SJWs Outraged White Actress Will Play African Queen Cleopatra (RUH ROH!)

pjmedia.com ^ | 1/15/2019 | Tyler O'Neil

[rktman]

On Sunday, Britain's Daily Star reported that Lady Gaga and Angelina Jolie — two white actresses — are competing for the role of Cleopatra, sparking outrage across social media. Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) demanded that the African queen should be played by a woman of color, even though the historical Cleopatra was Greek, not black.

"Stop whitewashing Cleopatra!!!" tweeted Kendra James, a writer and editor at Shondaland.com. "Film the story of literally any other queen on the vast African continent."

[rktman]

LOL! All lady gag-me or frangelina have to do is say they self ID as AAs. Done deal. Is follywood going to go back to the one with Liz Taylor and "colorize" it?

[Mount Athos]

The real Cleopatra’s lineage was from Macedonia (greece).

Guess that probably wasn’t mentioned in article or discussion

[aMorePerfectUnion]

James Bond, black? No problem!

[babble-on]

Gaga’s not white, she’s Italian.

[Red Badger]

Cleopatra was white. Greek.........................

[teevolt]

I think Cleopatra was Greek, if being technically correct is important.

[puppypusher]

Either one of those woman would be a person of color.What is the matter with those racist airheads?

[Olog-hai]

Marvel gave us a black Nick Fury after decades of the white Sergeant/Colonel Fury in the comic books. So how are they going to fix that one for us?

[teeman8r]

even the arguments are being whitewashed... it’s all greek to me.

[BuffaloJack]

Cleopatra was not African. She was Macedonian Greek and a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a general in the army of Alexander the Great. She would probably have looked Mediterranean, like most Greeks today.

[Red Badger]

African queen? She was a Greek!

See what happens when liberals teach history?

Total ignoramuses.......................................

[OttawaFreeper]

Were they also upset with this movie?

[grania]

The dynasty Cleopatra was part of was Macedonian Greek. That pesky history keeps getting in the way of the maniacs’ narrative.

[rktman]

Actually it was mentioned pretty early in the article so.....

[circlecity]

Wasn’t Cleopatra a Greek? A descendant of the Greek General Ptolemy?

[COBOL2Java]

[rktman]

And probably lgbtqxyzp as well. Fleming spinning in his grave.

[Old Yeller]

Rachel Dolenz can play her. Then its all good.

[rktman]

Racis’.......

[Mears]

She was gorgeous.

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