Posted on 04/19/2023 6:32:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Egyptian experts have criticized Netflix for “blackwashing” its upcoming docu-series about Queen Cleopatra VII.
Now, they’re taking action to see that the show never airs — by banning the streaming giant from the country completely.
“African Queens: Queen Cleopatra” is narrated and executive produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, 51, and stars Adele James, 27, who is biracial, as the legendary queen of Egypt, whose specific race has long been the subject of historical dispute.
Pinkett Smith previously explained that she wanted to be involved in the project because she “really wanted to represent Black women.”
But Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, who previously served as the nation’s antiquities minister, is not happy with the “completely fake” portrayal of the famous queen, who he claims was wholly Greek — and “not black.” He’s accused Netflix of “trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilization is black.”
“Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not black,” the archaeologist told the Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper, per a BBC report on Wednesday.
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I'll be okay with it if the actor in the movie was Denzel Washington because he's a great actor. And I know nothing about air traffic controllers in real life so that wouldn't matter.
This is different because Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek. She was not a Nubian, the last time I've read.
Never mind.....
“This is different because Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek.”
I said, “This isn’t about Cleopatra...”
It is amazing how shows are putting forth blacks. I watched part of an episode from Prime Slasher, blacks are shown as a main part of late 18 century England. And started to watch a series Legacies where all the white girls have black boy friends.
Rapant indoctrination.
Nice to hear it from real Egyptians.
American historians would be raked over the coals as racists.
I thought she was from Woke-kanda?
She was a Ptolemy.
Most likely not black.
Cleopatra was 100% Macedonian GREEK, a Caucasion,and the last ruler of the almost 300 year Ptolemaic rule of Egypt!
Either you're not knowledgeable about this history and should refrain from posting about it, or being sarcastic, which if so, yo need to end your post with /S!
I’ve never heard any archaeologist who was an expert on Egypt say that Cleo was Black-1st time I heard that fiction was from a black power type co-worker in the 80’s-I said sorry-Cleo was a Greek...
And Zahi Hawass happens to be white, as well as the ultimate Egyptologist—maybe that what netfakes is pissed about...
They are ALL damned dead WRONG!
RE: So the Disney should also be accused of blackwashing Tinkerbell and Ariel
Yes
https://freerepublic.com/tag/blackwashing/index
Inaccurate to the nth degree and utter GARBAGE!
This ‘blackwashing’ is just insane.😂😂
If so, then old Honest Abe was wrong!
the legendary queen of Egypt, whose specific race has long been the subject of historical dispute.There's no dispute, she was Macedonian Greek.
She wasn't black, she wasn't African, she wasn't Egyptian, she was Greek.
Wasn’t Cleopatra a Macedonian?
Frosty the Coal Miner?
It seems blacks have no history or culture so they have to steal some like it was the hair products aisle at a Walmart or something.
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