Spike Lee is an Idiot (But I repeat myself...)(vanity)

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[frankenMonkey]

Spike's Latest Tweet:

"The passing of Elizabeth Taylor brought back a Childhood memory of My late Mother lecturing me that the real Cleopatra didn't look like her."

[al baby]

[nerdwithagun]

Cleopatra was Greek and from what I saw on the history channel, a more “normal” looking woman as apposed to a sexbomb. A lot of black people seem to like to think ancient Egypt was a black civilization. It wasn't, it was middle eastern. It was also a wealthy and a hot spot for trade where there was some small level of ethnic diversity.
There were the Kush, a black civilization in Sudan that was probably just as advanced. And they both had periods where they were conquered by the other. We are talking about ethnic demographics from hundreds and hundreds of years ago

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"The passing of Elizabeth Taylor brought back a Childhood memory of My late Mother lecturing me that the real Cleopatra didn't look like her."

While this is true, Cleopatra didn't look like Spike Lee's mother either. I've never understood why African-Americans, nearly all of whom are descended from sub-Saharan Africans, think they have some reason to lay claim to the heritage of Egypt and other ancient North African civilizations.

Never mind Cleopatra, who was descended from Greeks - the much earlier pyramid builders also wouldn't have looked like Spike Lee's mom. Different area of a vast continent, different culture, different ethnicity - it'd be like someone from France laying claim to the heritage of some Chinese emperor because France and China happen to be on the same land-mass.

[OldDeckHand]

"A lot of black people seem to like to think ancient Egypt was a black civilization."

That's because (I think) most black people go to public schools. Public schools do a HORRIBLE job of teaching history that predates much before 1964, to say nothing of the history of the Mediterranean, North African, and Middle Eastern region. Public school teachers go just far enough back to explain that our Founding Father's were a "bunch of slave owning racists". That's where it stops.

I would wager that if you asked public high school seniors where Persia or Alexandria would be located today, less than 5% could give the right answers. And, I imagine less than that could actually point out Egypt and Iran on maps.

If you were to tell public high schoolers about a tribal people who are indigenous to Africa, I'd wager almost all of them would presume those tribal people were "black".

[Judges Gone Wild]

He sells victimology to American Blacks to keep them unhappy to enrich himself. Spike, Jackson, Sharpton etc

Exactly. He is a merchant of hate. He never learned to Do the Right Thing.

“Be careful to let no root of bitterness spring up among you, defiling many.”

Bitterness and covetousness are key Democrat Party planks. I liked him as Mars Blackmon in the Nike ads. That’s about it.

[Fiji Hill]

I always thought Cleopatra looked like her:

[sigzero]

Maybe Spike was just commenting how stupid his mother was?

[frankenMonkey]

The actual Cleopatra VII, from a contemporary marble bust.
But I like yours better...

[frankenMonkey]

You could be right.
I just jumped to the racial implications of his statements.

Perhaps this is a "teachable moment"...
Or not.

[hinckley buzzard]

This bit about Celeopatra being African is a remnant of an egregious and discredited leftwing academic "Theory" called "afrocentrism."

A group of undereducated misfits back in the seventies, probably, were misled by a couple of kook books which advanced the idea that Egypt was really black and so all its ancient grandeur was the rightful inheritance of the black race. They even went off the wall with stories about ancient airplanes and other wondrous but long lost inventions. They asserted that the ancient Greeks of the Classical Age really stole everything we now think of as Greek from black africans in Egypt.

Unfortunately some gullible blacks have been just ignorant enough to buy into it.

[Windflier]

Racism rots the mind and the soul of a person. Spike Lee is a bitter, ugly person.

[Retired Greyhound]

“He told me to go F myself”

Usually that’s a salutation in New York, but Spike may have meant it for real, especially if you’re white.

He also has Napoleon complex.

[VeniVidiVici]

Another idiot.

[chris_bdba]

Yep sometimes you just have to shake your head...Hey Spike take your own adviice and learn up on history!Greeks are white DUHHHH.

[NCC-1701]

“...He also has Napoleon complex....”

Napoleaon was white. Maybe that’s why Spike hates his lot in life being short. Being compared to a short, white European who, Spike would assume, was racist. Just a thought.

[Oztrich Boy]

1. Genghis Khan did not look much like John Wayne

2. But Liz is close enough to Cleo for Hollywood work