Posted on 04/13/2023 5:20:19 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
Netflix announced on Wednesday that it would be releasing a documentary on the life of Cleopatra with one significant change, her ethnicity.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
“Cleopatra VII was white—of Macedonian descent, as were all of the Ptolemy rulers, who lived in Egypt,” Kathryn Bard, professor of archaeology and classical studies at Boston University, said, Newsweek reported.
First thing marxists do is erase and rewrite history, isn't it?
I guess they’re forced to ‘give back’ a good chunk of their operating profits for this crap...since they know no one will bother watching it.
Are they going to cast “Lizzo” to play her?
Wasn’t she of Macedonian, Greek, and Persian ancestry? You would think black people would get tired of being lied to by Marxists.
We know who her father was,” Gerald Kadish, teaching professor emeritus of history and Near Eastern studies at Binghamton University, said, the outlet reported. “He was certainly not Black. None of her siblings [were] anything but Greco-Macedonian.”
From her statue and likeness on coins, it appears she was not a black African.
Well why not? Someone wrote a whole Broadway musical depicting Hamilton as black.
Hey! I saw “The Ten Commandments”, and the Pharoah and the queen were both white!
But they did have Edward G. Robinson playing the Overseer, so there’s that...
“Where’s your Messiah noooowww...nyah, nyah, nyah!”
Glad I gave up my Netflix account years ago.
Refuse to support this bastardization of history.
i am pitching the studio of my biopic on harriett tubmann with reese witherspoon playing the lead role...
reese will be leading the enslaved to freedom.
witherspoon?
no, she will be armed with her shotgun.
And recently there was a mini-series with Queen Anne Boleyn as black.
Anybody who watches this crap is a low IQ fool.
Naaa, I would expect an established star with at least one Oscar nomination. Whoopee Goldberg?
Or maybe a public figger with audience appeal. Stacy Abrams?
Or even a non actor known for her beauty and intelligence. Maxine Waters?
Coulda fooled me. I always thought that ze was a Black-Lesbian- Transexual-Nonbinary hipster from Muskogee, Oklahoma USA.
The communist memory manipulators are working overtime, and the real problem is that no one is able to stop them. This KooKery won't even be mentioned in polite, political conservative circles for fear of being called names.
Should we call it, “black washing” of history?
I thought Cleo looked like Liz Taylor and Marc Antony looked like Richard Burton?
What is this s__t?
When does MLK, Jr. get played by a white guy...?
Are the Obamas still big poobahs there at Netflix?
When they came on board, we dumped Netflix.
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