate!

 

technically she was afrikan since she was born in Africa so yeah....lol

 

right, so we're playing silly racial stereotypes now...here's me thinking this could actually be an intellectual debate considering the topic. More the fool me.

 

Maybe you should let those historians in the article know that they are wrong

 

So blacks in America are as native as native Americans?

 

Blacks in America are American, yes.

 

You know what, you can tell Zahi Hawass to take his ethnocentric opinion and shove it. That guy has a small mind.