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Egyptian government says Cleopatra was NOT black: Officials slap down Netflix for 'blackwashing' pharaoh as they say she 'had white skin and Hellenistic features' - and docudrama is 'a falsification of Egyptian history'
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 28 2023 | JOE HUTCHISON and ROSS IBBETSON and ELEANOR DYE FOR MAILONLINE

Posted on 04/28/2023 1:58:52 PM PDT by knighthawk

Egypt has slammed Netflix for presenting Cleopatra as black in its new docudrama - accusing the streaming giant of 'falsifying Egyptian history'.

Netflix had been accused of 'blackwashing' history by casting the black actress as the pharaoh in the new series about the Macedonian-Greek ruler.

African Queens: Queen Cleopatra stars 37-year-old English actress Adele James as the titular character.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: blackwashing; cleopatra; cleopatravii; donate2donaldtrump; donate2freerepublic; donatetrump; egypt; genealogy; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; netflix; romanempire
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, yes. The ancient Greek theatre used men to play both sexes, as in Japanese Kabuki.
But using someone of different color or sex to play an historical person in what is labeled as a documentary is insane.
The Hollywood studios were lambasted for doing it in the mid-20th century but it is acceptable now, as long as the actors are of color or bent gender! The double standard is galling. Hollywood did it to save money by using actors under existing contracts. Today it is done to push the limits of effrontery.
Why use humans at all? Let’s make Cleopatra a horse! As long as the merit is there, why not? Caligula made a horse a senator!! As long as the merit is there!!
Pulling this crap on top of the rotten education kids are receiving these days will make for a pretty stupid generation.
If you are willing to enjoy the dumbing down of your History, enjoy!


41 posted on 04/28/2023 3:10:52 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Penelope Dreadful

The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (744 BC–656 BC) was black (Nubian) lasted about 100 years.


42 posted on 04/28/2023 3:12:22 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: knighthawk
There are hadiths aplenty -- official judgments -- that saying Mohammed was black should be answered by killing the individual making that statement. These hadiths assert he was white, so "White supremacy" anyone?

It is a guarnatee that the Muslim world is not amused nor convinced by the faux intellects reigning in the US entertainment industry. and the race hustle which goes on unabated since Booker T. Washington in 1911 warned of "race hustlers."

43 posted on 04/28/2023 3:12:50 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: nickcarraway

To be color blind, it is time for an all Asian cast of Porgy and Bess, which as we all know was written by the Gershwins who were oddly not black....


44 posted on 04/28/2023 3:15:09 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: nickcarraway
Actors and actresses, though began to be "popular" figures in the late 19th century, were NOT considered to be "fit" for high class society.

This only sort of began to change somewhat in the 20th century in America and in the UK.

By ignoring the law,in your comments, you left out the important reason WHY boys played female roles, in Elizabethan England.

And you also ignored many other things I posted.

Your inability to refute what I said, or just ignoring it completely doesn't help your arguments.

45 posted on 04/28/2023 3:21:13 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I didn’t try to refute what you said, except that it wasn’t just because of prostitution. In general, actress was considered an unsuitable job for a woman.


46 posted on 04/28/2023 3:22:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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It is long past time to make a white wakanda movie


47 posted on 04/28/2023 3:23:50 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Chickensoup
Hey! Anne Boleyn was black. I saw it on TV. I know...
48 posted on 04/28/2023 3:25:09 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: nickcarraway
As were most "jobs"; however it WAS because of prostitution/the seduction of males audiences!

Your lack of factual historical knowledge is breathtaking.

49 posted on 04/28/2023 3:25:16 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: knighthawk

The left only knows and goes one way.


50 posted on 04/28/2023 3:25:54 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: joshua c
I’ve been waiting for the Jackson 5 movie staring the Osmond Brothers for years.
51 posted on 04/28/2023 3:27:13 PM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: knighthawk

Cleopatra was not black. Men are not women. Women are not men. Catholicism is not Christian. And on and on it goes.


52 posted on 04/28/2023 3:31:55 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: Reily

Maybe, but was Cleopatra black? That is the question. If Nubian rulers were black, that was 600 years before Cleopatra.


53 posted on 04/28/2023 3:40:24 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: knighthawk

The black racists hang their fantasy on fact that Cleopatra younger half sister Arsinoe mother/grandmother were unknown

That she may have been born from a mistress or harem girl rather than a legal wife


54 posted on 04/28/2023 3:55:46 PM PDT by njslim
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To: knighthawk

Arsinoe was exiled to Ephesus for a rebellion against Cleopatra when she was only about 14-15 years old

Mark Anthony, at the behest of Cleopatra, had her murdered


55 posted on 04/28/2023 3:58:10 PM PDT by njslim
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To: Penelope Dreadful

She was Macedonian! They didn’t intermarry with local Egyptian royalty. There weren’t many if any left after the Persian conquest (Before Alexander). I’ve read that her mother was from the Seleucid royal line. Note: Another one Alexander’s generals - Seleucus who went into the king business in Syria. Might have Persian noble blood.


56 posted on 04/28/2023 4:05:17 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Reily

Man, it’s all Greek to me. :)


57 posted on 04/28/2023 4:10:49 PM PDT by Penelope Dreadful (And there is Pansies, that's for Thoughts. +Sodomy & Abortion are NOT cornerstones of Civilization! )
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To: knighthawk

Reminds me of this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8no8ItMebQ&pp=ygUebG91aXMgdGhlcm91eCBibGFjayBJc3JlYWxpdGVz


58 posted on 04/28/2023 4:13:38 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others.")
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To: Nifster
"My history classes always taught that she was of znubian heritage and darker than the Romans or Greeks"
I remember reading that Caesar said she was a redhead (and he should have known).
59 posted on 04/28/2023 5:20:48 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: knighthawk

I don’t trust the Egyptians now or historically. The things that they carved into stone about their pharaohs are often total fabrications. When a pharaoh fell out of favor they defaced or chiseled out everything about him that they could reach. Every royal tomb that could be accessed was looted.

But I trust Netflix even less.


60 posted on 04/28/2023 5:51:24 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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