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The Intersection of Race and History: The Controversy Over Cleopatra’s Ethnicity in Netflix’s “Black Cleopatra”

We note another intersectional traffic accident because which side does WOKE take: the black woman or the Arab Muslim? A very strange trailer anyway, especially the cut-out below: “I remember my grandmother saying to me: “I don’t care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was Black“. Well, it’s not like they left it subtle and implicit, is it. And what Jada Pinket Smith “a nod to the centuries-long conversation about the ruler’s raceseems more like a headbutt to us.

But now one is complaining Egyptian lawyer So Netflix is ​​trying to stop the publication of the show in Egypt. Egyptian experts insist that Cleopatra “belonged to a Greek-speaking dynasty, was of European descent and not BlackOther experts again claim that while her father was irrefutably Macedonian-Greek, HER MOTHER’S RACE is unknown and she possible Sub-Saharan African.

And the funny thing is; the actress Adele James who plays Cleopatra is therefore of mixed descent herself, but the commentators in the series insist that she was black. In short, just a very expensive one We Wuz Kingz it.

“My grandmother: I don’t care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was Black”

Seems almost!

Actress Adele James responds

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Bright!

Yes, it *doesn’t* stand out

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