[DoughtyOne]

Funny, I didn’t hear any comments about Will Smith playing
James West in the Wild Wild West movie.

Hmmm, what race what Bob Conrad again?

[pepsi_junkie]

The real point is that even if you buy that the ancient Egyptians were black (Something their own artwork refutes), Alexander the Great conquered Egypt and installed his own General as the new Pharoh. This started the Ptolemaic dynasty, which was Greeks ruling Egypt. That ended when Cleopatra died.

she was indisputably white.

[mass55th]

"Funny, I didn’t hear any comments about Will Smith playing James West in the Wild Wild West movie."

Or when Zoe Saldana and Patrick J. Adams, portrayed a bi-racial couple (Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse) in the 2014 "Rosemary's Baby" mini series.

Or Thomas Mann and Kiersey Clemons also playing a bi-racial couple of Jim Dear and Darling in the remake of "Lady and the Tramp," which takes place in the year "1910."

[wildcard_redneck]

Cleopatra was a Greek. She was a member of the Ptolemaic Dynasty which was founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals named Ptolemy after Alexander and his greek army conquered Egypt.

Sad to see that leftists and black supremacists are too stupid to know that. You would think that education would be better in Wakanda with all that technology and vibranium metal export revenue. /sarc

[Redmen4ever]

Cleopatra was the last ruler of Ptolemaic or Hellenistic Egypt (305 BC to 30 BC).

Ptolemaic refer to Ptolemy I, an associate of Alexander the Great. The first ruler of this dynasty. He moved the capital to Alexandria, a city founded by Alexander the Great.

From 30 BC to 641 AD, Egypt was ruled by Rome or the Byzantine Empire. Then, Egypt was ruled for hundreds of years by a series of Arab and Turkic rulers. Only in the recent two hundred or so years, did Egypt gains its independence from the Ottoman Empire and European influence.

The idea that Cleopatra should be Arab is displaced by 671 years. The idea that she should be “African” is completely wild, an Afrocentric fantasy that ancient Egypt was black or sub-Sahara Africa, instead of being distinctly Egyptian.

As for Gadot, she is an Ashkenazi Jew, meaning part of the Jewish people who migrated to Germanic and Slavic Europe from the Middle East. The largest number of these people today live in the U.S., and the second largest number today live in Israel.

I myself would have no problem with almost any actress playing Cleopatra as long as she were beautiful. North African, Arab, Mediterranean, Northern European, South Asian or Central Asian. A sub-Saharan African or an East Asian would be a stretch, but I wouldn’t completely rule it out.

Yul Brynner, a Russian-American with some Mongol blood, made a magnificent Pharaoh (and with his exotic looks, he could play almost any part). Elizabeth Taylor made up in beauty any lack of ethnic authenticity in her portrayal of Cleopatra. A great actor or actress can project.

[SkyPilot]

European and White American history, art, music, and culture has been in the midst of a genocide for a number of years.

The genocide of Europeans Americans of European descent is next.

[Jewbacca]

Heck they have blacks playing Brit royals now (deep in the past).

Israelis are Mediterranean people. We look pretty much like everyone else along all the coasts.

This selective outrage goes to one way

[A_Former_Democrat]

Who should play Hamilton

[ThunderSleeps]

Exactly. When they want a woman to play a man, or vice-versa, or insert gay characters, etc. it is considered "bold" and "groundbreaking"... But try to cast someone that doesn't reinforce their agenda and they'll find something to bi*ch about.

Personally I think Ms. Gadot is a fine actress and a beautiful woman. I wouldn't mind seeing her in any role. ;-)

[tbw2]

Liberals have reverted to a tiered moral system. We have to oppress whites and appropriate their culture to “make” it equal. Because liberals have the power to say and then institute policies that oppress said “privileged” people.