[Riverman94610]

I'm constantly butting heads with the Afrocentrists at work on the Black Cleopatra issue.They even put out a T-Shirt saying"Cleopatra,a Beautiful Black Woman"
I said what y'all need to do is rep Queen Ty,Tut's momma, on a T-shirt.She WAS black.
Sort of reminds me of Maxine Waters.

[Verginius Rufus]

I read something a while back by a classics professor who is black...she believes Cleopatra is black despite the lack of evidence because her grandmother told her that was true.

Some, but not all, ancient Egyptians would qualify as "black" as the term is used in modern America, but there is no definite evidence that Cleopatra had any Egyptian ancestors...there was an awful lot of inbreeding in the Ptolemaic dyansty (brother-sister marriages imitating the native Egyptian practice).

Then there's Hannibal and St. Augustine, both claimed as black by some Afrocentrists.