[frankenMonkey]

Somebody tell Spike that Cleo was a Greek...

[frankenMonkey]

Update from Spike:

"Tweeples, learn up on World History."

[lesko]

and his beloved Knicks aren’t doing all that well either

[agere_contra]

The Ptolemies were Greeks.

Cleopatra was white. Deal with it Spike.

[SharpRightTurn]

Sorry, Spikester: you’ll just have to sue your mother for giving you bad information.

Is she the source of your other hair-brained ideas, too?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Didn’t know Spike’s mama was that old that she got to meet Cleopatra in the flesh.

[Daveinyork]

Macedonian

[humblegunner]

Isn’t Twitter pretty much for idiots anyway?

[dfwgator]

Stupid parents lead to stupid kids.

[tumblindice]

” ... the real Cleopatra didn’t look like her.

An’ her las’ words was, `You-all can kiss my asp goodbye.”

[atc23]

Hey, SPIKEY! Back to school for you, moronic liberal jackwad.

Cleopatra was a Greek! House of Ptolemy. White European! (very likely) She CERTAINLY was not an African.

[rbbeachkid]

I think that Spike is like those blacks in Africa that captured fellow Africans to sell them into the slave trade.

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

[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.

[Fiji Hill]

I always thought Cleopatra looked like her:

[sigzero]

Maybe Spike was just commenting how stupid his mother was?

[Windflier]

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

[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.

[Oztrich Boy]

1. Genghis Khan did not look much like John Wayne

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