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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Of course. The Gunfight one. Lincoln calls Uhura a Nubian Princess. Jeezus this was not worth my while. Stay out of future obscure references I make, please.
Of course. The Gunfight one. Lincoln calls Uhura a Nubian Princess. Jeezus this was not worth my while. Stay out of future obscure references I make, please.
Of course. The Gunfight one. Lincoln calls Uhura a Nubian Princess. Jeezus this was not worth my while. Stay out of future obscure references I make, please.
Bald asshole.
She had to ask?
Chelsea! Where did you go to school?
Must have started at one of those Montessori progressive learning centers.
YUP; You Tube also says that Yellowstone is going to explode at the the end of this week, but it looks like we both live in California so we don’t have to worry about that.
Now for the You Tube HUMAN FLESH EATING ALIENS on the other hand we all better be locked and loaded!
I don't even know what she means by that.
Your quote is therefore specious and irrelevant, in the extreme, to this thread and the topic.
Ergo...you just lost this argument and in spades. Kindly refrain from being puerile and posting uneducated clap trap in the future.
LOL!
He is correct. She was descended from Ptolemy I Soter. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy-I-Soter
That’s not what he called Uhura.
Love,
O2
“I don’t even know what she means by that.”
I think it means that she really wanted to misrepresent Black women.
Jada Smith strikes again. She SLAP’s history upside the head.
Haha...looks kinda like Tiger Woods...only darker
She was not only 100% Greek, most of the Ptolemys were inbred as well. They commonly married and procreated with their own siblings.
This is the way she looked in the historically accurate nearly documentary film Cleopatra in 1963 (yes, I’m kidding).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28913843@N06/3194414685/in/photostream/lightbox/
I just wanna know if they’re going to portray Cleopatra as bald since that was the style back in the day and, if so, who the hell is Will Smith gonna slap for it?!
She wasn’t black, she wasn’t African, she wasn’t Egyptian, she was Greek.
This BS has gone on for a while now. She was a queen of Egypt, Egypt is in Africa, Africans are black, therefore she (and all Egyptians) must have been black.
Going back to very ancient times, Carthage was located in northern Africa. Carthaginians were WHITE!
The original Egyptians, from earliest times, before being invade and taken over by various different WHITE ( set aside the Kush for the moment ) people were WHITE! And no, they didn't intermarry.
The Dutch and French living in the Netherlands, who settled what has become the Republic of South Africa, many hundreds of years ago were WHITE! The Boers still are white!
Ergo NOT all peoples who have ever lived in the continent of Africa were EVER all black.
Tinkerbell and Ariel are fictional characters. Ariel is a Disney character. They can make them black, white or blue.
A documentary of a known historical figure on the other hand...
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