“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.
It existed, but such race baiting black supremacists who said things like white people (white devils) were an African science experiment gone wrong were rightly ignored.
Over the next 25 years, they got departments at our universities to spread their hate in "sociology" courses.
Probably true but I'd bet that the black population in America was just as peeved as with this new casting choice. The fact is that in the early sixties there were absolutely no nationwide (or powerful local) outlets for the collective black voice. I suspect that it is this restricted access to public media that is at the root of the perceived absence of discontent.