[steve8714]

The Ptolemies were Greek, were they not?

[Secret Agent Man]

Yes, they were not blacks. Past and current egyptians are were/are not black, either.

Time to get some proper history lessons to the blacks in our pwn country.

[DJ MacWoW]

Yup. Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek.

[Pan_Yan]

Macedonian. But don’t confuse them with facts. It upsets their fake outrage.

[OldDeckHand]

"The Ptolemies were Greek, were they not?"

Macedonian. Close enough.

[Salamander]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty

[JimSEA]

Yep, Cleo was definitely Greek. However history is being rewritten
as we speak, so as to say. It is PC that all the accomplishments
of Egypt were by the Black Pharaohs. 150 years the then PC idea was
that Angkor Wat was built by a lost Roman legion. Times and prejudices
change but stupidity remain constant.

[achilles2000]

Yes, of course, they were Greek, and the Egyptians who were ruled by the Ptolemies weren’t black either. They are generally a semitic people.

There is some black influence on demographics from regions up the Nile, but it is not large.
There was also a brief period in which it is believed that blacks ruled part of Egypt when Egypt was in disarray, but it was a long time before Cleopatra and didn’t last long (Egypt has an enormously long history).

Let me be the first, however, to point out that Cleopatra Jones wasn’t white. Consequently, I would have to object to Jolie being cast as that Cleopatra ;-)

[xkaydet65]

Macedonian actually. Light haired and fair skinned in their original environment.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes Cleopatra was a Greek, and these ignorant morons who want her to be Black are too stupid to figure it out. They are the same mental defectives who believe the ancient Egyptians flew airplanes and used ESP.

Race whores need to get a life--and a real job, like cleaning public toilets--that correlates with their intelligence.

[infowarrior]

The Ptolemies were Greek, were they not?

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

the infowarrior

[dangus]

“Though Cleopatra bore the ancient Egyptian title of pharaoh, the Ptolemaic dynasty was Hellenistic, having been founded 300 years before by Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general of Alexander the Great.”

[Jimmy Valentine]

Ptolomy I was a Macedonian and was half brother to Alexander the Great.He probably looked like your average Northern Greek of today.

The Ptolomaic line was also saguine and inbred.

Cleopatra definitely did not look like a nubian. In fact, one of the traditional enemies of Egypt as portrayed on their temples was Nubia.