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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Was a Star Trek reference normy.
Cleopatra’s genealogy is available on the net. Greek for at least 5 generations.
She was somewhat swarthy, as she was Macedonian.
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I think you mean Nubian roughly equivalent to Kush. However, the 25th dynasty was a line of pharaohs who originated in the Kingdom of Kush, located in present-day northern Sudan and Upper Egypt. Most of this dynasty’s kings saw Napata as their spiritual homeland. They reigned in part or all of Ancient Egypt from 747–656 BC. The Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXVI, alternatively 26th Dynasty or Dynasty 26) dynasty was the last native dynasty to rule Egypt before the Persian conquest in 525 BC. Total number of Egyptian dynasties was I think 31. Plus, two Greek ruling dynasties, the last one the Ptolemaic and the last of that line was Cleopatra.
It's like that everywhere. On screen. Off screen. Nothing wrong if the guy is an upstanding citizen like Ben Carson. But we are worshipping ghetto culture. And I say this as someone who's of mixed race.
I actually saw a discussion online somewhere about a year or more ago where a black woman was arguing Cleopatra was black. She was shocked to find out Cleopatra was Greek and not dark skinned.
Now I know why these people are out there. The left telling these lies.
Holy shit! That’s hysterical.
He does look African there. After all he is South African.
Now it might be accurate if Frosty was by the mills in a steeltown of the 1960s-1970s....
The only GOOD one is the original and before you ask, I did watch the following 2 , which got progressively worse and then gave up on it.
With Disney, Snow White will be cast as black, but with a last name of “White”.
Cinderella will be cast as a transexual, but with the name changed to Cinderfella.
“ Sold as slaves by Arabs and a massive inferiority complex that we have to endure because some assholes were lazy and immoral.”
Sub-Saharans sold other Sub-Saharans. People they’d already enslaved and/or were going to sacrifice.
I actually know all about the Kush and have a couple of books about them and their brief ( in terms of how short lived it was ) their rule in Egypt.
The Ptolemaic rule ran three times as long. Cleopatra VII was the last of that line.
Cleopatra was from wakanda.
Zahi Hawass is white.
Why do you watch such trash?
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