Posted on 06/18/2010 4:13:24 AM PDT by C19fan
She hasn't even been officially confirmed as having the role, but Angelina Jolie is already receiving criticism over her possible portrayal of the legendary Queen of the Nile. Jolie, who turned 35 last week, is caught up in a racially charged debate over whether the role should of been played by a black woman. The Egyptian royal was most famously portrayed Elizabeth Taylor in 1963.
The new film's producer, Scott Rudin, previously told USA Today the role is being developed with Angelina in mind as she has 'the perfect look'.
But this statement has angered members of the African American community. An Essence Magazine online story asks, 'Another White Actress to Play Cleopatra?'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
"White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "White" or report entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish."
Now where is Egypt again?
If she had immigrated to our shores, we would count Cleopatra as....
common error
this is not a dream
the idiots really are in charge
That ruined my day.
Your work is done here.
Change the category to "European-American" and it is more realistic.
cartoonistx ~ Make her a South Korean-born, Israeli Jewess as well and you'd have a trifecta of piss! The whole world's racist urinal would back up and explode!
Can we work in a wheelchair?
agere_contra ~ A horrifying thought, LOL!
I suppose she could butt in...
I’ve been to voilà voilà washington. Does that count?
He said the funniest part of the trip though was walking through the bazaars. The peddlers there would call out "American Nubian! American Nubian!" He realized he was just another sucker.
Why worry about this? The entire AA community in ruins and they worry about THIS. It’s ridiculous.
Me worry nah.. Jsut laughing at people making fools of themselves.
I really get annoyed when race issues are raised by blacks that have nothing to do with anything significant to life in general. This will be read and people move on to make something of themselves.....those who are making issue of hollywood roll playing should do likewise and focus on ‘reality’ rather than the playground fantasy world of hollywood.
Ridiculous Essence to make issue of this, which shows they have little to complain about if this is the best they can do.
Kind of scary that they don't realize it's FRENCH, hey?
Yes, but she had a great asp...
True that. But our government has little interest in, nor awareness of reality.
Titus Pullo rejoices!
With the advent of the Internet and things called "Search Engines", all of that false history taught in various "black studies" classes are easily debunked with just a few phrases typed on a keyboard and hitting "Enter".
Before this, we would have to go to the library and basically waste time finding books, doing research, etc. to debunk this foolishness. That is what these "black studies" classes and teachers banked on -- folks such as ourselves who know that this is all foolishness would be too busy with our lives to prove what they are saying is total BS.
That tactic may have worked back then, but that dog just doesn't hunt anymore in the 21st century.
It's all about race, gender, class.
Besides, I understand that Cleopatra was a healthy, curvaceous woman.
Stupid morons. Cleopatra was Greek-Macedonian of the Ptolemies line not some black chick.
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