Wokeism took down twitter, it will take down Netflix.
I thought cultural appropriation was “violence.”
I guess that, like so many rules, it doesn’t apply to blacks.
Cleopatra was not even Egyptian.
She was direct descendent of Ptolemaius Soter, one of the Alexander’s general.
From Macedonia, north of Greece.
The Egyptians are not going to let this go without a fight. They have deeply ingrained ideas about each and every ethnicity, including blacks, asians and without question, jews. They don’t care who knows it.
So glad Egypt is trashing Netflix.
i hear they are doing a remake of Shaft with Jason Statham
gonna be awesome
I remember a production of ‘How Green Was My Valley”, a story about a Welch coal mining community, that featured Cicely Tyson in the lead female part. Too stupid to imagine. That lasted only a short time.
Cleopatra was Hellenistic Greek—therefore white!!!!
These days anyone can be any thing, cleo was greek
But Cleopatra was Greek. In modern terms a European colonialist.
But the Netfix version is consistent with African American folklore of the 20th century. It's almost like a religious doctrine among many African Americans.
And African Americans are the target audience, not Egyptians.
And the Liz Taylor version wasn't all that historically accurate either.
Well, maybe she was not black. But I’ll bet she was trans!
Obviously the Left agrees with ‘cultural appropriation’ when it suits them.
Uh Oh.
Egypt done bitch-slapped the wokers.
I read this book a couple of years ago - Not Out of Africa:
“In this short book, Wellesley College Professor Mary Lefkowitz explodes the Afrocentric myths perpetrated in her field. Interestingly, Lefkowitz accepts the assertion that ancient Egyptians were black without question. The validity of this assertion, however, is questionable at best. A substantial body of surviving ancient Egyptian artwork appears to depict Egyptians with negroid features. At the same time, modern Egyptians are caucasian, with the swarthy features typical of the semitic peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean. Egypt’s ruling class was deposed several times over its long history by invaders from abroad. However, I know of no record of any event that could have resulted in the wholesale displacement of the country’s entire population, and it is unlikely that such a dramatic event could have taken place without during historical times without leaving a record.
Lefkowitz proceeds to demolish the claim of the Afrocentrists that every achievement known to history as Greek actually originated with the Egyptians. There is just enough actual historical evidence of a link between Greek scholars and Egypt to enable these claims to avoid being dismissed with nothing more than a smirk. The Classical Greeks admired the great antiquity and undeniable achievements of Egyptian culture, and sometimes sought to connect themselves to it. Later, after the rise of the Helenistic Age when Greek learning dominated the Mediterranean world, Egyptians sometimes claimed that famous Greek scholars such as Plato and Aristotle had studied in Egypt, and Greek historians dutifully recorded these claims. Twentieth Century Afrocentrists then took the ball and ran with it, making all sorts of outlandish arguments for the primacy of Africa in the process. By comparing the actual content of Egyptian and Greek writings and examining the known chronology of relevant events - in other words, by doing what responsible historians do - Lefkowitz shows that the myth of a “stolen legacy” is nothing more than that - a myth.
On one hand, nothing Lefkowitz says is surprising. The facts she cites are well established and in most cases have been known for centuries. On the other, the dominant culture in universities today favors the claims of Afrocentrists and others like them, no matter how outlandish those claims may be. Leftkowitz deserves credit for standing up for the truth on a controversial subject and seeking to maintain standards in her field of study.”
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48292
There are several paintings in Tutankhamun’s tomb of him slaughtering Nubians. They have the sloped forehead, big lips, elongated bodies and are very VERY BLACK.
Obviously the artist was a “dirty rat dog racist”.
Yet no matter how they try to recolor her, Cleopatra was not black but of Greek. Any ancient history has her genealogy in it.
Netflix is producing disinformation.
