did you hear that Cleopatra was black

yep that is right, Netflix confirmed it as did the writers of the series. So it must be true.

Just ignore the lawsuit happing against Netflix by some Egyptians for trying to erase their history.
Surely it wouldnt be Hollywood trying to rewrite history to put black people at the center of everything instead of just making compelling shows on Black history that does not include slavery
Race swapping is just far easier

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Mamapolo2016 · F

This is a spurious and silly argument, because nobody knows for sure.

At least 25% of her ancestry was Macedonian and Persian (Greek and Iranian).

However, there are two major missing elements. I believe the ethnicity of her mother and grandmother are unknown.

Egypt was a nation of merchants who were in contact with African nations and the traffic and commerce went both ways.

So she could have been mixed race or lily white or somewhere in between. The reason we think of her as white is because hollywood told us so with Liz Taylor.

I for one do not care, not even a little. Do the movies that featured white actors as Native Americans make you this annoyed?

Source: knowledgesnacks.com

ElwoodBlues · M

@Mamapolo2016 And, of course, all of humanity is of African descent!

This is a more informative map of migration patterns but I can't get it to link and display
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/7427cf31-bfc8-40bf-bcea-9364d6cc05d6/rstb20110306f01.jpg

Mamapolo2016 · F

@ElwoodBlues Now you've done it!