Race row erupts over casting of Angelina Jolie as Cleopatra

Daily Mail ^ | June 17, 2010 | Sophie Forbes

[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?'

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Here's the official census definition:

"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....

[null and void]

you confuse facts with politics

common error

this is not a dream

the idiots really are in charge

That ruined my day.

Your work is done here.

[Clemenza]

Only Europeans should be counted as white. I once lived in an Arab neighborhood, and most did NOT consider themselves "white." WTF do we count ALL Latin Americans as "non-white anyway?

Change the category to "European-American" and it is more realistic.

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Erik Latranyi ~ If I could decide, I would hire a Korean actress just to piss them off

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?

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seemoAR ~ I wonder if Michelle O would play the role

agere_contra ~ A horrifying thought, LOL!

I suppose she could butt in...

[null and void]

I’ve been to voilà voilà washington. Does that count?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

A black friend of mine got interested in the whole "Black Egyptian" thing about ten years back and actually went on a tour with the leading theorist, Dr. Yosef A.A. Ben-jochannan. They were shown all the evidence and my friend quickly came to the conclusion that it was all BS. Part of the theory is that the reason the noses were broken off the statues was to cover up that they were black noses, but when my friend pointed out that even the later Roman period statues of Romans also had their noses broken off, the guy just kinda shrugged.

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.

[Niuhuru]

Why worry about this? The entire AA community in ruins and they worry about THIS. It’s ridiculous.

[C19fan]

Me worry nah.. Jsut laughing at people making fools of themselves.

[caww]

That statue bust looks like Cher.

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.

[hennie pennie]

Besides which, it should be spelled waH laH ...... LOLOLOL; that one's never bothered me, and I guess because the very first time I saw it online, I thought that it was supposed to be a joke. Evidentally NOT.

Kind of scary that they don't realize it's FRENCH, hey?

[Snardius]

The real Cleo (as represented on a coin from her time) was a supremely ugly woman.

Yes, but she had a great asp...

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Change the category to "European-American" and it is more realistic.

True that. But our government has little interest in, nor awareness of reality.

[Theophilus]

Titus Pullo rejoices!

[PallMal]

I remember the most virulent conversation I got into with a black (and very conscious of it) coworker when I pointed out that Cleopatra was a Ptolemy. He got very angry.

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.

[El Sordo]

Race, gender, class.

It's all about race, gender, class.

Besides, I understand that Cleopatra was a healthy, curvaceous woman.

[apro]

Stupid morons. Cleopatra was Greek-Macedonian of the Ptolemies line not some black chick.

[SunkenCiv]

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