Posted on 06/18/2010 7:21:52 AM PDT by chesley
“Ignorance used to be something people tried to hide, not put out there for everybody to see.”
But ignorance is the highest form of flattery!
Chesley, Hush, you are stating the historically accurate fact that is politically incorrect these days. PC demands that everyone believe that the Greek Egyptian queen was black.
Likewise, Hannibal would not have been black either, just because he was from Africa. He was from North Africa and was of Semitic descent. This does not stop present-day blacks from claiming that Hannibal and later, Cleopatra were black.
This reminds me of when American blacks went to Somalia and tried to get a “my black brother” thing going with the locals. Turns out the locals didn’t consider themselves black and didn’t like being called black.
“I see from the article that they are ‘no longer taking comments’. I’ll bet there were some doozies.”
There were! I’m surprised Essence kept the article up...they really took a shellacking.
“Yep, pure blooded descendant of Ptolemy, one of Alexander’s generals.”
Not true, for some reason they don’t know who Cleopatra’s mother was. She had a half sister whose mother was Ethiopian.
Cleopatra was a Ptolomy of Macedonian decent from the “Caucusues” and thus a Caucasian.
There are some scholars who say that Ptolemy was the illegitimate son of Philip II of Macedon through his concubine, Arsinoe. Macedonians regarded Ptolemy as Philip’s son. So Cleopatra, whose father was a Ptolemy descendant, was Macedonian/Greek and definitely not black.
The problem is people saw Cleopatra and none of them described her a Black or even resembling Black people.
BTW, Ethiopia back then was not the same as now and even now they don’t claim to be Black.
The fact is that Cleopatra was not Black period.
It’s a sad day when a thread about Angelina Jolie takes 42 posts to finally get to a picture. What is happening with this world????
“Was there a problem when Liz Taylor played Cleopatra?”
Not if you consider the 7th Fleet being seen at anchor through the Arch of Hadrian when she arrives in Rome being historically accurate, no. - Roman Soldiers Don’t Wear Wrist Watches
If that be true then black people owe reparations to the Jews who built the pyramids! Mazel Tov!
You mean the Romans didn’t wear wrist sundials? ;-)
Yes, the ptolemys were of Greek descent.
But in Hollywood, ignorance is bliss, and they are all extremely happy. Or gay.
But Cleopatra, as a daughter of the Ptolemies, inheritors of Egypt after the Macedonian conquest under Alexander the great; was most certainly not of African descent.
Heimdall black? He was described as “golden”, although that might have just been his teeth and the gilding of his equipment. He was also called “the father of all men” because among his children were slaves, freemen, and nobles. Does that make him African American? LOL!
She probably had a little black in her but it was not blood. LOL Like history of the World part II “Can we fit him in?”
So pure that in some cases the parents were brother and sister. I don't see much racial mixing between the Ptolemy and the Egyptian bloodlines (not that the other Egyptians were black) either.
I don’t remember any of this garbage when Liz Taylor played Cleopatra. The race thing is getting ridiculously out of control.
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