Race row erupts over casting of Angelina Jolie as Cleopatra

dailymail.co.uk ^ | June 17, 2010 | Sophie Forbes

[jocon307]

“...Jolie just has that something. That Cleopatra-esque “essence” if you will.”

Yes, actually I think you’re right, she could be very good in that part.

[JoeProBono]

[Hoodat]

I'll see your Cleopatra Jones, and raise you a Pam Grier

[txhurl]

Well, here's a Mark who could play Marc:

[Scotswife]

Love him!

I liked him back when he was Marky Mark.

[submarinerswife]

Cleo was GREEK.

Dumbass, race baiters.

[Trillian]

Jolie adopted her daughter Zahara,5, from Ethiopia and gave birth to Shiloh,3, in Namibia. She also has 3 other children with partner, Brad Pitt. Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2.

She doesn’t know that Cleopatra was Greek and she can’t count either LOL.

[PzLdr]

Cleopatra was the last of the Ptolemy family to rule Egypt. The dynasty was founded by one of Alexander the Great’s generals - Macedonian from northeast Greek.

The Ptolemids, like many Pharonic dynasties before them practiced familial intermarriage [incest]. Cleopatra was, in fact, married to her younger brother, until his death at the hands of the Romans.

Perhaps our outraged African Americans could read a little history. Wonder how outraged they were when a black actor was chosen to play the Norse god who put the blonde and blue eyes in ‘Viking’ in the upcoming movie, “Thor”.

[dr_who]

They should roll her up in the carpet and dry clean the carpet.

[dr_who]

Dang, look at them ears.

[OldDeckHand]

"I liked him back when he was Marky Mark."

You might want to keep that to yourself. I'm not going to hold it against you, but I can't guarantee others won't.

[paudio]

Even the current Egyptians are not black.

[Oztrich Boy]

Race row erupts over casting of Angelina Jolie as Cleopatra

What's problem? She looks close enough to pass for Greek to me.

[Talisker]

Where does this Egyptian=black thing come from? Modern day Egyptians aren’t black.

Yeah, but they get to play blacks in the White House.

[Vendome]

You mean.... like Arabs? /s

[Vendome]

Oooops.... I dribbled some Diet Coke on my keyboard. LOL

[pankot]

Don’t ever tell a Macedonian they are Greek. They’ll cut you.

[James C. Bennett]

They were Arabs?

[infowarrior]

The Ptolemies were Greek, were they not?

They were, the original Ptolemy was a general in Alexander's army...

the infowarrior

[nutmeg]

ROTFL!!