Racially charged? It's a freak'n MOVIE for God's sake.
Does this mean I can’t cast Denzel Washington as Hitler in my upcoming WWII epic?
She was a Macedonian Greek and was indeed white.
Macedonian, but no need to nit-pick, really.
Race is a complete boondoggle. It means nothing. It's just a stick used to beat white people.
I think that, at that time, the Egyptian royal family claimed some descent from Alexander... what ever that means.
There was a lot of Greek influence in ancient Egypt, although it was not reflected in the art and sculpture.
You are correct
she was descended from one of Alexander the Greats heirs known as Ptolemny (sp?). Most of Alexandrai was actually of Greek descent.
Let the LIBERALS have their race wars.
I’ll sit back and eat my popcorn.
Hey, maybe Michele could play the role of the BLACK woman.
LOL!!!!
Let the LIBERALS have their race wars.
I’ll sit back and eat my popcorn.
Hey, maybe Michele could play the role of the BLACK woman.
LOL!!!!
Yes, she was a member of the Greek Ptolemy dynasty.
This is too funny.
Yes. More Mediterranean though.
This seems to be a really stupid hang up with blacks in the U.S. whom were brought up with some myth that Egypt was inhabited with nothing but black-skinned people.
Reminder: Blacks in the U.S. are predominantly descended from WEST AFRICANS. Egyptians are not, nor have they ever been west Africans.
NOT GUILTY
Humm, was there a problem when Liz Taylor played Cleo?
“Wasn’t Cleopatra ethnically Greek, i.e., a white woman?”
What’s wrong with you? Why are you letting pesky facts get in the way of a good liberal rant?
“Egypt’s Alexandria-based rulers, including Cleopatra, were ethnically Greek, descended from Alexander the Great’s general Ptolemy I Soter.”
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/biography/cleopatra.html#ixzz0rDO1UDop
I don’t recall there being much controversy over Elizabeth Taylor depicting Cleopatra back in the 1960’s. But I guess our racial consciousness hadn’t been sufficiently elevated at the time, as this was many years before Jesse Jackson and others succeeded in spreading white guilt across the liberal elites.
Hollywood cast a black man to play a Norse god in the new Thor movie. What’s the problem here?
Yep. A member of the Ptolmaic ruling family of Egypt, descended from one of Alexander the Great’s generals.
Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek.
Maybe the Black community is mixing her up with Miss Cleo!
Yes, she was descended from Alexander’s general Ptolomey, who was Macedonian.