jeff lacey yes but there's a difference between changing the appearance/race of the main character of a fictional story. And changing the apperenace and race of a historical figure with multiple pieces of evidence that there change isn't historically accurate. I can support the little mermaid I can't support this cleopatra stuff.
@@Vaydore as someone who's had to sit through an art history class with a professor who focused on Egyptian history. Let me tell you this documentary would make my professor very sad. Also I love how she's a British actress trying to change Egyptian history. Like the amount of Egyptian artifacts form ancient Egypt in the British museum is insane. They couldn't stand just having egypts things now they wanna change its history lol
I just love how they're justifying it with "Egypt is a part of Africa". That's like making a movie about Ghandi, but casting him as a Japanese man and defending it with "India is part of Asia"
@@sakshikhatavkar3562 what are you on about LOL how do you hear a "white-washed" pronunciation through the screen? Share your superpowers please because I would love to hear comments as voices in my head
@@sakshikhatavkar3562 that’s like saying how Americans say chai tea, when it’s only supposed to be chai, it’s not offending anyone, it’s just a different way to say it, and it’s not like other races don’t call Gandhi just Gandhi, kinda racist to single out white people
Egyptian here. We defend our history, they call us racists! How preposterous ! We are very proud of our history, we defend it as if it’s a living member !
One of the most fascinating histories out there and in my opinion, Egyptians have EVERY RIGHT to feel proud. Netflix are in the business to make money . . . that's their first and their last reason for being. History is theirs to manipulate, judge and profit from any way they can. I am so pleased your country has reacted the it has. I wish UK had a spine and would call out these travesties.
This is a result of black jealousy and insecurity towards other races as well as guilt and shame of white liberals. The white liberals fund this garbage and people like Jada Pinkett Smith have no problem blackwashing Egyptian history and then calling anyone who disapproves “racist.” Truly despicable and disgusting.
I am Greek and we shares thousands of years with Egypt. This cannot be stolen or changed. We stand with our own history as well as Egyptian history. 🇬🇷 🇪🇬
I mean, we don't know if george washington was really white. He could've been black. That's the logic they're using. You can have your own opinions, but not your own facts
You need a special level of entitlement to appropriate an entire culture for your own political agenda and then call them racist when they call you out on B.S
Greece should be especially offended as well. They still possess highly homogenous modern day DNA profiles indicated in numerous conducted studies and academic papers. Cleo was of Alexandrian Greek aristocracy that ruled over Egypt in those ancient times. They intermarried within their dynasty, so no chance of foreign assimilation. So much for the Nubian angle. Greeks therefore should also be racist to this ... "CLASSIST".
And that’s why people have been trying to point out the red flags of some modern anti-racism movements, with the idea that those from stigmatized groups can’t also stigmatize other peoples.
Just because they are famous actors dosen't make them intelligent, they always think they have something important to say but most of the time is just nonsense like this, the problem is that most people take wathever nonsense they say at face value
which is even funnier when you know cleopatra wasn't even an egyptian she was greek. After the conquest of egypt by Alexander all Pharao were greek not even egyptian XD
@@isaiah7979 You made me laugh, the Arabs are a half-Semitic, half-Coptic dynasty.. Colonization is something that the dominant civilizations have done since God created the earth and those on it.
As a black person, I’m absolutely disgusted with this documentary. I’ve heard so many black people tell me this lie and I never believed it especially when there is also literal genetic evidence showing that Cleopatra WASNT BLACK. I’m so sick of the black people who claim that she’s black when that’s simply not the case. We have our own African historical figures who were actually very influential to history but Netflix doesn’t care about them, they just want to be part of the go woke, go broke campaign. Shame on the actress for calling all of Egypt racist when this documentary would inevitably backfire, shame on Netflix for allowing such garbage to be streamed on their already bad platform and shame on the people who actually backed this documentary as well. Stop rewriting history for your woke agenda!
I give her props for not only being a british woman and doing a documentary without consulting any Egyptian historian, but also have the balls to actually call an ENTIRE COUNTRY racist about their own history. That takes a whole universe of delusion right there.
@@etnomadaul you keep commenting this and the people liking your comment, as well as you, are stupid. That is all. There is a difference between a documentary claiming that the entire Egyptian history is wrong based on an African Americans made up history about a country she has no ethnic background ties to, and a movie with no claims to any historical truths to it. You’re not a very good troll. But props for trying!
@@kennethverona25 shes not lost or confused. She just wants to intentionally re-write history and find some "strange".... That is with her son's friend.
What the actress needs to understand is that no one is affended by HER skin colour. They're affected by Cleopatra's depiction as a black woman. This is just so absurd like girl you're not that important lol
i think I can believe that some twisted people do attack her bc her skin color. We see people attacked ariel actor and insult their skin color by calling her racial slur. But I do agree that she just focusing on that only, not the other opinion that called out that this movie is ignorance. Although, imo the blame should be on the writer, or the director who has a say on this movie. Completely garbage.
The fact that they used mummies as medicine is somehow hilarious for me. On the other hand, at least nowadays, the British Museum looks after historical artefacts are looked after very well.
Facts. They never called themselves a "documentary" or claimed they were trying to be historically accurate. They were trying to be fun action movies. That's it.
@@emperordragon1794 No they're not because a fun movie is a fun movie, not a self declared "documentary". You know, a "documentary", being a production using FACTS, not FICTION.
Yea pretty much. Nobody ever said. "Abbot and Costello should be more realistic" when the whole point of their monster movies is they were ridiculous and campy.
@@CT--jv2ur the reason everything is so woke Is a company called blackrock, investors that only work with companies that does woke. Look them up. They are so powerful that they are the fourth branch of government
I can't believe she is accusing the Egyptians who are defending their history, of being racist. This is absolutely ridiculous. The amount of entitlement is sickening. I don't trust any documentaries from Netflix. You can't just change history and expect people not to be mad about it. 🤦♀️
Let's make a documentary on Martin Luther King, Bob Marley, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali as white or Arab men . Or about the oppression of the Mexican or Chinese or Arab people that came to America as slaves 5 centuries ago in the slave Atlantic trades
She must not have interacted with any Egyptians while filming as they have quite a range of skin tones, including much darker than her own. It's a bizarre statement for her to say that they feel threatened because of her skin tone.
HELLO DONT BELIEVE EGYPTIANS THEY ARE JUST YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE WASHED BY EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST YEARS AGO SO EGYPTIANS KEEP TRYING TO SAY THAT THEY ARE WHITE FROM A LONG TIME AGO WHEN THE ONLY REAL EGYPTIANS LOOKING ARE THE KNE WHO ARE BROWN SKIN COLOR IN CAIRO OR SOUTH KF EGYPT .....WHAT IS RACIST ABOUT SPEAKING THE FACTS OF HISTORY ....... EGYPTIANS😅😅😅ARE BEING LIKE RUSSIANS WHEN SOMEONE WHO IS LIVING IN RUSSIA AND SAYS RUSSIANS ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE SOCIAL MEDIA SAYS AND RUSSIANS SAY THE SAME BRAINWASHING SHIT AS HOW EGYPTIANS ARE DOING ABOUT THE COLOR OF SKIN THEY HAVE IN THE ANCIENT HISTORY
As an Egyptian from Alexandria, we are in disbelief!! All we have left as Alexandrians is the history of our city and we are watching it being commandeered by the Afro-centrist movement there are. There are 50 African counties and countless old empires with their own unique history!! Leave ours alone !
@@firebyrd437 Except he also indulged in [as in made his fortune from] capturing and selling his fellow Africans into slavery. I think they did actually make something about this country/king/female army but changed the FACTS to FICTION in order to suit their narrative there as well. Sound familiar???????????????????????
1:53 she needs to understand that racism isn’t hating on black people. Racism is thinking less of a certain group of people because of their skin, heritage, ethnicity, nationality etc, which she is so very much doing.
Yeah... American antics don't work over there... They've seen what happens when that type of thought process is allowed to take foothold and they aint havin it.
What’s low key sad is that the actress seems to believe she got there due to some kind of merit, when in fact she was hired exactly for her skin color. They don’t even hide how purposeful this was. For traction.
This is what annoys me about calls for the next James Bond to be black, or when Nexflix made King Arthur black . They don't want the actors to get the part because they are best suited for it, just for their skin colour. It is nothing but patronising.
Its a common psychotic condition these days for groups of people to aggressively elbow and crowbar their way into other peoples spaces while completely viewing themselves as the victim. Its truly absurd and evil.
America has become a very socially molesting culture. No matter who a person is, there are at least some circles where their ass simply does not belong!
Meanwhile the movie was made by a bunch of white Americans. I am African American and I never even heard of this film coming out. I don’t know anyone who watched it or cared about it’s production. It sucks that white liberals do these things for their own agendas and then people think all African Americans want this. I think a lot of people in the comments just secretly hate black Americans and are jumping for an excuse to complain. Black media outlets have not promoted the film, no one cares about cleopatra because she is not a part of our history.
Cleopatra was from Greek and Persian heritage. She defiantly wasnt black, even though she was born in Egypt. She was descended from Ptolemy I Soter , and she married her brother - There are Greek statues of them all … and they have zero African features or heritage. This is a blatant attempt to blackwash history.
@@JDAfricawhile cleopatra was likely lighter skinned Egypt definitely had people with dark skin including many Pharos throughout history and depending on who was occupying it.
@@vikzn1607 But all talk is about Cleopatra. Nobody said that Egypt didn't have dark-skinned people. It's just said that Cleopatra was looking more like a Greek than Egyptian
I'm Italian, I attended liceo classico while I was in high school, and the amount of bullsh*t I had to listen about Greek and Roman culture and history according to this miniseries is beyond absurdity.
They do realize Cleopatra was an actual person, right? It's not like trying to make Spider-Man black, this is history not entertainment. I swear Jada would've played the role herself if her ego were just a bit bigger
@@etnomadaul Keanu Reeves plays a person of mixed descent (Japanese and European) in that film, other two examples are from 1960s. Yul Brynner wasn't white but Siberian and Elizabeth Taylor was racially closer to real Cleopatra than actress Netflix used. To claim Cleopatra was black is equally stupid as to claim Lincoln was a Cherokee
@@etnomadaul Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 60s was not right. But to have another actress in the opposite end of the spectrum to represent Cleopatra in 2023 is also not right. Did I say 60s? If anything, Macedonian Greek would probably look more European like Liz Taylor than black.
@@andyyoung5972 No, especially when the Flintstones broke the space time continuum by celebrating Christmas more than a few million years before the birth of Christ.
This comment made me laugh because it’s an accurate summary and it’s funny. Thanks. This whole thing has been really getting on my nerves so it’s nice to read a comment that makes me smile. Thank you.
Because she was black. The original Egyptians were black, the people who are mad are the colonizers of Egypt. You don't get to steal people's history because you colonized them.
@@isaiah7979 By that logic everyone in the United States/Canada is Aboriginal. Lol. You know the Greeks colonized Egypt too and Cleopatra was a member of that monarchy, right?
@@michaelhill6451 Colonized people tend to identify with their colonizer after a time. Black people in Haiti call themselves French. Her having proximity to the Greeks does not change the fact that she was a negro.
The thing is, if this is not considered a "documentary", ppl would have just be like "nay another lousy movie" and look past it warning ppl to not believe it thats all. Maybe just take the aesthatic in this and admire colors thats all. But! the fact that they state this is a documentary and has the audacity to not follow through the real history nor have any input about it from the egypt country and is still being disrespectful to them just doubly disgusting of them.
Next Hollywood is going to make a motion picture about George Washington's life and Will Smith will play George, gotta love these modern times of Cultural appropriation and reparations
exactly! I don't think the backlash would be this bad had they just not called it a documentary. They could have just called it historical fiction because that's exactly what it is.
Facts can be proven. So where is the proof that Cleopatra was black? She descended from a line of Macedonian Greeks who wanted to keep the dynasty “pure” through inbreeding with their own siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. If a couple of Europeans who are biologically related to each other bang each other, you think a black baby is coming out of that vagina?
Typical woke Marxist praxis to reset historical facts to assist enforcement of current ideology. The current woke interpretation of racism is quite new, so the praxis is to present the new version as having always been true. This is a concept that George Orwell dealt with a lot in 1984: “The past was alterable ... Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past… The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."
Well... Racism as an ideology based off eugenics is fairly modern. What we understand as race is fairly new. Different ethnicities, and even different clans within that ethnicity, would maybe have been seen as different 'races'
What’s hilarious is her trying to make all the backlash about her skin tone while refusing to acknowledge that her skin tone is the only reason she got the role 😂
Her saying “Egypt is racist” while being racist herself by stealing an Egyptions identity, just shows how black people can get away racism themselves by simply pulling the black card. Absolutely disgusting
Completely agree, It’s getting out of hand now! I know anyone could do this, but it’s mostly minorities and yes, it is mostly black people. Using the ‘race card’ as an excuse for their shitty behaviour and people are too scared to call them out in fear of being called a racist by mindless morons who can’t think critically. It absolves them of all accountability for their actions, and what’s worse is that it works. Furthermore, I bet you it’s those same people who bang on the most about white privilege. These people are actually perverting the true meaning of racism and giving it a new meaning to what it actually means, and it’s extremely disrespectful to those who have suffered from real racism.
They hate themselves so much that they have to be victims or their whole life is meaningless. It's the fight of a lifetime. It unknowingly causes more issues. Not just with self issues, but with other people outside their group. It's pretty sad stuff all around. It's a pretty common occurrence to call out "racism" when things don't go their way. They want to be a victim.. Who in the right mind wants to be victimized to that? It's insane. A LITTLE note for the sensitive people out there. No, I'm not claiming all African descendants are like this. It's "mostly" western African descendants.
They deliberately excluded any Egyptian actors or staff. They essentially made a pseudo "Docu" with British and American actors. And when Egyptians point that out, they label THEM racist. The sheer audacity, these people are pathetic. It`s them that should be "canceled" for trying to blackface history and brainwashing audiences.
Remember, the people accusing the Egyptians of being racist for standing up to this absolute mockery of what documentaries are supposed to be, are the same ones that called out Night at the Museum for casting Rami Malek as an Egyptian Pharaoh because he wasn't black, completely ignorant of the fact the guy is actually Egyptian.
I'm an Egyptian, and my father is a tour guide who's spent his whole life studying and giving lectures about Egyptian history; he's really passionate about it, and I grew up listening to him telling me brief parts of our history. When he saw this he was SOOOOO MAD - see, if it was just some kid's cartoon misinterpreting Egyptian history and customs/culture out of ignorance, which I'm sure you CAN find somewhere on the internet, it wouldn't even bother us, hasn't bothered us for years. Not a lot of Egyptians are all that involved in western media drama and politics. But this was just going TOO far. My father said he felt like it was done with bad intentions. He and I were straight up laughing at the incredulity, the audaciousness of that "documentary". I literally live RIGHT NEXT TO THE PYRAMIDS 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And then I hear or read about some bullshit about how I, as an Egyptian, "don't know my own history" and "my country is full of racist people who were originally black people invaded by Arabs and westerners so we're invaders". WOW that made me so mad - I'M NOT OFFENDED BY THE ACTRESS' SKIN COLOUR, MY FATHER IS DARK-SKINNED OKAY I'M OFFENDED BY THE MALICIOUS REWRITING OF A PART OF OUR HISTORY, THENNNN BKAMING US WHEN WE GET OFFENDED and MAN does this BLATANT gaslighting and misrepresentation make my blood boil But thank you for pointing out how atrocious this documentary was
also, you may even have ancestors who were arabs conquering Egypt, but so what? It’s not like the arabs came in, slaughtered everyone and colonized the land. They became the rulers, but most of the population remained roman and/or native egyptian. The two groups just mixed with each other through time. Egyptians can claim descent from 3 great historical civilizations: the arabs, the romans and the native egyptians. One doesn’t cancel the others!!! Really glad to see Egypt fight for its heritage
They changed her race, changed her style, changed her whole personality!! Cleopatra was not a “i’ll die for my country”, she became a ruler because of her intelligence, she manipulated people with her beauty, she was very cunning and smart
This is most likely her believing in the lie only white people can be racist. She plays the race card to quickly as it is all she has. "If my show flops it must be due to the fact I'm black" Way to go, you want people to not see you for your race and then use your race at every opportunity. Hypocrit!
It's not even about skin colour, can anyone picture Caesar or Anthony fall head over heels for this version of Cleopatra? Coins minted during Cleopatra's reign depict her with a prominent nose, a strong chin, and deep-set eyes. There you go ...
The racism card being used over and over again has ruined the word racism. It has no meaning anymore. “I’m black and I failed, and you call out my failures, that means you’re racist!!” It’s gross and it’s such a damn cop out..
If people can't see how racist that is, image if someone says "I remember my Grandmother saying to me ... I don’t care what they teach you at school, Martin Luther King was white"
Exactly! If it was advertised as just oh look we’re gonna just make a new story or this is a mocumentary that’s one thing. I dislike that they wanted to seem authentic when it was the complete opposite. That being said documentary’s don’t even have to tell the truth to be considered such. Which is also really dumb
They did this earlier, they have/had a documentary about the search for an ancient highly developed society which influenced allegedly influenced other societies all around the world. The story was told like a conspiracy theory, heavily generalizing and not mentioning facts which don't fit the narrative. I watched it and also read articles about it afterwards and it became pretty obvious this show was complete bs, but the damage was done.
If it wasn't labeled a documentary I wouldn't really care I don't care much either way because we all know it's not accurate, it's just weird and not interesting lol
As an egyptian, I can properly say that these people have essentially "blackwashed" our culture, and intentionally falsified my nation's history. I sincerely hope that one day my culture gets the respect it deserves.
How dare you to criticise, they will know better because they know the history of black people. And black people are the only the ones who can reallllly understand racism and they are so oppressed. I'm sarcastic. I am sorry for you guys, the problem is the reach of this show and there might actually be some people believing in it. But Netflix just wants attention/views they don't really care about actual history, it's not their first time to publish such bs.
As an Italian I can say I would be very perplexed If they make a film about Ancient Rome with a total black cast just to prove a point. We're living in crazy times.
Yea cuz everyone hates black ppl. The fact that Rome actually had a Black Emporer & someone decided to make a movie from it would pass you off is racist asf.
As a Greek person, I find it appalling that they seem to believe that completely erasing the fact that Cleopatra was Greek is inclusive. No nationality should have priority when it comes to inclusivity. Greek people, Egyptian people and all of the other nationalities should all ne shown in media, none of them should be erased because you can make money off of having black people or white people in your film.
TheBlacks SCREAM about "cultural appropriation", yet Did you know that CornRows were appropriated in 25,000ish BC from Upper Paleolithic (France)? The were found in 3000 BC (BC+ Before CHRIST) Sahara which is/was Arabic. Later found THROUGHOUT the Middle East around 4-5th century BC. Cornrows didn't make it to the Caribbean until 1920's, about 200 years AFTER the British ended slavery. They hit the US in the 1990s So Cornrow, Cleopatra and Shopping Carts full of Cheap trendy fashions from Walmart are ALL Things stolen by Black folk
It seems all the afrocentric loonies do this all the time in the USA and other races cant hold them responsible for anything or they get branded as racist!
I am half Egyptian (with family from Egypt) and I cannot tell you how much this disturbs me. Hollywood consistently pushes the diversity agenda, but I could probably count on one hand the amount of Egyptian representation on Hollywood’s screen nowadays. And on one of the few times that it wants to represent anything Egyptian they have to go and completely erase, rewrite, and then gaslight us!!! I honestly don’t see how this made it pass Netflix, further more, I don’t see how POC are actually going along with this (considering how much they had to fight for representation) AND are actually being racist towards us!!! I am genuinely baffled
They never cared about "representing" anyone. It's all just a massive ruse so they can label anyone who dares to criticize them as "racist" (not that that word means anything anymore).
I'm East Asian, and I give my support to Egyptians on this. Hollywood has appropriated our rich cultures and histories for decades now, and when we call them out, they play victim and call us "racist". The audacity to call us "racist" for calling them out for re-rewriting our own histories, our own cultures who contributed greatly to the world. They can't seem to comprehend that we are the ancestors of these great civilizations they read in history books. It's self-righteous of them to think that they can steal the legacies without hearing our voices. It's time to protect our heritage, our culture from these westerners. They're doing the same thing their ancestors are doing hundreds of years ago by stealing our ancestors' artifacts, lands, culture, and stories, in this time instead of the British Museum, they send them to Hollywood to get appropriated and Americanized. Your Asian brothers are with you in this fight.
it’s killing me living in philly which is so liberal it’s killing us j look at k&a it’s much more than j tarnishing history although that is j the beginning
As a Mexican American, I am super glad Egypt stood up to this neo liberal bs. They also tried to do this to Meso American history, saying Olmecs were ___ . Now they also say that the Blue eyed gene from Central Asia that found its way into ireland, also comes from them, so Irish are really ___ according to them - based on CHEDDAR MAN. Mainstream 'experts' Academia ( Neo Liberal Propoganda) also needs to be put in check because they also feed into this propoganda.
In the u.k we've had a black anne boleyn and you can't get much whiter than her it's about time these fools started crediting their own historic characters instead of stealing others.
Imagine if you saw some unknown actress talk smack about the very country you live in and say "Oh everything you learned is false even though there's more scientific and research evidence" and claim you are in the wrong about your own country. I'd be pissed.
There were no Egyptian actors, because they don't consider us Egyptians. And her thinking We're threatened by her skin tone is as ridiculous as her documentary.
That's because she's one of those absolute moronic afrocentric conspiracy theorist racist : listen to them and EVERYBODY (with worth of course) was black! Egyptians? Black. Jews? Black. Romans? they're evil so, white of course. Those people are absolute morons and actually intensely hateful and racist. They need to be ridiculed at every opportunity.
There is one black person that I talked to over the phone, and he was preaching about anti rascism etc. When I told him i’m Asian, he said very racists things about me being Asian 🤦🏻♀️
@@lft3636 oh my days ikr. I saw this video about racism where black and Latino people were forming a barrier blocking white and Asian students from getting to class, using violence and insults to prevent them from getting the education they paid for. They were apparently ‘peaceful protesting’ about racism or something the delusion is actually scary
As an American and lover of history, especially Classical history, we don't claim this "documentary." Most of us aren't as insanely retarded as the world thinks we are.
As an Egyptian, all I can say is that it is a new low. It's like robbing someone's house and getting upset that they don't like it AND they take you to court for it. Yes, we Egyptians discriminate against thieves!
According to blacks in America.. They invented everything.. They were first in everything.. Everything was stolen from them.. If you don't agree, you're racist
I don’t want to generalise but it’s became a very common trend amongst western blacks to call people racist whilst inadvertently being extremely racist
How to act like a retarded person 101 Lesson 1: Whenever you're backed into a corner, you can use the race card to avoid engaging in the debate because you're too ignorant to make a valid argument.
It is racism. The ancient Egyptians were black and the black Egyptians are still there. They were forced into the northern region by their conquerors but they are still there. A group of colonizers trying to steal history is absolutely racist.
@@BRANDONMALVEAUX-v6cNo? If we suddenly had a movie about the holocaust, and all the (mostly) German and Polish Jews were portrayed of black ethnicity or, to make it even more clear, of even a whole another religious belief, would you also say that it is racist for today’s Jews to speak up, that this movie would be an absolute hilarious, misleading and reality-defying joke? I don’t think so.
Kleopatra was from a Makedon Dynasty after Philipp II. and Alexander took over the world. She was from the Dynasty of the Successor Ptolemaios. So for this period MOST importantly you take to account Historians of Hellinism and Archaeologists of Greek and Mediterranean Archaeology ‼️ That period is not classical Egyptiology ‼️ Take to account, that there is many different periods! And learn History you Imbeciles❗️
@@BRANDONMALVEAUX-v6c if if that was the case in this situation, which it’s not, they didn’t even portray the events correctly, like this man said, almost every scene had 0 to no evidence or historical proof to back it up, it’s clear you didn’t watch the video in the first place, so you shouldn’t have a say in anything in this comment section. Also, that’s like saying it’d be ok for an actress that is white to portray Martin Luther King jr
Even "The Mummy" (Brandon Frasier version) has a BUNCH of Arab and Egyptian-looking people in it, as was the main antagonist. Brandon and family being white was explained and it was a multi-racial cast.
Exactly! Calling Cleopatra an African queen is as misleading as calling Elon Musk an African billionaire. They're both descendants of European families that settled in African countries. Ignoring this erases history.
I read the title, first of all; huh?? Racist??? As an actual Egyptian who quite literally has lived in Egypt and has their grandmother's house next to the pyramids, I say that we are *NOT* being racist, we are protecting our history. This just makes me angry to my core. I don't wanna say something that I might regret but this lady is just not in the right.
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Even if you did, you have no right to contradict the lived experience of countless He bombers. The unanimous opinion of He-centric revisionist historians is that Cleopatra was only missing only the tail wheel.
Blacks are usually the most racist race of people because they always see and identify themselves as different in that way. So it often doesn't matter how you view them because it's impossible to identify a person with their personality who chooses instead to identify themselves by race.
Frr...It hits differently (in a negative way) when it’s done from a marginalized poc group to another exactly poc marginalized group. Like. You’d expect them to understand and do better
So according to this one "historian" all men care about is power, because women in power never fight for control and influence. I wonder how she feels about Queen Elizabeth I of England and her regional rival Mary Stuart of Scotland trying to one up each other, with Elizabeth coming out on top. Yet Mary still plotted against her to topple her captor, while ended with her losing her head.
@@phizzy123 Probably because it would ruin their image of Cleopatra. I should also point out that Cleopatra ordering the death of her own sister wasn't even the most shocking part. After all, siblings of a royal family killing each other was normal throughout history. No, the shocking part was that Arsinoe had been given sanctuary in a temple, and yet Cleopatra had her murdered inside. Murder inside a temple was sacrilege back then.
It's not the fault of black people, it's the fault of some entitled show-creators that are trying to enforce their ideology unto everyone. This is not about skin color, it's about an agenda. And everybody who hasn't lost his sanity is capable of seeing that.
Don’t apologize because you skin color is similar as these people. We are individuals in the USA. I get your sentiment but it makes me sad people feel the need to apologize
@@briantoplessbar4685 as an Egyptian since the day this got released I was fighting I never saw this as a racial thing I saw as changing something and claiming it is true it doesn't matter if you have the same skin color as them because that doesn't define us not even a little bit it is our action that does so don't feel bad about it
I'm Greek and my friend is Egyptian. I remember us both catching up and talking about how absurd this is. And then for her to call Egyptians racist??? I looked at my friend absolutely gobsmacked. It's incredible what you can get away with using the "race card", but I'm glad people are like "hang on that won't work here"
I called my Greek friend too and she was like come one come back after I mentioned to her that Afrocentric called me Greek 😅, she mentioned that I’m lighter than her and it’s time to claim Greeks ( we love to joke alot ) .. the absurdity that Mediterraneans can actually range in skin tone still African Americans Afrocentrica think that Egypt = Africa is ignorant
Yes, it is racist. The original Egyptians were black. And saying otherwise is racist. Your friend does not descend from the Egyptians, your friend descends from the Egyptians COLONIZERS.
I'm with Egypt. I've grown up watching movies featuring Egypt, documentaries highlighting Egypts history and beauty and its one of the places on the world I've always wanted to see. Woke tarts don't get to blackwash world history to make themselves feel good and that's all the Netflix Cleopatra disaster was, a feel good project for Jada and company.
When is white actors representing all the other nations, like Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, or Yul Brynner as Ramses, or Keanu Reeves as a Samurai?!?!
@@etnomadaul LET ME SPELL IT OUT CLEOPATRA WAS GREEK! EGYPTIANS WERE NEVER BLACK NOR WHITE but a mix and mostly tanned and our pharaohs had all colors and when we represent them we use the right color and features out of respect to the historical person، which u people need to learn!
Imagine how we feel about this as Egyptians, to say we are LIVID about this would be an understatement. And the Greek people too are equally livid about this. To hell with you Jada Smith and to hell with Netflix They crossed a line.
I definitely agree with you Shadi. IDK what my actual biology is, but this shit pisses me off and its gotten so fucking OLD. They keep doing this for no rewason other than to appease the very smalle group here in america that just cries the most. FACK
@Gittana You do realize the pyramid was 2500 years old to Cleopatra right??? Even if I wanted to entertain your "black people are the original Egyptians" the time Creole was alive is the time you're talking about the Egyptians being "descendants of Arabs" . So why not make Cleopatra the Arabic Greek she was????
@@f3iix023 Why are they so intent on removing any black trace in the so called history? If Cleo was mixed so what, why do they have an issue with it? Why didnt they sue whites for teaching that Jesus is white? If there were black people in Ancient Egypt, then Egyptian history is black people history, just like Whites consider Sumerian history as white, even though Sumerians were not English white. In any case, Cleo was Greek, why is this not a Greek complaint, even in court it is Egyptians, why didn't they go to court when it was said Egypt is not in Africa?
This happens a lot for the history of my country too, I’m persian and most Persians are white with brown hair and eyes, but when they show us in TV shows and documentaries they put Indian and brown actors in it instead of persian actors. Even in anime and cartoons they make Persians brown and when we say anything about it they call us racist. One example is the game fate grand order where they have made every Persian character black. after some complaints they only fixed one character which is arash kamangir and in the new update they made his skin white instead of brown but characters like darius III are still black in the game. And a lot of people mistake us for Arabs and when we get sad and say that we’re not Arabs they call us racist towards Arabs
How, in the WORLD, did she make it about HER, and her skin color. When they LITERALLY disrespected an entire culture of Egyptians. I pray to God everyday for strength to tolerate people like this, cause I have an extremely hard time doing so.
like how delulu and entitled she is. I've seen black people be racist just because of the slave thing long ago and they twist every story to fit their own agenda and their so called struggles. They are doing exactly what they swore was done to them
Bec if she told people they’re racist, everyone will come at them for it. She is the one using modern day IDEOLOGY To obtain hate for Egyptians for fighting for their history 😂
privileged life of someone who can deny any wrongdoing by claiming the other party is racist. Actual slaves are rolling in their graves right now seeing what their lineages have become.
100%. You can easily tell this chick is driven by her huge ego and doesnt care if she has to spit in the face of an entire nation/culture to boost that ego
She comes across like she REALLY wants the hate to be directed at black people for empowerment, but in reality the hate isnt because theyre empowered black people, its because they just butchered history. Shes a bit delusional lmfao
Her laughing about the fact that 🇪🇬 has filed a lawsuit is straight disgusting! I’m sick of this type of ‘inclusion movement’. You can represent your race as much as you want but don’t rewrite other country’s history to fit your narratives! Ridiculous!
Don't feel too refreshed. There's only 1 reason it got called out. Cuz it was against another minority. See, black thought they had carte blanche to get away with anything right now. They got reality checked! Any* minority, or historically discriminated people, is off limits right now. Blacks, Gays, Egyptians, Muslims, etc... Only white can be attacked with impunity. Notice I didn't mention Jews* yet. Ya, the asterisk was for a reason. Jews can just about do anything they want without fear of reprisal. Unless your Weinstein or Epstein. No hate, just the world we live in...
She comes across as incredibly self-absorbed in those clips. Fake laughing and acting as if your better than everyone else is never going to win any argument, ever. All it will do is make people more angry. And that's so obvious, I can't help but think she's doing it on purpose and that's her intention...
I am Egyptian, and I would be equally displeased if someone made a documentary about President Sadat and used a fair skin actor, Sadat had a very dark tone. It is not racism, it is about people taking the liberty to misrepresent our history. Thank you Jesse for a fair and balanced review.
@@leonet6681xactly. These colonizers think they are entitled to fit everything they stole into their image. It funny to see them being so mad over something they believe into a lie
@@leonet6681 even the Arabs have Egyption blood from their grandmother ( Hager ) the Egyption mother of Ishmeal the father of Arabs but u west African American has No Egyption blood at all So shut up 🤣🤣
Love when people say " If you don't think like me or accept my view you are racist - or antisemitic - or are full of hate". We all have views. Get over it if we don't agree.
- Some say that the “Ten Commandments” was also a fictitious film based on Hebrew delusions. Others, that Jesus was created by the Roman Empire to control the masses. That’s the beauty of human imagination, if it makes us happy, enjoy the fantasy! Reality could sometimes be boring.
Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Elizabeth Taylor portrayed Egyptian royalty? It was okay when "black" history was destroyed/robbed... and here we are...
If someone casted some Asian or White guy as a legendary Mexican figure in history i would be PISSED! Can't really blame Egyptians for feeling insulted. And that actress is instantly becoming more dislikable by calling Egyptians racist for calling out Netflix on their crap.
The arrogance to not admit when one is wrong is the most infuriating thing about all this. Just admit you made a mistake. Jada Pinkett Smith is one of the most toxic celebrities out there today.
Shes an actress aspiring roles for the oscar winning and Hollyweird, they dont care what they do most of them are ignorant, havent even finish school, 🤷🏻♀️ this is an agenda of distraction
Imagine being told you’re racist, wrong and an invader by people who never even set foot nor were born in the continent of Africa, let alone the land of Egypt.
Exactly. The Afrocentrist entitlement is so ridiculous. They think they're above everyone & everything, so they're the only ones allowed to preach & judge.
@@oginatrix2904 - There are two versions of American History, one is The Spanish American version which began in 1492; and the other is the Anglo American History which started in the 1620’s. Most USA (Anglo) historians start in 1620’s; while Spanish America had Universities by that period throughout the two continents (North and South), and opened the path for other Europeans to follow.
I’m an Egyptian and just wanted to say thank you for calling out Netflix for all their nonsense and telling them to apologize to us. Because they should! Thank you so much. You just gained another subscriber.
@jim hardy ancient egyptains may not have been west african black but theyu sertantly wasnt Mediterranean. You can see the anceint Egyptian paintings they are claerly dark brown. Brown east africans. Just like somalians ethipoans and eritreans. This actress looks like a ancient Egyptian or close to it. Poeple are just racist
Exactly!!! That's why the people behind this "documentary" ( propaganda) and some Black people have to call the critic racist, they don't have a Single rational argument, That's why they have to deshumanize the critics with this emotional argument (who are not worth . They are eaten inside by an deep rooted inferiority complex and have to try to impose an historical lie and a false narrative in their quest for power.
Sorry for the other idiot in the comments talking about African Americans in our country but he doesn't know anything because not all of them act like this he's exaggerating and African American people came from the middle east and Africa not just Africa
As a Roman descendant, I can say I stand by the Egyptian and Greek people. This is pure woke washing in its full absurdity and should be considered and treated like the garbage that it is. Let us not infuriate our Ancestors with the false beliefs of the modern day weak who for some reason have been given a voice.
"Racist" is anything they do not like or do not want to accept. Coffee is cold - it is racist. A rainy day is racist. Money lost on the stock market is racist. Parking ticket is racist.
Damn you’d think someone on their end would say “Oops we messed up sorry”but they doubled down and called a whole nation racist and regarded their feelings about their own historical figure’s depiction as irrelevant.
Did you really expect them to react differently? Didn't the Bud Light story teach you anything? They're willing to lose not millions, but billions. Because if they abandon their racist leftist agenda, they'll lose a lot more.
Yes, the whole nation of Egypt is occupied by racist colonizers. The Arabs that occupy Egypt, are just that... Arabs. They are colonizers, not Egyptians.
Assassins Creed had a more accurate Cleopatra
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😂😂 sad a video game is more historically accurate than a “documentary”
Both had tried to sell historicity as their main selling point, one was serious, the other was just joking.
and that is the sad point 🙄
This is an ACTUAL case of cultural appropriation. Re-writing Greek and Egyptian history for the sake of diversity is ridiculous
its never appropriation when minorities do it. their words not mine
@@jefflacey58 it isn’t a flop tho?
jeff lacey yes but there's a difference between changing the appearance/race of the main character of a fictional story. And changing the apperenace and race of a historical figure with multiple pieces of evidence that there change isn't historically accurate. I can support the little mermaid I can't support this cleopatra stuff.
@@SilverWarlock2504 I agree
@@Vaydore as someone who's had to sit through an art history class with a professor who focused on Egyptian history. Let me tell you this documentary would make my professor very sad.
Also I love how she's a British actress trying to change Egyptian history. Like the amount of Egyptian artifacts form ancient Egypt in the British museum is insane. They couldn't stand just having egypts things now they wanna change its history lol
I just love how they're justifying it with "Egypt is a part of Africa". That's like making a movie about Ghandi, but casting him as a Japanese man and defending it with "India is part of Asia"
Ironic how you say this but then go on to call M. Gandhi as "Ghandi", which is as white-washed as the pronunciation can get.
@@sakshikhatavkar3562 what are you on about LOL how do you hear a "white-washed" pronunciation through the screen? Share your superpowers please because I would love to hear comments as voices in my head
@@sakshikhatavkar3562 my man touch some grass💀
@@berriaa I'm assuming they meant that Stuart spelt his name wrong, which is correct technically. :)
@@sakshikhatavkar3562 that’s like saying how Americans say chai tea, when it’s only supposed to be chai, it’s not offending anyone, it’s just a different way to say it, and it’s not like other races don’t call Gandhi just Gandhi, kinda racist to single out white people
Egyptian here. We defend our history, they call us racists! How preposterous ! We are very proud of our history, we defend it as if it’s a living member !
American CRT at play....
I hope you don’t mind that white American woman is right there with you and I support you all the way because this is ridiculous.
Colonizers, only this time historically and culturally
One of the most fascinating histories out there and in my opinion, Egyptians have EVERY RIGHT to feel proud. Netflix are in the business to make money . . . that's their first and their last reason for being. History is theirs to manipulate, judge and profit from any way they can.
I am so pleased your country has reacted the it has. I wish UK had a spine and would call out these travesties.
@@rolfjohansen5376
You mean Jada Smith and ignorant African American? Oh yeah intellectually invaders
Did she just say that racism is a "very modern ideology". WTF?
She did. These people have no clue
Lol right. We are some of the only people in history who have accepted race mixing and accept people of other races in our countries.
She doesn't know what she is talking about.
The fact that It's coming from a BLACK WOMAN is very ironic. Shouldn't she know more about this?-
She's just an entitled brat.
The audacity of the production members to accuse ACTUAL EGYPTIANS of being racists after making this crap.
well , they sure seem to be, but then so do the people who made this movie.
And when the did, I expected a bit more more than "my gran told me Cleopatra was black" as proof that she was in fact black.
That is their standard: projection from losers
This is a result of black jealousy and insecurity towards other races as well as guilt and shame of white liberals. The white liberals fund this garbage and people like Jada Pinkett Smith have no problem blackwashing Egyptian history and then calling anyone who disapproves “racist.”
Truly despicable and disgusting.
CLEOPATRA WAS BLACK
I am Greek and we shares thousands of years with Egypt. This cannot be stolen or changed. We stand with our own history as well as Egyptian history. 🇬🇷 🇪🇬
Greek language and civilisation used to be all over the eastern Roman Empire, and it’s impacts last to this day 🏴❤️🇬🇷
Blackwashing. Im ashamed.
Modern Greek don't have connections with the ancient Greeks hahaha
@@warrioroflight3489 yes they do, the same land (minus Anatolia) has been inhabited by the Greeks since forever
@@Hoaxe72 modern Greek are created by Europe they had nothing to do with the ancient Greeks
"I don't care what they tell you in school, XXX is black." is such a powerful scientific statement for a documentary film.
I opened the documentary. Heard it and closed the series and never touched it again
😂😂😂😂
I mean, we don't know if george washington was really white. He could've been black. That's the logic they're using. You can have your own opinions, but not your own facts
I mean, technically XXX is Black, cause Ice Cube was XXX at one point.
I just imagnie someone saying "I don't care what they tell you in school, Adolf Hitler is black." XD
You need a special level of entitlement to appropriate an entire culture for your own political agenda and then call them racist when they call you out on B.S
Like white people have done for centuries??? 😂 The hypocrisy is mind-numbing
Greece should be especially offended as well. They still possess highly homogenous modern day DNA profiles indicated in numerous conducted studies and academic papers.
Cleo was of Alexandrian Greek aristocracy that ruled over Egypt in those ancient times.
They intermarried within their dynasty, so no chance of foreign assimilation.
So much for the Nubian angle. Greeks therefore should also be racist to this ... "CLASSIST".
They get away with it in the US with 0 consequences, why wouldn't they take it across the world?
This post coming from a race that convinced the world that Jesus was a blonde haired blued eyed white man...GTFOH.
And they say they are an oppressed minority still. Give me a break.
I like how she goes "Egypt is racist" and then is racist to Egyptians by generalizing them and saying they don't understand modern racism.
And that’s why people have been trying to point out the red flags of some modern anti-racism movements, with the idea that those from stigmatized groups can’t also stigmatize other peoples.
'that's racist'
Just because they are famous actors dosen't make them intelligent, they always think they have something important to say but most of the time is just nonsense like this, the problem is that most people take wathever nonsense they say at face value
which is even funnier when you know cleopatra wasn't even an egyptian she was greek. After the conquest of egypt by Alexander all Pharao were greek not even egyptian XD
"modern racism" = if you don't agree with me you're racist
She’s using the famous argument “black people cant be racist”. Jada Smith also said “despite what history teaches us, Cleopatra was black”.
I cancelled this "Documentary"
Because she was. A colonizer is a colonizer regardless of where they colonized. The Arabs you see in Egypt are colonizers.
Jada is just a clown
@@isaiah7979 You made me laugh, the Arabs are a half-Semitic, half-Coptic dynasty.. Colonization is something that the dominant civilizations have done since God created the earth and those on it.
@@isaiah7979 Marther Luther King was white. Barack Obama was white. You've been taught your history wrong sir
As a black person, I’m absolutely disgusted with this documentary. I’ve heard so many black people tell me this lie and I never believed it especially when there is also literal genetic evidence showing that Cleopatra WASNT BLACK. I’m so sick of the black people who claim that she’s black when that’s simply not the case. We have our own African historical figures who were actually very influential to history but Netflix doesn’t care about them, they just want to be part of the go woke, go broke campaign. Shame on the actress for calling all of Egypt racist when this documentary would inevitably backfire, shame on Netflix for allowing such garbage to be streamed on their already bad platform and shame on the people who actually backed this documentary as well. Stop rewriting history for your woke agenda!
I give her props for not only being a british woman and doing a documentary without consulting any Egyptian historian, but also have the balls to actually call an ENTIRE COUNTRY racist about their own history.
That takes a whole universe of delusion right there.
Not Elizabeth Taylor but Jada, go figure...
She a lost and confused
It gives me such " i know what is best for you" and narcsistic vibes
@@etnomadaul you keep commenting this and the people liking your comment, as well as you, are stupid. That is all. There is a difference between a documentary claiming that the entire Egyptian history is wrong based on an African Americans made up history about a country she has no ethnic background ties to, and a movie with no claims to any historical truths to it. You’re not a very good troll. But props for trying!
@@kennethverona25 shes not lost or confused.
She just wants to intentionally re-write history and find some "strange".... That is with her son's friend.
What the actress needs to understand is that no one is affended by HER skin colour. They're affected by Cleopatra's depiction as a black woman. This is just so absurd like girl you're not that important lol
It's not just that she's black. It's that she acts like a freaking millennial and thinks that's how Cleopatra used to be
That statement just showed what she is like. Arrogant, ignorant and borderline narcissistic.
@@marioluigi9599 Generation wars are even sillier then this documentary
i think I can believe that some twisted people do attack her bc her skin color. We see people attacked ariel actor and insult their skin color by calling her racial slur.
But I do agree that she just focusing on that only, not the other opinion that called out that this movie is ignorance.
Although, imo the blame should be on the writer, or the director who has a say on this movie. Completely garbage.
@@TelurGoreng-vb3tr Nobody’s calling Halle Bailey racial slurs.
British explorers stole many Egyptian artifacts, and now a British woman stole Cleopatra's identity and called Egyptians racist 💀
The fact that they used mummies as medicine is somehow hilarious for me. On the other hand, at least nowadays, the British Museum looks after historical artefacts are looked after very well.
'Explorers' lol, how about 'marauders'?
Any real history lover knows how the city of Alexandria got its name. This guy is either a Fraud or Racist. don't believe anything this guy says.
where's the bri'ish self destruct button?
you don't get it, she is not a white British woman, it doesn't count! 🤡
I'm here being ironic, but I'm pretty sure this is exactly how she thinks.
“You all mad at this? Then why don’t I see you mad at the mummy movies”
that was fiction
Facts. They never called themselves a "documentary" or claimed they were trying to be historically accurate. They were trying to be fun action movies. That's it.
boy they are gonna lose their balls when they see Jet-Li resurrect a whole ass army and control elements of nature.
@@emperordragon1794 No they're not because a fun movie is a fun movie, not a self declared "documentary".
You know, a "documentary", being a production using FACTS, not FICTION.
They weren't pegged as documentaries.
Yea pretty much. Nobody ever said. "Abbot and Costello should be more realistic" when the whole point of their monster movies is they were ridiculous and campy.
She has the audacity to call the egyptians for defending their history but yet she's appropriating egyptian history. What a hypocrisy!
She works for blackrock so no big surprise
when ever you don't agree with them ,you become racist......
Do as I say not as I do.
@@enterprisedavidcain Wdym?
@@CT--jv2ur the reason everything is so woke Is a company called blackrock, investors that only work with companies that does woke. Look them up. They are so powerful that they are the fourth branch of government
I can't believe she is accusing the Egyptians who are defending their history, of being racist. This is absolutely ridiculous. The amount of entitlement is sickening. I don't trust any documentaries from Netflix. You can't just change history and expect people not to be mad about it. 🤦♀️
Let's make a documentary on Martin Luther King, Bob Marley, Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali as white or Arab men .
Or about the oppression of the Mexican or Chinese or Arab people that came to America as slaves 5 centuries ago in the slave Atlantic trades
She must not have interacted with any Egyptians while filming as they have quite a range of skin tones, including much darker than her own. It's a bizarre statement for her to say that they feel threatened because of her skin tone.
HELLO DONT BELIEVE EGYPTIANS THEY ARE JUST YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE WASHED BY EUROPE AND MIDDLE EAST
YEARS AGO SO EGYPTIANS KEEP TRYING TO SAY THAT THEY ARE WHITE FROM A LONG TIME AGO
WHEN THE ONLY REAL EGYPTIANS LOOKING ARE THE KNE WHO ARE BROWN SKIN COLOR IN CAIRO OR SOUTH KF EGYPT
.....WHAT IS RACIST ABOUT SPEAKING THE FACTS OF HISTORY ....... EGYPTIANS😅😅😅ARE BEING LIKE RUSSIANS WHEN SOMEONE WHO IS LIVING IN RUSSIA AND SAYS RUSSIANS ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE SOCIAL MEDIA SAYS AND RUSSIANS SAY THE SAME BRAINWASHING SHIT AS HOW EGYPTIANS ARE DOING ABOUT THE COLOR OF SKIN THEY HAVE IN THE ANCIENT HISTORY
I'm Egyptian by passport by the way
All those YtEgyltians are is left behind Romans
As an Egyptian from Alexandria, we are in disbelief!! All we have left as Alexandrians is the history of our city and we are watching it being commandeered by the Afro-centrist movement there are. There are 50 African counties and countless old empires with their own unique history!! Leave ours alone !
To add to your point, Africa has many female kings in their history with some of them even had conflicts with Rome.
@@hang_kentang6709 Yes, there was also one king who had an army of women warriors. Now that would make a very good documentary
@@firebyrd437 Except he also indulged in [as in made his fortune from] capturing and selling his fellow Africans into slavery. I think they did actually make something about this country/king/female army but changed the FACTS to FICTION in order to suit their narrative there as well.
Sound familiar???????????????????????
@@firebyrd437 you mean the same country that the movie Women King is about?
Wasent cleopatra Greek technically? Or from a greek Dynasty
Ok…so I am an American living in Egypt since 2017…this “fake”umentary almost made us get Netflix banned in the whole country!!!!
1:53 she needs to understand that racism isn’t hating on black people. Racism is thinking less of a certain group of people because of their skin, heritage, ethnicity, nationality etc, which she is so very much doing.
Alas, most will never understand such definitions.
Blm😂
Actually racism is directly against race xenophobia is against ethnicity but you’re combing from the right place.
The black people cant be racist mentality. LOL
@@seandavey8360 So pretty much what OP said lol.
Imagine rewriting their actual history and erasing their cultural identity then calling them racist defending their culture.
Yeah... American antics don't work over there... They've seen what happens when that type of thought process is allowed to take foothold and they aint havin it.
Insanity
That's western for you😂
It doesn't surprise me. They are trying to do this with Scandinavians and Romans/Italians too.
@@troybaxter Wait are they fr trying to say all Scandinavians were black too?
What’s low key sad is that the actress seems to believe she got there due to some kind of merit, when in fact she was hired exactly for her skin color. They don’t even hide how purposeful this was. For traction.
💯💯💯
She was hired for her resemblance to that incurable narcissist Jada Pinkett
@@nineteenfortyeight she’s probably sucking the life force out of her kid’s friends, as we speak.
It is not the actress’s fault to be casted as Cleopatra, but it is her own fault to insult Egyptian people and call them racists!
This is what annoys me about calls for the next James Bond to be black, or when Nexflix made King Arthur black . They don't want the actors to get the part because they are best suited for it, just for their skin colour. It is nothing but patronising.
Its a common psychotic condition these days for groups of people to aggressively elbow and crowbar their way into other peoples spaces while completely viewing themselves as the victim. Its truly absurd and evil.
America has become a very socially molesting culture. No matter who a person is, there are at least some circles where their ass simply does not belong!
"THESE DAYS"??? brother that's been a thing for a damn while lmao
They cry out in pain as they strike. Capisce?
I don’t blame the Egyptians for being angry over this. The world is getting tired to this victimology.
But it not black people pushing this. We did hire the cast or anything
Meanwhile the movie was made by a bunch of white Americans. I am African American and I never even heard of this film coming out. I don’t know anyone who watched it or cared about it’s production. It sucks that white liberals do these things for their own agendas and then people think all African Americans want this. I think a lot of people in the comments just secretly hate black Americans and are jumping for an excuse to complain. Black media outlets have not promoted the film, no one cares about cleopatra because she is not a part of our history.
@@tobiasgriffin What are you on about? African Americans LOVE this Afrocentric nonsense.
@@tobiasgriffindelusional.
Yu-Gi-Oh is a more accurate representation of Egypt than this.
They blackfaced Cleopatra, and then the actress called the egyptian people fighting back racist. That is the _definition_ of being racist.
Cleopatra was from Greek and Persian heritage. She defiantly wasnt black, even though she was born in Egypt.
She was descended from Ptolemy I Soter , and she married her brother - There are Greek statues of them all … and they have zero African features or heritage.
This is a blatant attempt to blackwash history.
@@JDAfricawhile cleopatra was likely lighter skinned Egypt definitely had people with dark skin including many Pharos throughout history and depending on who was occupying it.
@@vikzn1607 But all talk is about Cleopatra. Nobody said that Egypt didn't have dark-skinned people. It's just said that Cleopatra was looking more like a Greek than Egyptian
@@vikzn1607 no most were Egyptian and brown and middle eastern not sub saharan African.
RIGHT!
I remember my grandmother telling me "I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was a Chinese male."
Shelley P. Haley PROFESSOR of Africana Studies at Hamilton College New York⁉️
@@hellepost1439the credentials of the person speaking are kind of irrelevant when they are spewing historically false facts 🤷♀️
haha you made me laugh out loud! 🤣
Cleopatra was Molan??????
This is gold 👌 thank you for the comedic relief
I'm Italian, I attended liceo classico while I was in high school, and the amount of bullsh*t I had to listen about Greek and Roman culture and history according to this miniseries is beyond absurdity.
They do realize Cleopatra was an actual person, right? It's not like trying to make Spider-Man black, this is history not entertainment. I swear Jada would've played the role herself if her ego were just a bit bigger
Like Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, or Yul Brynner as Ramses, or Keanu Reeves as a Samurai?!?!
@@etnomadaul Keanu Reeves plays a person of mixed descent (Japanese and European) in that film, other two examples are from 1960s. Yul Brynner wasn't white but Siberian and Elizabeth Taylor was racially closer to real Cleopatra than actress Netflix used. To claim Cleopatra was black is equally stupid as to claim Lincoln was a Cherokee
@@etnomadaul
Do u know the difference Between fictional movies and documentary?
Haravaiti, facts.
@@etnomadaul Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in the 60s was not right. But to have another actress in the opposite end of the spectrum to represent Cleopatra in 2023 is also not right. Did I say 60s? If anything, Macedonian Greek would probably look more European like Liz Taylor than black.
Calling Queen Cleopatra a documentary is like calling the Flintstones a documentary.
@@andyyoung5972 No, especially when the Flintstones broke the space time continuum by celebrating Christmas more than a few million years before the birth of Christ.
@@mstevens94 truly one of the best documentaries out there
@@RUTHLESSambition5
Delusions do not make facts but nice try .
Yesterday you were a apple cause I said you were
Wait… so walking cars didn’t exist!?!?
@@RUTHLESSambition5 😂 exactly.
Netflix: “Cleopatra was Black…”.
Egypt: “No she wasn’t…”.
Netflix: “Why do you care about race so much Egypt?”.
This comment made me laugh because it’s an accurate summary and it’s funny. Thanks. This whole thing has been really getting on my nerves so it’s nice to read a comment that makes me smile. Thank you.
Because she was black. The original Egyptians were black, the people who are mad are the colonizers of Egypt. You don't get to steal people's history because you colonized them.
@@isaiah7979 By that logic everyone in the United States/Canada is Aboriginal. Lol. You know the Greeks colonized Egypt too and Cleopatra was a member of that monarchy, right?
@@isaiah7979 looooool ok bro
@@michaelhill6451 Colonized people tend to identify with their colonizer after a time. Black people in Haiti call themselves French. Her having proximity to the Greeks does not change the fact that she was a negro.
The thing is, if this is not considered a "documentary", ppl would have just be like "nay another lousy movie" and look past it warning ppl to not believe it thats all. Maybe just take the aesthatic in this and admire colors thats all.
But! the fact that they state this is a documentary and has the audacity to not follow through the real history nor have any input about it from the egypt country and is still being disrespectful to them just doubly disgusting of them.
Next Hollywood is going to make a motion picture about George Washington's life and Will Smith will play George, gotta love these modern times of Cultural appropriation and reparations
The main problem is they claim this a "documentary" while falsely claiming the entire Egyptian history. THAT, is racism
They've reached the point of absolute delusional. There's no way to stop them but the Egyptian people.
exactly! I don't think the backlash would be this bad had they just not called it a documentary. They could have just called it historical fiction because that's exactly what it is.
Getting outrage every time a black actor gets an important role, THAT, is racism.
@@crissyt7015 More like ahistorical fact.
Facts can be proven. So where is the proof that Cleopatra was black? She descended from a line of Macedonian Greeks who wanted to keep the dynasty “pure” through inbreeding with their own siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews. If a couple of Europeans who are biologically related to each other bang each other, you think a black baby is coming out of that vagina?
Did she say that racism was a “very modern ideology?” How is it even possible to know so little about the past?
Typical woke Marxist praxis to reset historical facts to assist enforcement of current ideology. The current woke interpretation of racism is quite new, so the praxis is to present the new version as having always been true.
This is a concept that George Orwell dealt with a lot in 1984:
“The past was alterable ... Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
"Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past… The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."
That shit made me wheeze
She is daft, arrogant and ignorant of facts. The political groups with agendas (whatever left or right) love those kind of people.
yeah that was a good one. i smiled. my great great grandfathers in the dutch east indies be like, am i a joke to you?
she just displayed a typical modern fem speech.
Saying racism is a fairly new ideology instantly undermines anything else that woman says lmao
America created racism 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎💪💪💪💪
Fr. She said that and I was like, "the delusion this lady must live in everyday."
@Ahnjoemama I get the impression that the extent of her historical knowledge is centered around the Atlantic slave trade
Well... Racism as an ideology based off eugenics is fairly modern. What we understand as race is fairly new. Different ethnicities, and even different clans within that ethnicity, would maybe have been seen as different 'races'
@@sigurdjensen195 but racism itself is not a new ideology or practice regardless of how the understanding of race has evolved
The way she called racism a modern ideology just showcases how much she victimizes herself
What’s hilarious is her trying to make all the backlash about her skin tone while refusing to acknowledge that her skin tone is the only reason she got the role 😂
The ridiculousness of Hollywood these days is astounding !!
😜😜😜😜😂🤣💯😜😂🤣
LOL soo true!
Great point
I don't think it was your skin tone, honey, it was what was coming out of your mouth...
Her saying “Egypt is racist” while being racist herself by stealing an Egyptions identity, just shows how black people can get away racism themselves by simply pulling the black card. Absolutely disgusting
Completely agree, It’s getting out of hand now! I know anyone could do this, but it’s mostly minorities and yes, it is mostly black people. Using the ‘race card’ as an excuse for their shitty behaviour and people are too scared to call them out in fear of being called a racist by mindless morons who can’t think critically. It absolves them of all accountability for their actions, and what’s worse is that it works. Furthermore, I bet you it’s those same people who bang on the most about white privilege. These people are actually perverting the true meaning of racism and giving it a new meaning to what it actually means, and it’s extremely disrespectful to those who have suffered from real racism.
They hate themselves so much that they have to be victims or their whole life is meaningless. It's the fight of a lifetime. It unknowingly causes more issues. Not just with self issues, but with other people outside their group. It's pretty sad stuff all around. It's a pretty common occurrence to call out "racism" when things don't go their way. They want to be a victim.. Who in the right mind wants to be victimized to that? It's insane. A LITTLE note for the sensitive people out there. No, I'm not claiming all African descendants are like this. It's "mostly" western African descendants.
@@CallMeMatt0🤡
@@jeffthealpacaisyourdad385 stop looking into a mirror man, you are going to be sad
FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They deliberately excluded any Egyptian actors or staff. They essentially made a pseudo "Docu" with British and American actors. And when Egyptians point that out, they label THEM racist.
The sheer audacity, these people are pathetic. It`s them that should be "canceled" for trying to blackface history and brainwashing audiences.
Remember, the people accusing the Egyptians of being racist for standing up to this absolute mockery of what documentaries are supposed to be, are the same ones that called out Night at the Museum for casting Rami Malek as an Egyptian Pharaoh because he wasn't black, completely ignorant of the fact the guy is actually Egyptian.
@@SpartanMikey Wait fr? That’s so insane 💀
@@SpartanMikey and a Coptic nonetheless
That's just stupid
@@SpartanMikey i remembered that issue, and it was the most amazing thing that i have ever witnessed 😂😂😂
“All men care about is power”
Who poisoned who’s brother??👀
I'm an Egyptian, and my father is a tour guide who's spent his whole life studying and giving lectures about Egyptian history; he's really passionate about it, and I grew up listening to him telling me brief parts of our history.
When he saw this he was SOOOOO MAD - see, if it was just some kid's cartoon misinterpreting Egyptian history and customs/culture out of ignorance, which I'm sure you CAN find somewhere on the internet, it wouldn't even bother us, hasn't bothered us for years. Not a lot of Egyptians are all that involved in western media drama and politics.
But this was just going TOO far. My father said he felt like it was done with bad intentions. He and I were straight up laughing at the incredulity, the audaciousness of that "documentary".
I literally live RIGHT NEXT TO THE PYRAMIDS 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And then I hear or read about some bullshit about how I, as an Egyptian, "don't know my own history" and "my country is full of racist people who were originally black people invaded by Arabs and westerners so we're invaders".
WOW that made me so mad - I'M NOT OFFENDED BY THE ACTRESS' SKIN COLOUR, MY FATHER IS DARK-SKINNED OKAY
I'M OFFENDED BY THE MALICIOUS REWRITING OF A PART OF OUR HISTORY, THENNNN BKAMING US WHEN WE GET OFFENDED
and MAN does this BLATANT gaslighting and misrepresentation make my blood boil
But thank you for pointing out how atrocious this documentary was
👍👍👍
Sorry, but so many were miseducated. it is not his fault. The truth about history is coming and you better prepare for it.
also, you may even have ancestors who were arabs conquering Egypt, but so what? It’s not like the arabs came in, slaughtered everyone and colonized the land. They became the rulers, but most of the population remained roman and/or native egyptian. The two groups just mixed with each other through time. Egyptians can claim descent from 3 great historical civilizations: the arabs, the romans and the native egyptians. One doesn’t cancel the others!!!
Really glad to see Egypt fight for its heritage
Christopher Columbus pirate
@@EdrethMaximus
Listen to your self
Arabs in Egypt ducomented to be 5 ro 50k max
Egypt was 4 million at the time
So mixing mot even that much
They changed her race, changed her style, changed her whole personality!! Cleopatra was not a “i’ll die for my country”, she became a ruler because of her intelligence, she manipulated people with her beauty, she was very cunning and smart
Also a noble, and the nobles of the time were not soft-hearted people, well at least not the ones that survived
She was showering in slaves' blood, and the movie tells she has said that "I will die for Egypt" like lmao
Yep, they turned her into a generic modern day girl boss. Barf.
she wasn't as beautiful as people think she is. Everyone was seduced by her wits, not her looks.
@@NycmanTheNicestOfMenwas about to say this, Cleopatra wasent actually beautiful. Since there were a lot of inbreeding going on 😅
She labels us as being racist while being completely blind about the fact that they are mocking Egyptian culture and history
This is most likely her believing in the lie only white people can be racist. She plays the race card to quickly as it is all she has.
"If my show flops it must be due to the fact I'm black"
Way to go, you want people to not see you for your race and then use your race at every opportunity. Hypocrit!
@@thieverytreeThat's Hollywood for you.
You’re Egyptian?!
It's not even about skin colour, can anyone picture Caesar or Anthony fall head over heels for this version of Cleopatra? Coins minted during Cleopatra's reign depict her with a prominent nose, a strong chin, and deep-set eyes. There you go ...
The racism card being used over and over again has ruined the word racism. It has no meaning anymore. “I’m black and I failed, and you call out my failures, that means you’re racist!!” It’s gross and it’s such a damn cop out..
CLEOPATRA WAS BLACK
@@etruscancivilization Proof?
@@royalhistorian5109 It’s a bot
@@Kazasia-_- Just report them.
No it never lost its meaning. Only difference is now it’s also a hint who is actually racist, and hypocrite at the same time.
Ironic; blackwashing actress calling everyone racist. 😆😆😆
We live in a world where blackwashing history is called "stunning and brave."
@@avengersprime5431 Where did I see that before?!?!🤔
@@avengersprime5431 no we don’t that’s only in your little world in your head
Also typical
Don’t make the black kids angry
“I remember my Grandmother saying to me ... I don’t care what they teach you at school, Cleopatra was black.” Granny off her meds again
I shouldn’t admit to finding mental health problems amusing ... but, gee, I had a good laugh at your comment. 🤭
@wilf-ou6jg And education lol
I'm sorry, sweetie, granny lied.
The Fact that she calls herself a historian is disgraceful.
If people can't see how racist that is, image if someone says "I remember my Grandmother saying to me ... I don’t care what they teach you at school, Martin Luther King was white"
They didn’t add any Egyptian experts because the Egyptians experts know cleopatra wasn’t black
the biggest issue i have with this is it being labled as a documentary
Exactly! If it was advertised as just oh look we’re gonna just make a new story or this is a mocumentary that’s one thing. I dislike that they wanted to seem authentic when it was the complete opposite. That being said documentary’s don’t even have to tell the truth to be considered such. Which is also really dumb
How tf.
Cleopatra was Greek, that’s the worst part.
They did this earlier, they have/had a documentary about the search for an ancient highly developed society which influenced allegedly influenced other societies all around the world. The story was told like a conspiracy theory, heavily generalizing and not mentioning facts which don't fit the narrative. I watched it and also read articles about it afterwards and it became pretty obvious this show was complete bs, but the damage was done.
If it wasn't labeled a documentary I wouldn't really care
I don't care much either way because we all know it's not accurate, it's just weird and not interesting lol
As an egyptian, I can properly say that these people have essentially "blackwashed" our culture, and intentionally falsified my nation's history. I sincerely hope that one day my culture gets the respect it deserves.
Even Yugioh did better
ThAtS bEcAuSe YoU'rE rAcIsT!
How dare you to criticise, they will know better because they know the history of black people. And black people are the only the ones who can reallllly understand racism and they are so oppressed. I'm sarcastic. I am sorry for you guys, the problem is the reach of this show and there might actually be some people believing in it. But Netflix just wants attention/views they don't really care about actual history, it's not their first time to publish such bs.
@haemmertime no no no. You are all wrong! my grandmother told me this documentary is absolutely legit
@@Lothien32😂😂
As an Italian I can say I would be very perplexed If they make a film about Ancient Rome with a total black cast just to prove a point. We're living in crazy times.
Dont forget to label it as "documentary"😂
Yea cuz everyone hates black ppl. The fact that Rome actually had a Black Emporer & someone decided to make a movie from it would pass you off is racist asf.
Lol maybe if it was based around Sicily
@@firdaus99031 and lash out when the locals call the bs.
Where was that energy when Gods of Egypt starred white actors? I dont support this Cleopatra but the h y p o c r i s y is astounding
As a Greek person, I find it appalling that they seem to believe that completely erasing the fact that Cleopatra was Greek is inclusive. No nationality should have priority when it comes to inclusivity. Greek people, Egyptian people and all of the other nationalities should all ne shown in media, none of them should be erased because you can make money off of having black people or white people in your film.
How about the black Achilles?
Horrible woman playing the black card when she and the producers are in the wrong.
Yeah I've seen her twitter, she's very b*tchy there 😅
TheBlacks SCREAM about "cultural appropriation", yet
Did you know that CornRows were appropriated in 25,000ish BC from Upper Paleolithic (France)? The were found in 3000 BC (BC+ Before CHRIST) Sahara which is/was Arabic. Later found THROUGHOUT the Middle East around 4-5th century BC. Cornrows didn't make it to the Caribbean until 1920's, about 200 years AFTER the British ended slavery. They hit the US in the 1990s
So Cornrow, Cleopatra and Shopping Carts full of Cheap trendy fashions from Walmart are ALL
Things stolen by Black folk
It seems all the afrocentric loonies do this all the time in the USA and other races cant hold them responsible for anything or they get branded as racist!
CLEOPATRA WAS BLACK.
Who is really wrong here? . I do however agree it would have been better if someone of indigenous Egyptian descent was included
I am half Egyptian (with family from Egypt) and I cannot tell you how much this disturbs me. Hollywood consistently pushes the diversity agenda, but I could probably count on one hand the amount of Egyptian representation on Hollywood’s screen nowadays. And on one of the few times that it wants to represent anything Egyptian they have to go and completely erase, rewrite, and then gaslight us!!! I honestly don’t see how this made it pass Netflix, further more, I don’t see how POC are actually going along with this (considering how much they had to fight for representation) AND are actually being racist towards us!!! I am genuinely baffled
There is no ethics with revisionists, only agendas.
They never cared about "representing" anyone. It's all just a massive ruse so they can label anyone who dares to criticize them as "racist" (not that that word means anything anymore).
To be gaslit you need to believe YOU are insane because of their bullshit! When we all know it is they who are insane! Just keep ignoring them!
I'm East Asian, and I give my support to Egyptians on this. Hollywood has appropriated our rich cultures and histories for decades now, and when we call them out, they play victim and call us "racist". The audacity to call us "racist" for calling them out for re-rewriting our own histories, our own cultures who contributed greatly to the world. They can't seem to comprehend that we are the ancestors of these great civilizations they read in history books. It's self-righteous of them to think that they can steal the legacies without hearing our voices. It's time to protect our heritage, our culture from these westerners. They're doing the same thing their ancestors are doing hundreds of years ago by stealing our ancestors' artifacts, lands, culture, and stories, in this time instead of the British Museum, they send them to Hollywood to get appropriated and Americanized. Your Asian brothers are with you in this fight.
Well thank you Egypt for the many celebrities we DID have and do have.
As an American, I am so glad people are calling out this BS. I can't stand it anymore it's ridiculous.
it’s killing me living in philly which is so liberal it’s killing us j look at k&a it’s much more than j tarnishing history although that is j the beginning
Yeah, you can't stand it and many others it seems and yet you are all silent where it matters most.
I cant believe the most spoiled group of Africans in the world are still not happy.
As a Mexican American, I am super glad Egypt stood up to this neo liberal bs. They also tried to do this to Meso American history, saying Olmecs were ___ . Now they also say that the Blue eyed gene from Central Asia that found its way into ireland, also comes from them, so Irish are really ___ according to them - based on CHEDDAR MAN.
Mainstream 'experts' Academia ( Neo Liberal Propoganda) also needs to be put in check because they also feed into this propoganda.
In the u.k we've had a black anne boleyn and you can't get much whiter than her it's about time these fools started crediting their own historic characters instead of stealing others.
Imagine if you saw some unknown actress talk smack about the very country you live in and say "Oh everything you learned is false even though there's more scientific and research evidence" and claim you are in the wrong about your own country. I'd be pissed.
Black Americans are pulling that crap now with indigenous groups from the Americas.
Well, they couldn't include actual Egyptian people because they don't look black and that blows up the false narrative they are trying to weave.
Yep
they can;t standn it when a muslim country is fair tbh I refuse to say white
there are a lot of black egyptians, they call them boabs
@@mrlesta define black
@@DinoAlberini look like Africans. Plenty arabs look African.
There were no Egyptian actors, because they don't consider us Egyptians. And her thinking We're threatened by her skin tone is as ridiculous as her documentary.
That's because she's one of those absolute moronic afrocentric conspiracy theorist racist : listen to them and EVERYBODY (with worth of course) was black!
Egyptians? Black.
Jews? Black.
Romans? they're evil so, white of course.
Those people are absolute morons and actually intensely hateful and racist.
They need to be ridiculed at every opportunity.
@Anon Ymous But hes literally egyptian it doesnt matter if ur skin color is very light skinned your still a egyptian
@Anon Ymous those are disgusting racists
Cleopatra was Greek Macedonian anyway
I have once heard a black person who said they can never be racist. Appears to me they feel absolutely entitled to be racist themselves.
What a CRAZY notion for blacks to think that. I hear it regularly! And they are the MOST RACIST of all people!
They can be assholes though
He makes it sound like hating black people is justified
There is one black person that I talked to over the phone, and he was preaching about anti rascism etc. When I told him i’m Asian, he said very racists things about me being Asian 🤦🏻♀️
@@lft3636 oh my days ikr. I saw this video about racism where black and Latino people were forming a barrier blocking white and Asian students from getting to class, using violence and insults to prevent them from getting the education they paid for. They were apparently ‘peaceful protesting’ about racism or something the delusion is actually scary
As an American and lover of history, especially Classical history, we don't claim this "documentary." Most of us aren't as insanely retarded as the world thinks we are.
As an Egyptian, all I can say is that it is a new low. It's like robbing someone's house and getting upset that they don't like it AND they take you to court for it. Yes, we Egyptians discriminate against thieves!
I cant take American woke culture seriously at all! they are so dumb. I know American schools were lacking but not this bad and embrassaing lol
According to blacks in America.. They invented everything.. They were first in everything.. Everything was stolen from them.. If you don't agree, you're racist
Their kind are good at these kinds of things.
@@tukayz254 Is it wrong for blacks to erase the influence of any race on their culture?
@Delft Fietser is it wrong for white people to erase the influence of any race on their culture?
The fact she laughed At Egypts issue and calls racism Is halirious because of the irony
I don’t want to generalise but it’s became a very common trend amongst western blacks to call people racist whilst inadvertently being extremely racist
She just blew her entire career. Dumb, she is!
How to act like a retarded person 101
Lesson 1: Whenever you're backed into a corner, you can use the race card to avoid engaging in the debate because you're too ignorant to make a valid argument.
@@Azoria4yea same I seen it even though I'm a tan guy. Not even white. I see so much racism being normalized against white people
It is racism. The ancient Egyptians were black and the black Egyptians are still there. They were forced into the northern region by their conquerors but they are still there. A group of colonizers trying to steal history is absolutely racist.
Imagine improperly portraying a racial group in history, then calling them racist
Both things can be true at the same time Einstein
@@BRANDONMALVEAUX-v6cNo?
If we suddenly had a movie about the holocaust, and all the (mostly) German and Polish Jews were portrayed of black ethnicity or, to make it even more clear, of even a whole another religious belief, would you also say that it is racist for today’s Jews to speak up, that this movie would be an absolute hilarious, misleading and reality-defying joke?
I don’t think so.
Kleopatra was from a Makedon Dynasty after Philipp II. and Alexander took over the world. She was from the Dynasty of the Successor Ptolemaios. So for this period MOST importantly you take to account Historians of Hellinism and Archaeologists of Greek and Mediterranean Archaeology ‼️
That period is not classical Egyptiology ‼️ Take to account, that there is many different periods!
And learn History you Imbeciles❗️
She certainly had greek blood in greatest amount, if not completely!
@@BRANDONMALVEAUX-v6c if if that was the case in this situation, which it’s not, they didn’t even portray the events correctly, like this man said, almost every scene had 0 to no evidence or historical proof to back it up, it’s clear you didn’t watch the video in the first place, so you shouldn’t have a say in anything in this comment section. Also, that’s like saying it’d be ok for an actress that is white to portray Martin Luther King jr
"Everything has been whitewashed, it is so wrong. There should be diversity.." - Those who then proceed to:
-Blackwash.
-Strong Woman wash.
-etc.
Even "The Mummy" (Brandon Frasier version) has a BUNCH of Arab and Egyptian-looking people in it, as was the main antagonist. Brandon and family being white was explained and it was a multi-racial cast.
Brilliant point. Even 'The (fictional) Mummy' was more respectful of Egypt culture and ethnicity.
@@constantius4654 Nope because the Ancient Egyptians were black and brown people
@@KemetledAfrica go away, trol!
@@KemetledAfrica nice joke
White casting as Egyptians don’t really matter too since both look similar as long as the white person isn’t a blonde hair blue eye
If you are black, you can call anyone racist if they don’t agree with you. It’s the perfect get out card
they are making it to be like so. Unfortunately.
The funny thing is that this actually happens😂
Feeling entitle
Arab is not a race. Now what?
It's like a cheat code when you don't have intellect.
Documentaries are meant to be based on facts. These shows are made not for the purpose of diversity!
Exactly! Calling Cleopatra an African queen is as misleading as calling Elon Musk an African billionaire. They're both descendants of European families that settled in African countries. Ignoring this erases history.
CLEOPATRA WAS BLACK
@@etruscancivilization She was of macadonian and Greek descent with Iranian also mixed in. She was not black.
In Cleopatra’s era, black people were slaves in Egypt , not nobles, certainly not royalty!
@@etruscancivilizationtell your grandmother that part
I read the title, first of all; huh?? Racist??? As an actual Egyptian who quite literally has lived in Egypt and has their grandmother's house next to the pyramids, I say that we are *NOT* being racist, we are protecting our history. This just makes me angry to my core. I don't wanna say something that I might regret but this lady is just not in the right.
I remember my grandmother telling me "I dont care what they tell you, Cleopatra was in fact a He 111H-6 Bomber with blue wings and without wheels."
Omg I should make a documentary out of this vital and completely true information
Cleo also was gender fluid, depending on who she had to seduce.
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. Even if you did, you have no right to contradict the lived experience of countless He bombers.
The unanimous opinion of He-centric revisionist historians is that Cleopatra was only missing only the tail wheel.
Completely false. My grandma said Cleopatra was an attack helicopter.
My Grandma says that Cleopatra was a Dido Class Light Cruiser of the British Royal Navy
Another instance of "some minority can't be racist towards another group because they themselves experience racism"
You can't "Cancel out" racism. That's not how it works.
Same message blacks get everyday that if you don't have something, just steal it.
Yes I’m sure Adele James experiences racism daily in her pseudoelitist acting echo chamber
Blacks are usually the most racist race of people because they always see and identify themselves as different in that way. So it often doesn't matter how you view them because it's impossible to identify a person with their personality who chooses instead to identify themselves by race.
Frr...It hits differently (in a negative way) when it’s done from a marginalized poc group to another exactly poc marginalized group. Like. You’d expect them to understand and do better
So according to this one "historian" all men care about is power, because women in power never fight for control and influence. I wonder how she feels about Queen Elizabeth I of England and her regional rival Mary Stuart of Scotland trying to one up each other, with Elizabeth coming out on top. Yet Mary still plotted against her to topple her captor, while ended with her losing her head.
And she (obviously) doesn't know that Cleopatra had her own sister, Arsinoe, murdered because she was a possible threat to her power.
@@lisboah i mean i’m surprised they didn’t know that because they even put it in the docu series 😂 this whole thing is just an absolute train wreck
@@phizzy123 Probably because it would ruin their image of Cleopatra.
I should also point out that Cleopatra ordering the death of her own sister wasn't even the most shocking part. After all, siblings of a royal family killing each other was normal throughout history.
No, the shocking part was that Arsinoe had been given sanctuary in a temple, and yet Cleopatra had her murdered inside. Murder inside a temple was sacrilege back then.
@Anteros1966 Wars being caused has nothing to do with gender, race or religion. Wars occur because of humans.
Ah yes! Elizabeth 1, England's first queer Queen of Colour.........😂
It's not a documentary. It's a propaganda piece, pure and simple.
"I remember my Grandmother saying to me..."
Yeah, dementia is a horrible thing
Shelley P. Haley PROFESSOR of Africana Studies at Hamilton College New York⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
Hhhh
@@hellepost1439 professors aren’t magically immune to dementia.
@@hellepost1439 Yeah, Facebook studies or sth like that but she forgot that and thought she was a professor
Literally, that's something a person with dementia could have said, with all respect to her grandmother.
As a Black American, I apologize, this whole circus show is ridiculous.
It's not the fault of black people, it's the fault of some entitled show-creators that are trying to enforce their ideology unto everyone.
This is not about skin color, it's about an agenda. And everybody who hasn't lost his sanity is capable of seeing that.
Don't worry, it is not black people doing it it is just a few morons who are doing it and they are just using there skin color as a shield
Don’t apologize because you skin color is similar as these people. We are individuals in the USA. I get your sentiment but it makes me sad people feel the need to apologize
@@briantoplessbar4685 as an Egyptian since the day this got released I was fighting I never saw this as a racial thing I saw as changing something and claiming it is true it doesn't matter if you have the same skin color as them because that doesn't define us not even a little bit it is our action that does so don't feel bad about it
Not your circus, not your clowns, you good.
I'm Greek and my friend is Egyptian. I remember us both catching up and talking about how absurd this is. And then for her to call Egyptians racist??? I looked at my friend absolutely gobsmacked. It's incredible what you can get away with using the "race card", but I'm glad people are like "hang on that won't work here"
@𓋆 𓊝𓉱𓂃 𓂁 𓂂 𓂄𓂅 𓂆𓁖 Ave from Roma! Love to all our mediterranean family, the most civilized people on earth
@@EutNehbethawetRuSat greetings to you too!! Mediterranean W
@𓋆 𓆔𓆚𓌪𓃠 Salam from a land that had the great Al-Andalus, from a moroccan mediterranean.
I called my Greek friend too and she was like come one come back after I mentioned to her that Afrocentric called me Greek 😅, she mentioned that I’m lighter than her and it’s time to claim Greeks ( we love to joke alot ) .. the absurdity that Mediterraneans can actually range in skin tone still African Americans Afrocentrica think that Egypt = Africa is ignorant
Yes, it is racist. The original Egyptians were black. And saying otherwise is racist. Your friend does not descend from the Egyptians, your friend descends from the Egyptians COLONIZERS.
This reminds me of the saying: Don't argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
I'm with Egypt.
I've grown up watching movies featuring Egypt, documentaries highlighting Egypts history and beauty and its one of the places on the world I've always wanted to see.
Woke tarts don't get to blackwash world history to make themselves feel good and that's all the Netflix Cleopatra disaster was, a feel good project for Jada and company.
When is white actors representing all the other nations, like Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, or Yul Brynner as Ramses, or Keanu Reeves as a Samurai?!?!
World history has been heavily white wash and you say nothing about that. The majority of history taught in America is made up
@@etnomadaul yeah, bitch about movies from 60 years ago as justification for AfroMurican crap of today.
@Rain on Water Ancient Egyptians were black and brown people not white Europeans
@@etnomadaul LET ME SPELL IT OUT CLEOPATRA WAS GREEK! EGYPTIANS WERE NEVER BLACK NOR WHITE but a mix and mostly tanned and our pharaohs had all colors and when we represent them we use the right color and features out of respect to the historical person، which u people need to learn!
Imagine how we feel about this as Egyptians, to say we are LIVID about this would be an understatement. And the Greek people too are equally livid about this. To hell with you Jada Smith and to hell with Netflix They crossed a line.
I definitely agree with you Shadi. IDK what my actual biology is, but this shit pisses me off and its gotten so fucking OLD. They keep doing this for no rewason other than to appease the very smalle group here in america that just cries the most. FACK
@Gittana it's still their history
@Gittana You do realize the pyramid was 2500 years old to Cleopatra right??? Even if I wanted to entertain your "black people are the original Egyptians" the time Creole was alive is the time you're talking about the Egyptians being "descendants of Arabs" . So why not make Cleopatra the Arabic Greek she was????
@Gittana No, they descend from ancient Egyptians, greeks and than Arabs
In that order
@@f3iix023 Why are they so intent on removing any black trace in the so called history? If Cleo was mixed so what, why do they have an issue with it? Why didnt they sue whites for teaching that Jesus is white? If there were black people in Ancient Egypt, then Egyptian history is black people history, just like Whites consider Sumerian history as white, even though Sumerians were not English white. In any case, Cleo was Greek, why is this not a Greek complaint, even in court it is Egyptians, why didn't they go to court when it was said Egypt is not in Africa?
“Your history is wrong. This is what really happened.”
“What’s your source?”
“I’m black.”
Underrated comment
I'm black my grandmother told me.
You are 100% WRONG.
The ancient walls of Egypt is there proof
Black people think they own and are right about everything and if you call them wrong your a racist
This happens a lot for the history of my country too, I’m persian and most Persians are white with brown hair and eyes, but when they show us in TV shows and documentaries they put Indian and brown actors in it instead of persian actors. Even in anime and cartoons they make Persians brown and when we say anything about it they call us racist. One example is the game fate grand order where they have made every Persian character black. after some complaints they only fixed one character which is arash kamangir and in the new update they made his skin white instead of brown but characters like darius III are still black in the game.
And a lot of people mistake us for Arabs and when we get sad and say that we’re not Arabs they call us racist towards Arabs
So true. I met many persians yet no one with a dark skin. The typical persian to me is persian is just as you write, white with dark hair.
How, in the WORLD, did she make it about HER, and her skin color. When they LITERALLY disrespected an entire culture of Egyptians. I pray to God everyday for strength to tolerate people like this, cause I have an extremely hard time doing so.
like how delulu and entitled she is. I've seen black people be racist just because of the slave thing long ago and they twist every story to fit their own agenda and their so called struggles. They are doing exactly what they swore was done to them
Bec if she told people they’re racist, everyone will come at them for it. She is the one using modern day IDEOLOGY To obtain hate for Egyptians for fighting for their history 😂
She is Greek...so Greeks should be mad because they ruled Egypt at that time.
She definitely thinks it’s all about her, I don’t think she can comprehend disrespecting other ethnicities or countries
privileged life of someone who can deny any wrongdoing by claiming the other party is racist. Actual slaves are rolling in their graves right now seeing what their lineages have become.
100%. You can easily tell this chick is driven by her huge ego and doesnt care if she has to spit in the face of an entire nation/culture to boost that ego
She’s not even much to look at the audacity
She only gets it when it is black folks who are disregarded.
She comes across like she REALLY wants the hate to be directed at black people for empowerment, but in reality the hate isnt because theyre empowered black people, its because they just butchered history. Shes a bit delusional lmfao
Her laughing about the fact that 🇪🇬 has filed a lawsuit is straight disgusting! I’m sick of this type of ‘inclusion movement’. You can represent your race as much as you want but don’t rewrite other country’s history to fit your narratives! Ridiculous!
How about we just don't rewrite history period unless it's historical fiction
Like what Brits and Americans have done with native Americans?
@@pgarciaAP Yes, that's the point. We should be more informed now. When we know better, we (should) do better.
@@timm4008 I want to see the reaction to Michael Jordan or Malcolm X being portrayed by a white man !! 🤔
Whites changed many countries history now y’all mad when we do it
How can you shut down any argument without having to be correct? Just call everyone raciest.
Honestly so fucking refreshing seeing people not afraid to call this shit out for what it is - you're a legend brother
No he's either Fraud or a Racist. Because I'm not even 2 mins in & he's already historically wrong
People are just growing tired of putting up with bullshit it seems, about time too.
Don't feel too refreshed. There's only 1 reason it got called out. Cuz it was against another minority. See, black thought they had carte blanche to get away with anything right now. They got reality checked!
Any* minority, or historically discriminated people, is off limits right now. Blacks, Gays, Egyptians, Muslims, etc... Only white can be attacked with impunity. Notice I didn't mention Jews* yet. Ya, the asterisk was for a reason. Jews can just about do anything they want without fear of reprisal. Unless your Weinstein or Epstein.
No hate, just the world we live in...
Something I find funny is that she's British wanting to steal Egypt history's? Didn't the British already steal enough from Egypt?
As an Egyptian, thank you for not kneeling to these racist anti African people
She comes across as incredibly self-absorbed in those clips. Fake laughing and acting as if your better than everyone else is never going to win any argument, ever. All it will do is make people more angry. And that's so obvious, I can't help but think she's doing it on purpose and that's her intention...
I'm not racist.
Proceeds to tell Egypt they don't know their own history.
Afro-centric crap.
Yeah you just described being British.
Well said she seemed obnoxious nd self obsessed
@@RettMikhal unironically I think you're right 😂
I am Egyptian, and I would be equally displeased if someone made a documentary about President Sadat and used a fair skin actor, Sadat had a very dark tone. It is not racism, it is about people taking the liberty to misrepresent our history. Thank you Jesse for a fair and balanced review.
Yes I remember and Lou Gossett played in the movie in the 70s or 80s
You are arabe men , not egyptian men.
@@leonet6681xactly. These colonizers think they are entitled to fit everything they stole into their image. It funny to see them being so mad over something they believe into a lie
@@leonet6681 even the Arabs have Egyption blood from their grandmother ( Hager ) the Egyption mother of Ishmeal the father of Arabs but u west African American has No Egyption blood at all
So shut up 🤣🤣
Sadat did have a dark tone. May I ask you a question? Do you think of him as black?
Love when people say " If you don't think like me or accept my view you are racist - or antisemitic - or are full of hate". We all have views. Get over it if we don't agree.
"It's okay when we do it!"
That pretty much sums up their mentality when they do crap like this
it was ok to us when Jesus was casted as a white blue eye man. all these white devils be here yelling. RACISM is your surname is a fact.
- Some say that the “Ten Commandments” was also a fictitious film based on Hebrew delusions. Others, that Jesus was created by the Roman Empire to control the masses. That’s the beauty of human imagination, if it makes us happy, enjoy the fantasy! Reality could sometimes be boring.
Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Elizabeth Taylor portrayed Egyptian royalty? It was okay when "black" history was destroyed/robbed... and here we are...
If someone casted some Asian or White guy as a legendary Mexican figure in history i would be PISSED! Can't really blame Egyptians for feeling insulted. And that actress is instantly becoming more dislikable by calling Egyptians racist for calling out Netflix on their crap.
CLEOPATRA WAS BLACK.
But they've been doing that for decades...where were your comments then kimosabé?!
Brad Pitt as Poncho Villa maybe?🤣
@@etruscancivilization every significant figure in history was black except Hitler. Fixed it for you.
White people did the black makeup to act as black people back in days. So racist ideology is brainwashing black to dress up as a white in modern days.
The arrogance to not admit when one is wrong is the most infuriating thing about all this. Just admit you made a mistake. Jada Pinkett Smith is one of the most toxic celebrities out there today.
Shes an actress aspiring roles for the oscar winning and Hollyweird, they dont care what they do most of them are ignorant, havent even finish school, 🤷🏻♀️ this is an agenda of distraction
Because we're not wrong. The original Egyptians were black, the Arabs you see in Egypt today are colonizers.
They still protect their abusive celebrities and say, they have been taken down by white people, so no wonder....
I side with the Egyptians for this. I hope Netflix goes broke.
Imagine being told you’re racist, wrong and an invader by people who never even set foot nor were born in the continent of Africa, let alone the land of Egypt.
Exactly. The Afrocentrist entitlement is so ridiculous. They think they're above everyone & everything, so they're the only ones allowed to preach & judge.
Thank you.
Ironic considering american history
@@oginatrix2904 - There are two versions of American History, one is The Spanish American version which began in 1492; and the other is the Anglo American History which started in the 1620’s. Most USA (Anglo) historians start in 1620’s; while Spanish America had Universities by that period throughout the two continents (North and South), and opened the path for other Europeans to follow.
I’m an Egyptian and just wanted to say thank you for calling out Netflix for all their nonsense and telling them to apologize to us. Because they should! Thank you so much. You just gained another subscriber.
@jim hardy ancient egyptains may not have been west african black but theyu sertantly wasnt Mediterranean. You can see the anceint Egyptian paintings they are claerly dark brown. Brown east africans. Just like somalians ethipoans and eritreans. This actress looks like a ancient Egyptian or close to it. Poeple are just racist
Exactly!!! That's why the people behind this "documentary" ( propaganda) and some Black people have to call the critic racist, they don't have a Single rational argument, That's why they have to deshumanize the critics with this emotional argument (who are not worth . They are eaten inside by an deep rooted inferiority complex and have to try to impose an historical lie and a false narrative in their quest for power.
Sorry for the other idiot in the comments talking about African Americans in our country but he doesn't know anything because not all of them act like this he's exaggerating and African American people came from the middle east and Africa not just Africa
We're all on the side of the Egyptians with this one.
@jim hardy 😂 now that comment is the real definition of racism.
Step 1: Denigrate Egyptian history with aggressive Afro-Washing. (i.e. racist cultural appropriation).
Step 2: Attack the victims and call them names.
That is always what delusional leftists/marxist/commies do.
Step 3: SECURE THE KEYS….. no iam joking you are correct 👍🏻
Standard Hollywood practice these days.
STEP 3: RELEASE THE GENETIC STUDIES DONE ON THE ANCIENT[ B4 ALEX&CO] KHEMITIANS THAT THE ARAB USURPERS REFUSE TO LET THE WORLD SEE
As a Roman descendant, I can say I stand by the Egyptian and Greek people. This is pure woke washing in its full absurdity and should be considered and treated like the garbage that it is. Let us not infuriate our Ancestors with the false beliefs of the modern day weak who for some reason have been given a voice.
Netflix: Men are toxic and power hungry...
Actual Cleopatra: Murders her siblings for power
Also Cleopatra - seduced various of powerful men to get them to do her bidding.
She was basically a prostitute for power. She slept with men to gain power.
To be fair they would have murdered her if she didn’t do it first. Cleopatra simply played the game and won, she didn’t make the game.
@@MissCaraMint That's absolutely true, I'm just pointing out women also played the games and were just as ruthless...and had to be.
They use the "racist" argument like they are right,Egypt stand up for your history
"Racist" is anything they do not like or do not want to accept. Coffee is cold - it is racist. A rainy day is racist. Money lost on the stock market is racist. Parking ticket is racist.
Damn you’d think someone on their end would say “Oops we messed up sorry”but they doubled down and called a whole nation racist and regarded their feelings about their own historical figure’s depiction as irrelevant.
They are the side of virtue...
The act of swapping one race with another IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF RACISM.
Did you really expect them to react differently? Didn't the Bud Light story teach you anything? They're willing to lose not millions, but billions. Because if they abandon their racist leftist agenda, they'll lose a lot more.
Yes, the whole nation of Egypt is occupied by racist colonizers. The Arabs that occupy Egypt, are just that... Arabs. They are colonizers, not Egyptians.
Too arrogant and too clueless.
Imagine calling an entire country racist and thinking it wouldn't backfire even further.