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QUEEN CLEOPATRA: Netflix sued by Egyptian lawyer for blackwashing history
Greek city times ^ | 20th April 2023

Posted on 04/19/2023 8:00:56 PM PDT by Cronos

An Egyptian lawyer has filed a case with the Public Prosecutor to close the Netflix platform after the trailer of “Queen Cleopatra" was released, which depicts the Greek historical figure as a black-skinned woman.

According to Egypt Independent, Mahmoud al-Semary demanded that all legal measures be taken against those responsible for the documentary and the management of the streaming platform for its participation in “this crime.” He also called for an investigation and for Netflix to be blocked in Egypt.

The complaint submitted against the streaming platform said that "most of what Netflix platform displays contradicts Islamic and societal values and principles, especially Egyptian ones."

It added that the platform displayed advertisements that attracted millions of people in the world to watch the documentary Queen Cleopatra, who was of Greek origin depicting her as black woman, unlike Egyptian history and civilization.

The case said that the documentary promotes Afrocentrism that is widely spread on social media, which have slogans and writings aimed at distorting and obliterating the Egyptian identity.

The complaint continued addressing Public Prosecution: "In order to preserve the Egyptian national and cultural identity among Egyptians all over the world and take pride in it, and to consolidate the spirit of belonging to the homeland, and accordingly we ask and seek you to take the necessary legal measures against this platform."

It demanded stopping broadcasts showing all works aimed at obliterating and distorting the Egyptian identity, through films aimed at falsifying and distorting history in Egypt.

The complaint accused makers of the documentary and platform management of forgery.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: afrocentrism; blackwashing; cleopatra; cleopatravii; cultureappropriation; egypt; falsehistory; godsgravesglyphs; macedonian; netflix; romanempire
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To: Jamestown1630
I guess most of us are all ‘mixed-up and turned-around’, if you go back far enough.

Yeah, I've heard rumors that I might have a bit of French blood. [Don't spread it around.]

41 posted on 04/19/2023 9:40:10 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Reynoldo
Yep. I refer to the man as Martin King; it's his name after all. I can not bring myself to pay homage with all that highfalutin puffery. I always liked the way Rush refereed to "The Reverend" Jesse Jackson.

42 posted on 04/19/2023 9:51:50 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Angelino97

Well, there’s an IQ icebreaker for a party...


43 posted on 04/19/2023 10:01:00 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Cronos

Let’s see, how would they like it if Brad Pitt got cast as Martin Luther King Jr. ?


44 posted on 04/19/2023 10:02:55 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: beaversmom

Well, maybe he needs to change the channel when he sees something he doesn’t like.

My husband is a ham radio guy; and we once attended a meeting where Riley Hollingsorth, former enforcement agent for Amateur Radio at the FCC, was speaking.

There’s always ‘One Big Knob’, and it’s a useful principle to remember. (If you aren’t into ham radio, most of this will be boring; but my point is expressed between 9:40 and 15.57)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCN-3jkMHqE


45 posted on 04/19/2023 10:36:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: beaversmom

I guess you have DNA results to prove that?

:-)


46 posted on 04/19/2023 10:37:51 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jeff Chandler

Well, according to those who take everything in the Bible literally, we’re all descended from one man and one woman; so we’re all kin.

(I’m a mostly British mutt, except for a little Italian, a little more French and German, and the family legend of some aboriginal American...I guess someone back in the 1600s may have ‘gone native’.)


47 posted on 04/19/2023 10:45:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Cronos

I’ve been meaning to ask: does anyone know where they got the actual blind assassin to play John Wick’s antagonist in the latest installment? I thought he was awesome! But, I’d hate to think he took a spot that a real blind assassin deserved. At least he was Asian IRL, so there’s that.


48 posted on 04/20/2023 12:53:33 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Dr. Pritchett

I know you’re joking, but Donnie Yen is awesome!

That guy in Ip man was incredible.


49 posted on 04/20/2023 1:10:53 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: MoochPooch

“the Blacks” - by that you mean sub-Saharan African.

They did have great empires like the Mali empire

Or if we consider Ethiopia as sub-saharan (not sure), then THAT was a great kingdom, empire and civilization — and still is


50 posted on 04/20/2023 1:20:37 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: MoochPooch
the Egyptians and the Blacks had a common ancestor, Ham.

Actually, linguistically and to some extent genetically, the Egyptians, the Berbers, the Canaanites and the Israelites are all part of the same people - Afro-Asiatic speakers - who split 8KYA.

The Canaanites and Israelites are genetically and linguistically similar

51 posted on 04/20/2023 1:23:21 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Bullish

Their culture is steeped in steaming tribalism.
Their achievements and progress are undeniable.

If you go inland anywhere, they operate advanced low emissions lifestyles. They live in mud huts, don’t have electricity, running water, no ice boxes, televisions, cars...

This is the lifestyle the obamanites want to impose on America.


52 posted on 04/20/2023 1:23:38 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Angelino97

Christ too.

Ask James Cone, Mr. Black Liberation Theology


53 posted on 04/20/2023 1:27:47 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Have you read “Guns, Germs and Steel”? by Jared Diamond?

The sub-saharan Africans - of which there are 3 races:
1. Khoi-san (bushmen)
2. pygmies
3. bantu speakers

all had it great before the end of the last ice age in 10K BC — they had food plenty and warmth. The rest of the world was a frozen spitball (I exaggerate), but they had it good.

The same for the Aborigines in Australia and then the early migrants to the Americas.

But later, with the agricultural revolution, things changed.

I liken it to the sea-change in European countries’ fortunes after 1492 and 1495 — until that point in time the countries on the Mediterranean basin like Genoa, Venice etc. were rich. But then the Atlantic facing countries got rich


54 posted on 04/20/2023 1:30:14 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos

Wasn’t the Mali empire founded in Islam, flesh and gold trading by the mid easterners?


55 posted on 04/20/2023 1:38:45 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: himno hero

No, the Malian empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and was traditional West African religion.


56 posted on 04/20/2023 2:46:00 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Vermont Lt

So you would be fine with Malcolm X being portrayed by Miley Cyrus?


57 posted on 04/20/2023 2:49:38 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Bullish

Try replacing a movie about Harriet Tubman with a white woman or MLK with a white man and see what happens.


58 posted on 04/20/2023 3:13:33 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: himno hero

In my opinion the Black theology movement is an American phenomenon like the Mormons, Pre-Tribulation rapture, Jehovah’s witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and Christian Scientists - arose in the 1800s in very specifically American circumstances.

Slavery is not exclusive to black or dark skinned peoples as we all know, but it became exclusively like that in North America in the 1800s until the civil war. And the lingering effects of that prejudice lasted.

I think it died out in the 60s and 70s, but then a counter-reaction has created a yo-yo effect of escalating alienation and prejudice.

How can we solve this? I don’t know.

I do know that I don’t feel safe when I am in a poor black area, but then I don’t feel safe when in a poor white Cockney area of East London or in an Arab souk.

So, I don’t know the solution or even how to get there — thank goodness I ain’t a politician!


59 posted on 04/20/2023 3:16:45 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: SauronOfMordor; Vermont Lt

my 3 c — if it was a musical with Miley Cyrus as the axe wielding demon-hunting MLK Jr - yeah, ok. It’s fiction.

But if it was stated to be a documentary, then NOkay


60 posted on 04/20/2023 3:18:27 AM PDT by Cronos
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