How Woke Ideology Transforms History + Netflix's Cleopatra Is Racist
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- From Cleopatra as well as other Netflix original series the transformation of history for identity politics is in full swing, but why? Let's talk.
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Thank you for watching everyone & let me know what you think. We have to call these things out & expose them because they are genuinely never going to stop otherwise.
This Cleopatra thing is so blatantly colourism & also the way people are treating that Lilo & Stitch actress is pretty racist too. Gotta love the internet!
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They soured the Milk with Wokeness to herd us back into the Factory 9-9. No more having Fun, for you see having Fun requires Imagination and Free Time. And those will lead into Revolutions.
I as a Person of Colour, I already understand long enough why Hollywood & Activists wanted a Representation HOWEVER, EXCESSIVELY Race-swapping White Characters to Black is for the "Change" whilst Black to White is "Racist" is so HYPOCRITICAL it puts the Black community in a very Bad Light!
Hollywood & the Woke is not doing it for "EQUAL RIGHTS" they want more than just being EQUALS by walking away from the path of "Martin Luther King" to "Malcom X" by making Crimes against Whites Legal
👏👏👏
@Cyril Moore 3rd what part Africa is his dad from?
Interesting video. But I wouldn't say that race-swapping is racist. I think the biggest gripe for me in race-swapping a character is the historical inaccuracy that is stated as fact and the blatant virtue signaling, both of which have the sole purpose of stirring controversy to generate buzz about race relations in the USA.
When people call Hollywood bullshit, all the criticism is deflected as racism, which in turn is going to push people further into 2 camps. Hollywood wants to keep adding division between groups of people. That is how they stay relevant.
Saying Cleopatra was black is like saying Jada Pinkett Smith is a loyal and loving wife.
🤣🤣
Or saying Brandon Johnson is an excellent Chicago mayor!
HA! Now that's rich 😅
The fact is Cleopatra was black, greek, egyptian, and mediterranean as these were the mummies/bones they found in her family linage so her ancestors. So she was Mixed Race. Not just Greek or Egyptian but a mixed race woman of many races. The Actress playing Cleopatra is Egyptian, White and Black she is also mixed race. The issue people have is the actress look more black and that where everyone need to look at them selves and declare they are really the racist. Because this is the actual look of more than likely of what Cleopatra and her family look like.
Another Fact No person on earth knows who Cleopatra mother was or Grand mother was, or what race they were. So if you do not have that final DNA you can not claim she was Greek only. As with most art during that time it was stylized drawing and sculptures as they made even blacks sculptures/and drawing have greek hair styles. That something you learn in ART history Classics, art and archeological schools. Nothing is what you think it is it all how they wanted you to see it.
@@dbuck2862 again wrong. The body of the girl who was thought at one time to possibly be the body of Cleopatra's sister was proven not to have been. Cleopatra's sister was 25 years old at the time of death and the girl found was between 13 and 16 years old. Plus there was no other evidence to support that it was her sister and was laughed out by scholars.
I'm glad the Greeks and Egyptians are fighting back at this
The BBC has Africanised Dicken's David Copperfield and currently Great Expectation, but the public stay silent
@@marcellogenesi6390 Yes. The Dickens book Oliver has a black “Artful Dodger’ and an Arabic boy playing “Oliver” . People in the UK are up in arms. It's not about keeping non-whites out. I am perfectly happy to see all but one white actor in The Black Panther. It's a movie about a lost nation in the middle of Africa. When it's a story about white nations from years ago, don't put black or brown people in if there were none in history. It's insulting and blackwashing history.
Nobody has the right to put his, or her interpretation on something that they have not created, none! It is a cowardly insult to authors like Dickens who are not able to defend and object to what those pseudo intellects do to their creative work. Netflix has no creative brain, it all about money
These nations are aware (and proud) of their history
@@marcellogenesi6390it’s because those BBC shows are for Americans only. But when you blackify Cleopatra, you involve Europe(Greek) and Egypt. And that’s how this controversy is more popular worldwide than that of BBC’s controversies… same with The Little Mermaid, many Europeans are angry at Americans for making her black. She was written by a Danish author, white. America has a problem with black, trying to make people black meanwhile they are not.
If they wanted to tell a story about black rulers, then give us a story about rulers who are 100% CONFERMED to be black. Give us a story about Shaka Zulu. Give us a story about Sonni Ali. Give us a story about Ezana of Axum. Hell, if they're so desperate for a queen on Cleopatra's level, tell us the story of Yaa Asantewaa. Just a quick Google search can point them to these impressive figures and over a thousand others just waiting to have their lives brought to the big screen.
Yes, thank you!!! We need to know about black culture as well!
I really want a big budget movie starring Zulu. The dude is freaking incredible
THERE ARE PLENTY OF GREAT PEOPLE WHO WERE aFRICAN,THE PROBLEM IS WHITE MEDIA ALWAYS PAINTS THEM WHITE.
Yasuke the black samurai gonna be lit too
@@skibidiboby3s 💯
Anne Boleyn was NOT beheaded during riots. She was beheaded at the demand of her husband, King Henry, who was obsessed with having a male heir, which she wasn't able to provide. In order to get rid of her so he could marry his next wife, he made up accusations of adultery and incest. Anne's whole story as Queen Of England is quite fascinating to say the least. I think you are confusing her with Marie Anoinette.
Yip, talking crap by mixing the Queens lol
Yeah he also said cleopatra was part of alexanders empire. They lived like 200 years apart and cleopatras egypt was a client state of rome
@@09tomforeman she was a descendent of one of his generals so yeah she was greek. but yeah he got Ann Bolin totally wrong on her death, it was all king henry the 8th behind it.
@@enthernoro i never denied she was greek, just that she was part of alexanders empire
Evidence she was white: Statues, coins, her ancestry, artistic impressions and historical descriptions of her from when she was alive.
Evidence she was black: Grandma.
That ladies Grandma is full of it.
Yeah Cleopatra was from an inbred family line of Macedonian/Greek pharaohs that didn't mate outside the cousins
Cleopatra was probably very tanned but still technically white
@@theanimeunderworld8338Mediterranean white. (GREEK).
@@maryannwaters339 I'm honestly surprised Cleo didn't have a habsberg chin or genetic mutation
She was Greek and there was 7 of them.
”Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That’s not history, that’s psychiatry.”
- Edward Koch
Yes.... And that is exactly what has happened. Cleopatra first and foremost was a title given , so there were multiple "Cleopatras", now this one specifically was an Ethiopian...
Actually this is not accurate, she was black African
@@user-nz5dh6qq5x she was Greek
@@gregsweet9552 no she wasn't
@@user-nz5dh6qq5xshe was Greek learn your history
In the words of my grandmother, who died before I was born.
"I don't care what they tell you at school,
Cleopatra was a Xenomorph"
the perfect organism
Makes sense to me
She's was the Queen of the egiptian hive, so Octavian send a squad of Roman Marines to nuke from the Orbit. It was the only way to be sure...
As an Egyptian i am really happy to know that there's some people who actually understand how important it is to fight back this agenda of blackwashing everything instead of looking at their own history they're trying to twist someone else's history into theirs which is what makes me mad the most
Africa remains black
man beat it.Arabs are descended from invaders in Egypt
AS AN EGYPTIAN ARE DESCENDANTS FROM MAMLUKS NOT FROM THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS ...AS GREEK claiming to be linked to the ancient ones when the reality is another...YOU aRe NEAR MORE TURKISH ROOTS THAN ORIGINAL GREEKS .THAT THEY NEVER ETHNICALLY EXISTED..THEBANS TRACIANS MACEDONIAN ANATOLICS WERE QUIET MIXED...LET S TALK ABOUT CLEOPATRA.. The Greek writer Strabon of Amaseia (lived c. 64 BC - c. 24 AD) writes in his Geographika 17.1.11 that, of all Ptolemaios XII’s daughters, only the eldest (i.e., Cleopatra’s sister Berenike) was legitimate. This statement, however, has caused considerable controversy, since Strabon is the only ancient writer who ever even implies that Cleopatra was illegitimate.
Furthermore, if Cleopatra’s illegitimacy were really a well-established fact, then it is absolutely baffling why the Romans did not use it in their propaganda against her, since it would have been a perfect way of delegitimizing her. If it were really well-established that Cleopatra was not the legitimate daughter of Ptolemaios XII and his legal wife, we would expect to see this claim reiterated and emphasized in virtually every extant Roman source. Instead, what we see is the exact opposite: total silence.
There are two possible resolutions to this conundrum. One is that Strabon may have simply guessed that Ptolemaios XII’s daughters other than Berenike were illegitimate without any reliable evidence. The other possibility that, when Strabon says that Ptolemaios XII’s daughters other than Berenike were “illegitimate,” what he really means is that they were children of Ptolemaios XII by his minor wives, rather than children of his primary wife.
“Historians have long described Cleopatra as ethnically Greek, but during the past decade, that assumption has increasingly been called into question. In 2009, a team of archaeologists found the remains of a woman they believed to be Princess Arsinoe, Cleopatra’s sister. The researchers believe Arsinoe’s remains, found in Ephesus, Turkey, indicate that her mother (also likely Cleopatra’s) was African.”
“‘That Arsinoe had an African mother is a real sensation which leads to a new insight on Cleopatra’s family and the relationship of the sisters Cleopatra and Arsinoe,’ Hilke Thuer of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, who made the discovery, said at the time.”.
True. They (black africans) were also some of biggest slave traders... now blaming everything on arabs and whites.
Stop thinking of african american as egyptians. They are not saying that they are the ancient egyptians, they are saying that egypt is originally african because of the evidence showing that The kings came first from Sudan. The world knows that The Black original egyptians are still in egypt today but your racist government and media dont want them seen on mainstream media so you do like america and dont show the natives on mainstream, its a old trick!
Archelologists cant find ANY traces of ancient egyptian culture outside of africa because the ancient egyptian culture was a african culture that have traces deeper in africa all the way to south africa + the first king was sudanese (kush/kemetic). I dont know what you read or what you see but you call yourself egyptian so you should know this because its documented history of the place you call home. You modern egyptians should stop playing these games as if you all are the originals when The world know ancient egypt was invaded and colonized more then 10 Times-- even a 8 year old will unerdstand that The face of The population will dramatically change.
The problem is not african americans saying that ancient egypt was of african origin, the REAL problem here is that native egyptians are being teated like sh#t and the offsprings of ancient invaders from Arabia, greece, turky, persia, ottoman, assyria, romans, Libanon etc are claiming to be the original egyptians. This is one of the wolrds greatest lies ever.
Honestly as an Egyptian I find it extremely offensive that people think that they can take our history which we treasure so much and just smear all that fake crap on it
I thought modern Egyptians are descended from Arabs. Or is that not accurate?
Get them then man you're one of the few in this comment section that could actually probably make some kind of change. Get your people together and boycott this piece of shit
@@M0rshu64 yea but cleopatra was hellenistic, the greeks had ruled over egypt for generations at that time. same as how all british aristocracy was french for generations because of the norman conquest
@@M0rshu64 No. By that logic South America is populated entirely by Spainards and Portugese from Europe.
Who cares fam
i will always quote this:
"Studying history will sometimes make you uncomfortable.
Studying history will sometimes make you feel deeply upset.
Studying history will sometimes make you feel extremely angry.
If studying history always makes you feel proud and happy, you probably aren’t studying history."
Indeed. As someone very wise said, "don't ask the quesiton if you think you may not like the answer"...
This is something I always quote too, history is not meant to take pride in, it's meant to make you aware of past events and learning from the mistakes that came with them. It should never be told in a way to falsely make one group feel Superior, above other groups, or molded in a way to make a particular group happy lol.
...I've always told people...history is a muddy place...one where good and bad are rarely as clear cut as the stories make them out to be. Another thing I urge people to remember...every line on the map was drawn in blood.
I personally dislike that quote because it's been used by wokies I know personally to basically say things that are historically and factually false but it lines up with their anti-white narrative, while they turn a blind eye to their own revisionist history and historical truths like the reality of the Dahomey.
Ahhh the things people with no history say😂. Egyptians, Italians, Greeks, Iraqis, and many others have a plethora of things to be proud of historically.
Their "But it's my Truth" argument actually means "It's my Lie, now believe it"
I'm so over race swapping, especially in historical stories. Thanks for making a video on it.
It's more than race swapping. It's blackwashing. Meaning changing white historical figures to black ones.
Typical Americans
I remeber my adoptive grandmother saying to me
"I dont care what they tell you at school,
Cleopatra was Mandalorian"
As long as they don't change Yoda I don't care :)
This is the way.
👵 : THIS IS THE WAY
And the mandalorian was Ugandan! Da wae.
This is the way 👆🏼
You know as a child i never understood why we needed go learn history, but times like these makes me realize why.
You primarily need to know history so lessons learned in blood aren't repeated. The largest loss of human life took place in the last century under tyrannical regimes marketed as Marxism, socialism and/or communism. In our world today these lessons carry on in countries like Cuba and Venezuela. Despite the hundreds of millions who died, and billions who suffered under these regimes, lessons left in history seem to be lost to many living today. Unfortunately, far too many who don't know and understand history are voting for these tyrannical measures and the politicians who support them. Those living in "free" Western nations have lost many of their previously held freedoms in recent decades, and are heading the same route as those who suffered so horribly in the 1900s. Please learn your history - at least that of the last century - before you vote.
@@invernessity They have been lost because Satan Seeds (Genesis 3:15) are running the Earth. They are LIARs, Deceivers, & Thieves from birth. John 8:44 🙏🏿✌🏿
@@invernessity You forgot fascism in the list. Don't omit history as to shape it into a political agenda.
Her sister were 1/2 black, and her daughter married an African king.. And she lived in hot Africa no sun lotions
@@alicearceneaux9969 The reason why they are afraid of the Black Egyptian Truth being told is because they know the Biblical Truth will be confirmed. The Biblical Old & New Testament Testament setting is in Africa & about Africans and the Vatican & others already know. 🙏🏿🤴🏾👸🏾😍
I remember my grandmother saying to me
"I dont care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra shot JFK"
I don't understand how people can watch "historical" shows filled with inaccuracies and not lose all immersion
George Orwell, 1984: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped
That book becomes more and more true to life as time passes. I'm scared for the future.
Im crying bc just a few years ago in high school after reading it, we said we would never get to that point. Now look at us. Renaming, confusing, kids reporting their parents, ect.
@Daddy Yahweh Crying won't do anything. Take action. Make sure you are doing the right thing. You know the truth. You know you are doing the right thing. Keep going. Work on your mind and your body. Talking about these won't do anything. We have to move.
@@nickklavdianos5136 It was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
That book just like many other science fiction books are premonitions of what's to come. The problem with science fiction is, it is seen more as entertainment, even thou most of what science fiction has predicted has so far come true. So if there is a new generation of people trying to manipulate human history, then nobody should be alarmed as George Orwell, 1984 has predicted this along with other books.
I went to Egypt in Feb 2023. Visiting the Egyptian museum with a native guide; she said:
"1st and foremost, Cleopatra was not black"
Set the tone.
Thats funny, she probably couldn't take the arguments with American tourists anymore.
I think, netflix staff need to visit there .. 😅
@@jeffk464 I suppose yeah 😅
And she was an invading Greek Colonizer…so if we gonna tell the truth, let’s tell it ALL😊
next ; i'm waiting for netflix to make a black(skin) version of zeus and hitler .. 😅
Thank you from Egypt for being Honest and logic ❤
This might have just became my new favourite channel
As an Egyptian myself, thank you for bringing light to this. Our history is very important and should not be misrepresented by these woke hollywood creators!
They will say you are descended from Arab invaders, not from ancient Egyptians. I've seen it in these comments already. It's complete nonsense, but try telling them that.
@@brucetucker4847 they are descended from arabs and the only true egyptians are Copts .
This is like saying that Lydian, Greek, Persian, Roman, and Eastern Rome are my history just because the region where I live as a Turk was ruled by them.
@@Jubitu9 Only a racist nigga would say this
@@Jubitu9 and the copts are middle eastern
Acknowledging the decisions of the past as unacceptable is perfectly fine, we all live and learn, but repeating them to get revenge in a 'they did it to us so we'll do it to them' way is just childish. The mature thing to do is to not repeat the mistakes, but maturity seems to be lacking in society these days.
2 wrongs dont make a right.
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind - Ghandi
The entire point of learning about history is so that we don't repeat it. Using history as justification for treating others horribly based off of their skin color proves that we have not learned anything.
Labelling some action pf the past as a "mistakel or "unacceptable" is from a modern individual perspective. I would rather understand the why amd how of how past cultures worked plenty of modern actions that we might think are "acceptable" and "correct" might look horrendous from another perspective. I would like to think that when future peoples look back on eg transgender surgeries that effectively sterlise children, they will see it in context of a declining civilisation and not an integral part of us.
@@elliottpaine9259 I agree, but bitter, spiteful, resentful people don't.
The pushback against the Woke can NEVER be enough!!!
Keep it up!
LET HOLLYWOOD BURN TO THE GROUND........LETS START OVER
Jada Pinkett Smith: "We don't often get to see or hear stories about black queens, but Netflix didn't think that would sell, so we appropriated the story of Cleopatra because she's easily marketable and we can pass her off as a cheap, counterfeit diversity quota."
True. If Cleopatra wasn't a historical icon, it wouldn't cross their minds to even make a documentary about her
Having really interesting african queens like Amina of Zaria, Ana Nzinga, Makeda, etc. that their story is unknown by the majority of people and it would be good to make people know about them, but nope, we get a well known historic fiegur and we make historical revitionisim.
@@Ms666slayer If they wanted a well known queen, they could've went for Queen Nefertiti.
Because the fact is , black people in the past were slaves !! Thats why they rarely heard stories of black queen because they were none !!!
@@Ms666slayer Nzinga would make a really good topic for a biopic. I just listened to a podcast telling her story, and the general agreement among those on the podcast was "why hasn't anyone made a movie about this lady?"
If Cleopatra is alive today she would order her soldiers to bring the heads of the writers and producers in a platter.
if she was alive today she would be on tiktok calling everyone privileged
I would gladly help them in that goal.
So true
Her soldiers would also need to be alive today to do that.
@@ThaEzioAuditore Cleopatra didn't have modern central heating air conditioning in an automobile. She had to travel slower with teams of horses or camels and much slower boats as motorboats not invented yet. She never got to ride in an airplane if she traveled a thousand miles it took months instead of a few hours.
Just an fyi, AMC is the one behind the Anne Boleyn show, not Netflix. Great content btw :)
That Egyptian Surgeon Bassem did a great job at Piers Morgan show in EXPLAINING with Egyptian Historical Facts what a grave situation it is he was absolutely right and it is NOT the first time when the West / Hollywood has changed & tempered erasing our Middle Eastern or Islamic culture historically.. they are doing it since the beginning !!
"I don't care what they told me in school, Cleopatra was black" yeah that grandma was obviously having a senior moment here
🙄🙄🙄🙄 lies you tell, grandma. I bet this historian quotes her grandma in her sholarly research all the time
History is only told by the victor
@@sarabennett6295 Yeah I'm sure of it too 😂 I mean no offense or anything but c'mon, how can anyone have the nerve to say something like this, especially an old woman supposed to be full of wisdom 🙄
Concentrate on the real black queens who ruled Egypt, ascended the Egyptian throne coming from Sudan..that's definitely a fact and real history....
@@monikahasch7441there is not a single black pharaoh in history even in nubian dynasty they was called colonisers and the Egyptians took thier lost territories and enslaved the nubians again
I wonder how they justify Cleopatra being an actual slave owner.
Like this: YAAAAAAS QUEEEEEEN 💅💅💅
Throughout history slavery hasn't targeted exclusively black people, ethnic Slavs, Teutons, Gauls, etc, were slaved by the Romans, Arabs used to have slaves which were white, ir about power, not skin tone.
@@jzabala10 Quite literally every society throughout history had slaves at one point. If you could conquer another group, you would
@@jzabala10 agreed...
I'm completely white yet my direct ancestors were famously enslaved by the Egyptians lmao
@@jzabala10 Yup the people most enslaved in history were probably Slavs.
Hell the word slave comes from the word Slav.
I am a queen charlotte apologiest. They had a disclaimer on the first episode saying it is all fiction. I did not even know they were thinking about an actual queen from history, i thought it was a coincidence they had same names.
I would love for Netflix or any other studio out there to make a movie about Yasuke, the first ever black samurai. The man served beside Nobunaga and was beside him when he died. This movie would no doubt be a banger.
Exactly! I've heard of this guy too and I think his story would make an excellent series. There are so many real black people with amazing stories. There's no need for race swapping.
he already has an anime on netflix,its not that good tho
Remember when movies used to come out and everyone including the actors would just talk about the subject matter and plot of the movie and not peoples race, gender, and ideology only and nothing else????? Good times.
No joke, I only browse Facebook when I'm bored at work (work reasons) and the ONLY promotion articles I've seen about The Last of Us always are about race, gender and their ideology.
@Kristopher Prime I am a black woman who was adopted by a white family and my parents never brought up race. It wasn’t important I was simply their daughter. I think there is currently an over discussion on race. I feel like we are too focused on black people being “different” that we can’t easily coexist these days. I think a lot of the “racism” these days are people looking for something to be angry or offended about
Imagine making a documentary about Cleopatra and then giving her the wrong skin color
Egipt is black cleópatra was black
@@olgasota2544 Macedonian is not black. She is a product of incest how the hell did she get black skin
@@olgasota2544 i can tell you're black by how you spell
@@olgasota2544Cleopatra was greek
Egyptians aren't black either. White tanned maybe.
Macedonian, and redhead
there was a tape of one of the BlackRock investment firm talked about forcing behavior change
Just subbed - to give your life meaning :)
Thank you very much!
If you make a series based of historical events, all characters should not be race swapped. I hate that these entertainment companies do this.
or at least not to be a hypocrite and racial swap bad people too...like black Adolf :)
right. too bad "historical facts" of history are "HIS-STORY". or bullshit white supremacist history. smh.
@aftermath20
Cleopatra was black what are you talking about. They made a movie called the gods of Egypt with all white actors.
@@walterdavies2984 I hope this is ironic. If not, well, Cleopatra was white. It’s… That simple.
just look at that movie glorifying african tribes enslaving africans and acting like that was a good thing in the movie ... oh right it was about stronk afrikan wamen
I remember my grandmother saying to me “I don’t care what they tell you in school, the earth is flat” may she rest in peace.
My Grandmother used to say, "no matter what they tell you in school, Hitler was a great man." Bless her soul.
She probably learned that from the people who told her cleoprata was white🤣🤣🤣
@@user-nz5dh6qq5x na she learned it from people like u
@@andearturtur6468 well she was right because i know my african history 🤣🤣
@@user-nz5dh6qq5x yeah just like her granny rip dumbasses 🤣
Double standards is crazy it makes people ignore that they're being racist.
Jada: "her heritage is highly debated"
"the south seceded for reasons that are debated upon"
"slavery"
"DEBATED UPON"
same energy
it's always disgusting to see this double standard in Hollywood, but this is honestly nothing new, they have always been shameless and arrogant. Projecting their own deeds onto you and acting like you're the vile evil one, when in reality they do all of the things they accuse you of, and worse behind closed doors.
I agree Hollywood is basically just inverting the roles as if that is what they should be doing
These will be the same people who will be angry if Hazel from Percy Jackson if she was cast by a white girl yet praised diversity and an actress being the best for the job when Annabeth Chase was cast as an African American girl
It's just the natural ways of the left their favourite thing is hypocrisy.
@@boxman5381 They're using Noam Chomsky's Rules for Radicals against us. Whatever they do they accuse of doing just with more fervor.
hollywood is just an extension of american culture and mindset.
This is literally why the saying “you can’t have it both ways” exists.
Well who the hell has cake, and doesn't want to eat it too? No, I'm not going to eat it, I just wanna look at it!
@Top Lobster makes more sense to say it's like BAKING a cake and eating it too. Cause usually bakers don't get to eat what they make. But I guess someone butchered it and it stuck.
It’s more like you can’t have your cake after you already ate it. You can’t have your cake and eat it at the same time
They will never long because of you challenge them on it they silence you.
12:00 The Ptolemaic Dynasty only came into being after Alexander was dead. Cleopatra ruled Egypt when Egypt was in the hands of the Diadochi, or successors to Alexander (Ptolemy, Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, etc). They fought so many wars amongst each other that Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor were easily conquered by the Romans.
No matter what they might tell you in college, Cesarion, the son of Black Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, wasn’t killed by Octavian. Instead he went on to sire the line that produced Jada Pickett-Smith. This means that Jada is not only Queen of Egypt, but Empress of Rome. It’s true. Grandma said.
I wouldn't be surprised if Jada will claim Cleopatra also suffered from alopecia and wore wigs but mark antony and caesar still loved her and broke the traditional standard of beauty along the way. 😂
No, Mark Anthony slapped Ceasar for calling her bald. It’s in history books!
So more lies. Literally fanfiction
Egyptians used to wear wigs. Predominantly worn by the elite of Egyptian society, wigs served a dual purpose: they signaled high rank in Egypt's strict social hierarchy and helped protect shaven scalps (a sign of nobility) from the sun. Wigs also helped maintain hygiene levels by reducing the incidence of head lice.
😂😂😂
@@khadyadjisall5708 Oooh so her having a shaved head is within possibility?? Jada's gonna have a field day with that 🤣
Self insertion from a pathological narcissist
I told a friend of mine who didn’t understand why I was upset about the Black Anne Boleyn show. I told her “what shows like this say, is that my history and other cultures of color aren’t worthy or as important as those of European history”.
OH PLEASE LMAO YOU DÜMB ASS ID!OTS WHITESPLAINING SH!T IS RIDICULOUS 😂😅🤣 YOU ID IOTS ALL SAY THE SAME SHIT LMAO I SWEAR YALL MUST BE BOTS
you mean BLACK European history
Very true. In that light, the show and writers look very hypocritical
@@nurovolt7 they are, because if they wanted to tell stories of black rulers. There’s tons of African history yet to be told.
@@magina88 European is Caucasian culture, not black. While many Africans, Indians, Asians and West Indians live and migrated to European countries. They still retained their traditions and some cultures and stories from their respective countries, which is not historically black. That’s my point. I’m not dismissing POC who live during that time, however they were not given seats of power like you see in Queen Charlotte and Bridgerton. That’s not black culture, that’s tokenism.
In the words of my grandmother, who died before I was born.
“I don’t care what they tell you are school,
Cleopatra was a super saiyan.”
Excellente vidéo,j'apprécie💚
Its crazy we live in GTA parody world
Agreed
South Park parody world, even.
... bruh we really did become a parody of GTA😂
At least in the GTA world, we are immortal, can easily become rich, own a casino, and live in a penthouse
Almost like Rockstar predicted the future.
As a Greek I fully support Egyptians❤ wish we could do that too. It was insane to watch that trailer trying to convince us Cleopatra was black because someone’s grandma said it was so.
There is always a way to describe how things were back when, you can talk about slavery, you can talk about issues faced by inequality between men and women - without changing the real thing or being racist. And you can also write new compelling black characters to become more inclusive. There is no reason at all to attack someone’s heritage and history like that.
Furthermore, is troublesome to cancel works of the past such as Gone with the wind or other books that were deemed as racist. You erase your own struggles by trying to delete old stuff, or acting like those things never happened and acting like we can rewrite history. Today we can watch our words and actions better, back then things were like that and trying to erase this fact won’t help.
why when elizabeth taylor played cleopatra it was no outrage at all can anybody explain that .
I'm curious, Cleopatra was Greek, you are supposedly Greek. Why are you empathizing with Egyptians. Egypt was established as a Greek colony. You should be angry that Cleopatra was not portrayed by a Greek woman. Cleopatra was not indigenous to the land so she wouldn't be a part of the current inhabitants heritage as you say. Black people know very well about racism. They live it and are reminded everyday when propaganda says they've contributed nothing to the civilized world only to learn that black people were the ones to create civilization. So do the right thing by Cleopatra and protest that she is not being portrayed by a Greek.😊
The truth hurts, Alexander was a black man also so was his father Philip of Macedonia....
@@akachiinri true
@@akachiinri hitler Black to
"The Rock" Johnson is of mixed ethnicities. He was born to a Black Nova Scotian father, Rocky Johnson, who was of African-Canadian descent, and a Samoan mother, Ata Maivia. As a result, Dwayne Johnson has both African-Canadian and Samoan heritage.
I'm a god dammed Native American Veteran and I want to like this content so many times that I had to leave a comment because I can only upvote once. Revisionist history sucks even thought the victors right the history. Are there inaccuracies in U.S. history? Hell ya!, but Red-Men, Indians, or whatever moniker you want to give to Native Americans existed. I only use Native American because saying Indian or American Indian is fucking confusing without saying something uncouth like "red dot" or "feather" for clarification. I rather be a mascot than forgotten or rewritten.
We need to fight this, people. Don't let them advance one inch.
We're taking back what was taken from us, inch by inch and there's nothing you can do about it...BLACK EXCELLENCE
@@adeleinetheartist8267 there's absolutely nothing you can do about...
@@user-nz5dh6qq5x sometimes you can do something about it. In my situation I cancel my subscription so I dont support this kind of thing with money
@@user-nz5dh6qq5x false, going against stakeholder "capitalism", gaining control over education, not giving an inch, stopping the government and protecting Federal law, outbreeding them etc.
good luck. Egypt is in Africa
I’m confused why are the left angry about Disney having a dark skinned character played by a fair skinned character. I thought the left said that it does not matter if Disney race swaps character since it’s a fictional movie. It’s amazing how that logic goes out the windows when it is reversed and one of their protected groups gets race swapped
Not all. Some said it doesn’t matter. Then they got mad when someone made her look white in the trailer
Isn't it just? You couldn't cut the irony with a diamond blade.
@@guitarbandit408 oh so it’s “damn if you, damn if you don’t.”
because the Great Replacement only works in one direction
In case you haven't noticed by now, they are the biggest hypocrites on planet Earth. Have been for a long time. It's why all their useless whining is meaningless noise, because you should never give a courtesy to someone who wouldn't extend it back to you.
Thank you for covering jearl haakon one of my ancestors this needs to said
Bro You know the history and that is very mature & educated of you to accept and respect the History.. In todays time many people are constantly trying to ERASE & CHANGE the History of the World which us extremely concerning !
It’s a shame that the word “racist” has lost all meaning from over usage. Now it feels like it doesn’t carry as much weight as before. All else aside, great video!
So then you can apply that to woke and sjw. It is you who doesn't consider racism so bad, not the term. Does murder get any better cause people use the term a lot?
Yup today “racist” = something or someone i disagree with or dislike
@Vertigo get your brain checked.
Also, I feel like the term “racist” is so overused that we end up letting real racists get away with it
@@vertigo2894 If we started legitimately accusing individuals of murder every time they killed a bug, an animal for meat, or ate a hamburger because they were hungry, then yes. The word murder would lose its value, just like racism. When you accuse everyone, you make it so that no one is the defined word. You are also right about Woke and SJW, it has been applied too liberally, and has lost its meaning. So many words have lost all meaning, or been twisted beyond its original intent.
Reminds me of how The Woman King blatantly lied about everything that African tribe did.
The tribe DID exist and they DID have a woman as their leader, but they weren't poor helpless Black people who were genocided by the French like the movie claimed. In fact it was the tribe THEMSELVES who did the genociding. They would invade other tribes, kill as many as they could, and capture the rest and either sell them into slavery or enslave them themselves. They were actually an extremely important part of the West African/Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade back in the day.
And the only reason the war between them and the French started was because it was around the time that France was starting to outlaw slavery, and they demanded that the tribe stop enslaving and genociding other Africans at once, and the tribe refused so they launched an attack on the French and started the war in the first place. You heard me right. The only reason the events of "The Woman King" happened irl was because it was the European colonizers who wanted to stop slavery and it was the African tribe who didn't want to. I couldn't even make this shit up if I tried.
@@notsorandumusername Roots eat your heart out😂
@@notsorandumusername in the colonies and early USA, the 3 largest slave owners and traders were black men......
The largest population of slaves in the American Colonies and subsequently the USA were Chinese, followed by white europeans (mostly Irish and Slavic peoples) then Africans then some Indians and Mezzo Americans and finally Native Americans.
But some folks haven't bothered to actually look into this stuff.
Sad that people in the USA and Europe are complaining about slavery that happened in the Colonies and USA over a century ago, but say nothing about the slavery actually happening in India, China, Syria, Morocco, Zambia and a few other nations in Africa plus the slavery occurring in South American countries. (Out of the 195 total nations in the world, 127 of them haven't outlawed slavery....... including several members of the UN Human Rights Council.....)
Please tell me a book that I can read about this in detail.
Wow
They don’t care it always has to be black people good white people bad or all the woke sjw’s will have a meltdown and start burning down cities again while the media and politicians encourage them again
I LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH❤❤❤ YOU SAID IT!!! POINT!!!!!
I’m an actor, and half the time they literally say in the job description “people of colour only” for adverts and such. But hey, my people did bad things, what? 300 years ago. So I guess I have to pay don’t I?
Just be a person of colour bro! Simple
The Woman King is basically like if someone made a film of the Nazis being the good guys and saying they were actually using the camps to save the Jews from the Allies forces. And Japan definitely were literally *_comforting_* the women 😂😂😂
Now that's really funny😂
You can't really compare the agojie to the nazis pretty sure the nazis killed way more people
And if Hitler's feelings were affirmed, he wouldn't have started World War 2.
The kicker is that the actual story of the Rise and Fall of Dahomey would be quite the epic in its own right. If the script writers are completely incapable of researching the actual subject, point them to things like Gone with the Wind and tell them "It's like that. A brutal plantation slave society. Only they occasionally do human sacrifice, have to raid their neighbors for slaves, and have a group of warrior women.." A society or regime doesn't have to be GOOD in order to be somewhat sympathetic or at least compelling.
You do know that many movies shot by White Hollywood was like that? White people that's been terrorizing Native Americans and Eastern Asia historically but they're shown as heroes or something. The constant white savior garbage is always spewed out. I say whatever about Woman King. It's just black people imitating white racist supremacists live with it. Constantly movies done about white guy in Asian land and the Asian men are all evil or something then the white hero fights against their evil ways. Absolutely brainwashing of Asian women thinking White men are the good guys even in their native land.
For anyone who doesn’t know the footage from the beginning of the qvideo is from the game Assassin’s Creed Origins and other parts of the video
Fantasy stories are one thing. History is another.
In Germany, we recently had a similar discussion about Beethoven, the far-left and woke mob was trying to convince people that Beethoven was black they even planned to exhume his body to get his DNA for tests 😂
Please tell me you're joking
Wtf. Black people are tweaking
Those people need to seek help immediately.
Maybe it was the 1 drop rule?
I missed that 😅
Every year we get closer and closer to the world of Idiocracy
We're already here
WAY past that
not really. Have you watched Idiocracy recently? LGBT is used as a negative in that movie, and they couldn't care less about race. It's the exact opposite of our world.
Can't wait for Ow My Balls to come out.
@@jodroboxes Right after Ass the movie.
I think the thing that tells me it's not really about representation is that it's almost never about raising up NEW black characters, but about taking existing characters and figures and making THEM black. It's more about taking something away from a perceived 'other' than doing the hard work of creating something themselves.
I can respect Jordan Peele, for example, because when he wants to comment on being black, he writes an entirely new plot and creates good characters that happen to be black. I might not always like his movies, but I think he does far more for organic 'representation' than whatever Netflix is trying.
For me it’s just sad that there are so many incredible people in history from underrepresented groups but instead of making movies about them and casting people who fit their role they choose to tell story’s which are already popular. One girl said it’s sad that they couldn’t think of a black person to make a movie about and just told a story from a white person and made her black…
It breaks my heart to see ignorant people talk about something they think they know, but do not know. Up until now so many , Americans today do not know that there were indigenous people in the “United states” before whoever they say went there and discovered America. Anyway back to Egypt. It breaks my heart I repeat. Cleopatras whiteness 😂 is a small issue for contention . For a very long time African history has been rewritten, and twisted. I remember in secondary school, when my teacher, African btw, taught us , that Africa was simply a dark continent before the colonizers discovered it, that Africans were Savages, uncivilized🤣( like the Tarzan in the movie) Guess what, over the years we came to realize, that not all of it was true. I am so grateful to God, that I am living in a time when dark skinned women, now pride in being dark skinned or black like people like to say it. Now we know, that melanin is a PLUS and that it is not dirty, Melanin in many ways is to our advantage, I will not waste my time here roaming why because who will believe me, we are already STEALING people’s history😏 I won’t lie so many women still bleach though, even here in my county bleaching products sell like a hot cake, I don’t blame these women though, because for so many years we were told, that our beautiful, SMOOTH, copper dark skin was UGLY, but now we see it, it’s beautiful! And our strong, black, kinky curly hair which THANK God can be styled in so many ways! It can braided , straitened too with chemicals😏and when its put into dread locks it’s grows as-long as one would want it, again I won’t lie so many black women still hide there hair, stick straight hair wigs on their heads, it’s all low self esteem, But the narrative is slowly changing😁 SO MY POINT IS CLEOPATRA( May her soul Rest In Peace) can be as WHITE as she could have been the PALEST WHITE there is, 😂that’s is non of my business. Bravo to the Greeks and whoever is concerned about her WHITENESS😂The bigger concern here, is when people do not want to recognize that there were once black civilizations in EGYPT. Dear Egyptians do not come at me, we are all Africans aren’t we😁? you know your ”TRUTH” and you are sooooo sure, but this world is a wheel, what goes up, comes down, there is light then Darkness, then light , the TRUTH shall reveal it’s self one-day without a fight. ( btw I am a dark skinned woman... oops my bad I am BLACK skinned woman from some where around East Africa, won’t specify my country) Peace🙏🏾
PS. I am not in support of racial wars, at the end of the day we will all leave this world, back to the sand or water like those that came before us did😉
My favorite part about Netflix Cleopatra was when they lost hundreds of millions of dollars.
As a person who loves learning history, I prefer that historical fiction and nonfiction pieces are depicted as accurately as possible in every sense including sets and props. I feel the same way about fiction, especially the classics, as they too are a part of history. The more they b@zterdize the truth of our past and twist the original ideas and visions from masterpieces written by artists long gone, the less the next generations will understand the bigger picture of our past that led us to where we are and who we are today. Truth > Feelings ALWAYS
@Caleb's Unremarkable CZcams Channel thank you
So what is your feelings about Gods of Egypt.
@@WilliamGarrow you mean a fantasy film depicting the ancient Gods of Egypt as larger than human. buying your way into the afterlife with money, and a flat earth? But Egyptian Gods, aside from many being depicted with animal heads, aren't depicted as being black, unless the blue-green colour of Osiris is interpreted that way.
COMING FROM A FACELESS TROLL ACCOUNT, DOUBT IT LMAO
@@Hedgewisekat ANCIENT EGYPTIANS PAINTED THER GODS BLACK
One minor correction, Egypt under the Ptolemies was not part of Alexander's empire, by the time Cleopatra VII was born Alexander was long dead and his empire divided amongst his generals.
@5:06 I agree with just about everything you said except here. India Ria Amarteifio who played Queen Charlotte is not a blk woman, she is a Mixed-Race woman. Your labeling her as blk when clearly there is no blk person in Africa with her phenotype that is considered blk is rather racist. She clearely is mixed with European. I think you missed that in some of the portrate of Queen Charlotte her phenotype looks like a Mulatto woman, which is obvious why they chose a Mixed-Race phenotype woman.
I literally brought this up to people I’m even friends with. I brought up Anne Bolyne and Ariel, how they praised them for the race swap to a darker skin tone.
Yet rage when it’s a switch to a lighter skin tone, even if it’s the right ethnicity.
That to me is racism against lighter skin colors. They raged to say the least.
Race swapping Anne Boleyn is far fucking worse than Ariel. While I don't agree with Ariel's change, she is a fictional character. Anne Boleyn on the other hand was an actual fucking person lol. The fact that we've gotten to the point in entertainment where race swapping historical figures is fine is asinine to me.
Why do you even associate with those miscreants?
@@LurchyScott yeah, and crossing the damn line. History will remember those woke revisionists as the most vile thing to ever be brought into existence and a disgrace to all mankind.
@@LurchyScott might as well make a new Bruce Lee movie starring Carrot Top😂
Sydney Agudong s father is ethnic Hawaian/Polynesian + Philipino and her mother is white. So she is 50% "brown". But its not enough for woke r acists, they want pure "brown" actress... P.S. 1) There was literally black Nubian dynasty, but they chose the Ptolemaic dynasty to promote "black power" stuff. Whats wrong with these "documentarians"?! 2) Native Egyptians werent realy black. Just look at modern Egyptians. The majority of modern Egyptians identify themselves as Arabs, but in fact about 90% of them are descendants of arabized Egyptians. And a few millions of Egyptians (Copts) are still identify themselves as ethnic Egyptians. They call themselves Remenkemi (from "Kemet" which means "Egypt" in Egyptian) and use Egyptian language in church. So neither Copts or Arabs of Egypt are black in general. The only true black people in Egypt are ethnic Nubians in the south.
Imagine how accurate this documentary will be if they can't even get Cleopatra's skin color right 😂
Yes - and her exact skin color is unknown - we guess mixed :)
It’s not a documentary… it’s Jewish propaganda
@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 "Her exact skin color is unknown" - No, it's pretty well known, since we have the depictions of her from the time and SURPRISE, she was Greek and looked Greek.
@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 She's Greek, you can see an image of left over art of her on Wikipedia and trust me she aint even 'brown'.
@@frostreaper1607 she is most likely mixed, partly greek. if you look into her family tree back 10 generations to Ptolmaio Soter. The correct answer is: we don't know for sure unless we will find her body.
I see videos like this and u say everyone but I only see people that look like you making these type of videos. It would be interesting to see you do a video on the reference’s you’ve made like gods of Egypt and the other 1000’s of references you could use
The amount of assassins creed trailers is great to watch in the background
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell
Fun fact, George Orwell was a die hard left leaning socialist.
Wario???
Gonna butcher this, but "history is written by the survivor". Hollyweird has the loudest voice, the most money, and a sick desire to make mockery of our intelligence.
@@Kiefsti like when they make Jesus white?
@@Kiefsti victor* but yes.
As a Greek I'm all kinds of offended right now .... The audacity of those bastards has no limits ... Love your videos ❤❤❤❤ Much love from Crete ❤❤❤❤
They have done it to us english many times! Netflix need to be taken down.
As a black woman I feel bad for y’all. I just wish they would stop with this nonsense. And yeah Cleopatra was very very white
@@cynthiahembree3957 She wasn't white, but defo not black. Mediterranean to Middle Eastern.
@@AManChoosesASlaveObeys Mediterranean is still white lol
So you're still pissed that Elizabeth Taylor played her....or is Taylor a traditional Helenistic name?
You can't even discuss this shit with people without them being extremly offended and labelling you as a racist.
In the series Troy: fall of a city, Achilles was black, and also the god Zeus. I just couldn't believe it. I loved the original Troy, from 2004 and I love Greek mythology. But I never watched this series because of this.
Glad to see you advocating for a return to entertainment.
Thank you for watching 🤘🏻🔥
Not just entertainment.
Cleopatra was Greek.
What do you mean people of certain groups? Are you suggesting there is a collective mindset with everyone that is not white? It is activists not races of people doing anything., Correct yourself.
It's not politics, it's the investors that are pushing this woke garbage.
Tencent (The Secret Chinese Company That Owns Everything - youtube video ) , a chinesse company that has invested money in the NBA ordered the players to appologize for their support for Hong-Kong during the latest protests ( watch the video and you will see I'm right).
In Asian film industry woke politics does not exist. Why ? Because the chinesse companies that are manipulated by the CCP want to build a strong national unity in their home-country (strong male models for future soldiers for example) but in the western world they want to cause "ideological subversion" like altering historical facts, and "adding gas on fire by pitting to racist and anti-racist movements stronger against each other".
Think about it, the more the western world is conflicted within the more it's too busy to mount a propper economy and functional society, not to mention a functional military.
Chinesse money = chinesse-government influence in hollywood, videogames, books, media, advertisement etc.
Nicolaie Iorga ( a Romanian intellectual and historian) said : " A people that does not know it's own history is like a child that doesn't know it's parrents". Try to research what companies invest in what movies, videogames and media, YOU WILL BE SURPRISED !
@@vertigo2894 there is a collective mindset. Hence modern black americans. I've only met one black person in my many years that shared even remotely the same moral compass
When an Ubisoft game is more historically accurate than a documentary...
To be fair, Ubisoft read books, and consulted with actual Egyptologists and got input from people from all the cultures involved in the game. That's why you have Africans, Greeks, Italians and Persians represented very equally in that game. The game is honestly a real achievement in gaming.
@@alphariusomegon4819 indeed, Origins is a real gem. And the discovery tour was a joy to take
@@TheAquarius87 I kinda want to go replay Origins now. Great game honestly and yes much respect for Ubisofts dedication to their craft
@@cynthiahembree3957 the game really was amazing.
What Ubisoft game?
10:30 btw it already exists a movie about Pelé and it is good (i think its netter not making another one now a days)
Also, now I might be starting to nitpick but was the short screenshot from The Golem at 4:43, starring Paul Wegener, supposed to show him in blackface? It is not, he is a Golem.
Next, Shaka Zullu played by Brad Pitt! 😂
They can only erase the mind of those idiots who can’t name a city outside the USA.
Sure why not? if it fits
I mean as long as it comes out good. Both sides bitch and moan when Hollywood race swaps but every race has had their shit swapped so who cares.
I bet they didn't even know where Omaha is
Nelson Mandela played by Ian McKellen.
No Shaka Zulu should be played by an olive skinned bearded hairy man since they made Cleopatra and Achilles black 😂 Only then we are even 😂
The name Cleopatra is derived from the Greek name Kleopatra, which means "glory of the father." It was a popular name among the Ptolemaic queens and was given to at least seven queens in total. The most famous of these queens was Cleopatra VII, who ruled from 51 BCE until her death in 30 BCE.
now thats new!
I keep hearing “da homie” 😂😂😭
14:17 I am a Croatian citizen and I was disgusted. We Slavs existed LONG before the word Slave existed, we Slavs were the dominant ethnicaty that was enslaved LONG before the french or brits or belgiums conquered all of Africa, but do we get that level of "representation" in western media? NO! We are always the bad guys, who are criminal and worse!
It's even in her name: "Cleopatra" is a Greek name meaning "glory of the father."
Lol. This will hurt Jada and feminists behind this. They don't even know
Ikr!
No Macedonian
Black Greeks, Black Americans, Black Englishmen, Black Germans, etc.. All Americans are not white, and all Greeks were not white. This guy talking in this video sounds like a real racist A$$ ha ha.. A'thiope meaning "Glowing Black, and refers to Black race people, was also the surname of the Chief God ZEUS as he was worshiped n the Greek Island of Chios.. Furthermore, the Black MINOANS who founded the the first Greek civilization on the Island of Crete were not white, but were VERY DARK brown with the skin color of "CHOCOLATE MILK" and COFFEE LATTE. It appears that white racist people want to claim that they founded all civilizations, and invented everything on earth.. That is very absurd to me..
As a Filipino. I feel so offended that we sadly aren't dark enough to become Islanders despite living in an Archipelago.
I understand how you must be feeling. They do this with Indians who have a fairer complexion too. They have a fetish for dark skin it seems.
yeah. and that's despite the fact that we are somewhat genetically related to pacific islanders lol
For me I happy not to be a n word tho
American media depicts Spaniards as looking like Mexicans despite most Spaniards being white as a sheet. Its messed up.
which is funny since Native Hawaiians are migrants just like everybody else in that overpriced island.
They aren't even remotely "native" there and are, like I said, migrants from Austronesia and Filipinos has as much claim as being "Hawaiian" as a "native" one simply because of our very close history both in our similar ancestors and people/trade movements in the region.
It's very ironic to hear blacks and especially white liberals claiming that we aren't "Hawaiian enough" yet in terms of both history, genealogy and culture (hell, there are a lot of word cognates between our country's numerous languages to that of Hawaiian), we are far closer to being "Hawaiian" than they are.
well yeah i understood everything but why the scene of someone getting stabbed at the end of the video?
I don’t care what school says
Abraham Lincoln was a horn of mead
Imagine how many BLM riots will be on streets if they made a MLK documentary and starred Tom Hardy as MLK.
In that case my truck's brakes might fail.
@@CWHaircare According to Andrew Francis Clark, Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Lucie Colvin Phillips, Professor of African Studies in the University of Maryland, "although Diop's work has been influential, it has generally been discredited by historians"
Robert O. Collins, a former history professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, and James M. Burns, a professor in history at Clemson University, have both characterized Diop's writings on Ancient Egypt as "revisionist"
Diop's book Civilization or Barbarism was described as Afrocentric pseudohistory by professor of philosophy and author Robert Todd Carroll. According to Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Diop's works were criticised by leading French Africanists who opposed the radical movements of African organizations against imperialism, but they (and later critics) noted the value of his works for the generation of a propaganda program that would promote African unit. Likewise, Santiago Juan-Navarro, a professor of Spanish at Florida International University described Diop as having "undertaken the task of supporting this Afrocentric view of history from an equally radical and 'mythic' point of view"
Historian Robin Derricourt, in summarizing Diop's legacy, states that his work "increased francophone black pride, though trapped within dated models of racial classification". Stephen Howe, professor of the history of colonialism in Bristol University, writes that Diop's work is built mostly upon disagreements with Victorian-era thinkers like J.J. Bachofen, Lewis Henry Morgan and Friedrich Engels, and criticizes him for "failing to take modern research into account."
Kevin MacDonald, a doctor of archeology, was critical of what he saw as Diop's "cavalier attitude" in making "amateur, non-statistical comparison of languages" between West Africa and Egypt. MacDonald also felt that such attitude showed "a disrespect for the discipline" and for the "methodology of linguistics". He did however state that Diop had asked "appropriate and relevant questions" regarding possible relations between Egypt and the African continent beyond Nubia.
Historian Clarence E. Walker criticizes Diop's claim that Ramses II was black, as being without qualification, a futile exercise and "probably the single most unsuccessful effort on the part of a scholar to determine the racial origins of an Egyptian notable".
Mary Lefkowitz, scholar of Classics, accuses Diop of supplying his readers only with selected and, to some extent, distorted information. She criticizes his methodology, stating that his writing allows him to disregard historical evidence, especially if it comes from European sources.
Historian and classicist Frank M. Snowden Jr. states that Diop misinterprets the classical usage of color words, distorts classical sources and omits Greek and Roman authors, whom he claimed, make a clear distinction between Egyptians and Ethiopians.
No one would care but you snowflakes
That's a stupid statement and a ridiculous stereotype.
True inclusion would be to visualize the amazing stories of people we never heard of instead of appropriate historical figures with easy name recognition.
Hollywood wouldn't do that because they don't take creative risks with exploring new stories anymore. Any movie that comes out is either a remake, sequal, or comes from a popular IP.
@@ashlynnshoolroy28 I guess this "documentary" serves as the perfect example of just how hollow is Hollywood activism.
At this point fuck inclusion. Now I know the myths of not inviting vampires into your home lasted so long. Once they get a foot in the door it's all over. You gate keep for a reason.
True! I would love to see a docu or movie made about the life of the Angolan queen, Nzinga - a fascinating woman with a fascinating story to tell.. but, no, they decide to piggyback off a famous name and make a mockery of Egyptian and Greek history instead.. very, very sad
i swear to god someday they're gonna make a documentary about Caesar and would cast Ken jeong to play as Caesar
Saying cleopatra is black is like saying the color of the sky is violent 😂
Yeah, I don't get it. They also claim to be the Hebrews. How can they be both?
Just wait until say...The 2nd Impact or The Awakening. Maybe even The Calamity-- No wait, that makes the sky orange and thundery.
That’s a bad example cause some times the sky is red
The sky is red whenever a nuke detonated
Except the color of the sky can sometimes be red. All of the Cleopatras will always be Greek Macedonian ethnically.
The executive producer for Cleopatra is Jada Pinkett-Smith. Just look at what she's done to Will Smith, of course she's going to make a woke show. She also claimed that white women with blonde hair trigger her, yet she frequently dyes her hair blonde 🤣
What hair? Ohhhhhhh 😂
@@bonnierabbit1413😂😂
@@bonnierabbit1413 I was about to comment the same thing 😂
Sounds like JPS is a racist, and a hypocrite too.
Triggered by a hair type? What an insane little baby.
The saddest part of this is there IS an actual black empire/kingdom to Egypt's south that no one covers in depth because the records are not quite as good. But yeah, you can have a whole advanced empire of black people that you could look at and write stories for that actually existed, and educate people about stuff that actual black people did.
But no. We don't want to look at the achievements and sacrifices and courage and drama of real black people. We'd rather reinforce that white history is cooler and sexier because the name Cleopatra will sell seats
It’s like “ my grandfather told me you think that Christopher clomps who discovered the Americas, noooooo, he was General Admiral Aladdin”
In the Netflix series not only did they cast a Black actress as Anne Boleyn, they made the Boleyn family Black to show their "outsider status", which is a joke. Thomas Boleyn was part of the court under Henry's father, was raised to the peerage by Henry, was an ambassador for England both before and after Anne's marriage.
It's AMC+ you're talking about not Netflix