Netflix PANICS Cleopatra BACKLASH at Fake Documentary
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- čas přidán 20. 04. 2023
- Queen Cleopatra is a new Netflix supposed documentary from producer Jada Pinkett Smith. While it is well known that Cleopatra was Greek, the Netflix show has decided to ignore history, prompting a lawsuit from an Egyptian lawyer who says Netflix is not respecting Egyptian culture, values or principles. From the trailer, we can probably answer the question, is Queen Cleopatra worth watching?
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Queen Cleopatra on Netflix isn't a topic I had planned to talk about until I saw the actress attacking the fans. Then the more I looked into it, the more laughable it got. That trailer was absolutely laughable when combined with Jada Smiths comments about how authenticity and strict facts were what was important to her documentary/docudrama. At least people tried to get away with this before by saying "inspired by", but claiming documentary status is a new level of gall. No wonder they're getting sued! But what do you think? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)
I agree England have a great history and makes leftoids seething, It's the same over here in Sweden.
“So the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into your house, into your bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your servants, on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls. And the frogs shall come up on you, on your people, and on all your servants.” Exo: 8:3-4
This is so ** stupid. If they wanted to have a story about a black queen, they could have picked Amanitore, which is close in both time and location to Cleopatra, and unlike her, makes a far better main character because she was an actual warrior queen, had real power and did a lot of great works during her reign, all while leaving behind sparse details about her life to allow for imagination to fill the gaps and make a more entertaining show.
What a ** mess
I believe you spelled CleoBlacktra incorrectly.
All Hail Jada Pinkett Smith: Queen of De-Nile!
That moment when Assassin’s Creed is more historically accurate than a historical documentary.
Oh. Oh dear.
Or HBO's Rome.
Ironically, the Creed states:
“nothing is true, everything is permitted.”
I mean, Assassin's creed has always been accurate on a surface level, whilst the lore is just old conspiracy theory that were around the internet in the 90s.
AC unity was used to rebuild a historical site in France, I think Notre Dame but I haven't read the story in awhile so not sure.
Just saying, AC should get a little more credit.
HAHA! On point.
This is ACTUAL cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is not wearing clothes from a culture that’s not yours, it’s not using the same honorifics or greetings from that culture while not being of that culture. It’s stuff like THIS, where someone actively race swaps a major historical figure from another culture and then tries to portray that as historically accurate.
Very true
Isn't cosplaying another ethnic group a big No-No for the woke crowd?
And selectively breading certain people out of existence is soft genoc!de. It's all just another average Thursday at netflix. Nothin' to see here. :/
Seriously. Where's the brigade this time around?
It only counts when it's white people doing it I guess.
they race swapped the whole egyptian people. They were not black. It all comes from that false premise. So yes they are appropriating the entirety of someone else's history. I support the egyptians here. And they're are being treated as if they have no say in the matter , it's so disrespectful. Cleopatra was greek , and the people of egypt were anatolian mediteraneans , similar to the populations of the levant.
"My nan always said Cleopatra was black"
Well, that settles it. No reason to doubt random woman's nan.
wait...was this the same nan that taught her how to masturbate at 10????
As a Greek guy myself this whole situation gives me PTSD. In call of duty advanced warfare there was a mission in Santorini (a greek island for those who dont know), and sometime during the mission you go through a local people's market. And almost all of the residents are... black. Dont get me wrong we do have Greeks now like Giannis Antetokoumpo with dark skin colour etc but its still a significantly smaller percentage comparing to usa, so makinh almost every resident black is absurd. Usa is pushing their cultural appropriation on us again for no reason, just because they are obsessed the last 10 years about black people being everywhere. And with that to Will i say "leave my history out of your fucking wife's mouth"
Welcome to what’s going on regarding my name with wyt peeps. This kind of re-writing of history is a part of the process.
And just look at what this guy shows in 08:02 - he’s already so beat down that he’s too scared to say the word lsIamic because of what his country’s laws are in silencing him!
He also went along with the idea that Cleopatra was Egyptian and not Euro/Greek!
_ALSO,_ 10:03 how in the world is Gal Gadot more appropriate?? She is just as inappropriate as the actress that was chosen!
in rainbow six siege, the operator osa is a perfect example of this. Croatia is a small nation however the "USA" mentality chose to represent something that is such a tiny tiny part of culture that 99.9% of people are pissed that the one operator that get's to represent our proud nation is well a disapointment and honestly misrepresentation of Croatia to the entire rest of the world that plays the game. All because some idiot thought it was a good idea to paint Croatia as a "diverse" nation. This could not be further from the truth and it's hurtful how among the absurd amount of achievements people in this country have along with specialists that are a perfect fit for the game they chose this. This is our current reality. Unforgivable.
Then again today's greeks think spartans and hellenics looked like them which is just as absurd as a black cleopatra.
Oh they have a reason. Just not a good one.
As an Egyptian, I share your pain and understand it completely. The blacks are so jealous of Mediterranean history that they are claiming to own it, meaning legitimately appropriating it, while simultaneously projecting by claiming that “everyone” has always tried to “steal” from them. Afrocentrism is a crime against world history and heritage, and a massive insult to Mediterranean people. I hate how black-washing and cultural appropriation is allowed if a south western African is doing it. This isn’t fair!
"She resonates with every woman...but I can only relate if she looks like me." Very sound logic.
I can do you one better: I'm interested enough in the subject material to know Cleopatra was Greek-Macedonian. But these people want to play the "I imagine" game and claim something that isn't theirs. Which is ironic.
But even so, lets play along...
I'm not white, I'm not American, I live in Asia. "I imagine" Cleopatra is Michelle Pfieffer.
The people making this trash have no idea how nuts they actually are
I don't understand the current Hollywood mindset - they have a lot to feel guilty about from the portrayal of native americans in westerns and far east asian Yellow Peril sterotypes before and during the war.
But their course correction has gone too far the other way with inappropriate "diversity" casting and are now repeating the same mistakes.
Get em
@@tma2001 these people aren't human. They're like aliens trying to pretend to be human but fail repeatedly
Jada's definition of History is right up there with her definition of marriage.
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Oof. I think I just got burns by proxy. 🤣
Please show Jada some respect... after all she's got a History degree from the university of Wakanda ! 😉
Fuck everything you see. 👌
@@Valecto until she gets a fat f at an actual history school.
Strange how Jada always runs her mouth about the lack of ‘black queens’ in Hollywood movies…yet she chooses to appropriate a Greek/Macedonian instead of portraying a real black Queen
Maybe there's no such thing....at least I've never heard something about a "black queen".
Everyone talking about cultural appropriation does not understand history and cultural exchange. As a Greek this pisses me off even more
Jada is a known psychopath
@@MrMissingReelThere were several black queens in history. The reason why we don't know about them is because they've hardly ever been represented in modern media.
@@laysmaxx5789 right
“It is unfortunate for a lot of nations that the English kept… such great records.”
I laughed so hard at that line.
Some subtle but sharp barbs here, good stuff.
This is the real cultural appropiation.
Em cheio! 🎯🎯
FR they're always the victim and will continue to use that mindset for everything.
Cultural appropriations- who's the winning group
EXACTLY THIS... I really hope they get sued to the dirt for what they are doing.
@@seokjinniesunite4339 yes especially when they are calls Dutch braids a pure European concept dating back several thousand years
I studied history at university . one of the first and most important things they teach you is to never look at the past through modern glasses. The term for this is presentism and it’s one of the worst mistakes you can make as a historian. If my professors watch this they will drink themselves to death.
I always look at the past with National Socialist glasses, since i noticed giants censorships
You mean you cannot look at The 10 Commandments and pretend that the Hebrews were like a Liberal Democracy who followed god's law, whereas the Egyptians were horrible people who enslaved others, especially the chosen ones. We know The 10 Commandments is inaccurate because Ramses the Great had slightly more than one child. I am fairly sure your professors have heard worse and go on evening walks instead.
I'm a bit of a history enthusiasts (I doubt I know as much as you) and seeing this feels like a slap in the face. And the worst part is that my generation will sometimes look at BS like this and think it's Diversity when it clearly isn't. If anything it's Tokenism.
Finally, someone that gets it. I'm not a history major or even interested in history as a hobby, but whenever I learn about some historical Era, civilization, or person, I don't look at their actions through the lens of today, it just doesn't make sense to do so. Now, that is all people do. Everyone hates on Lincoln, George Washington, and the US founding fathers in general, because they weren't "progressive" like we are today. I never understood Hamilton. It's like suddenly the historical figures the woke hated because of their "lack of inclusion" are suddenly cool when you change their skin color.
University teachers sadly receive training as well about the issues of "minorities" and "women." I visited my faculty, architecture, and it was filled with cautions against male toxicity and other things. Teachers accept it and push it because indoctrination in the name of a progress that is actually very old.
As an Egyptian myself, I couldn't agree & relate more. Egyptian history is marvelous and frankly nobody gives a damn about American guilt syndrome, i don't feel angry or outraged by people with no culture or history trying to steal mine, all i feel towards them is pity, it's extremely sad and pathetic that someone has to subconsciously tell themselves a lie and live in it cause they are so desperate to find an identity.
and FYI our ex minister of Antiquities (yes we do have an entire ministry for our history) the greatest egyptologist of all time, prof. Zahi Hawas descredited the show,calling out the afrocentric movement and black washing, meh...just sad.
He was a damn crook. Melinated Egyptians were pushed out by the white Arabs etc. South Sudan is where your Egyptians reside👍🏿
@@will35719711 wrong the found many mumies with middle eastern features but 0 with african features good try american.
The saddest part is that black Americans do have a rich culture and musical tradition in America that they can celebrate, without thinking they were Egyptian pharos.
@@tomrotelli1355 we know that Egyptians that are there not aren’t the original people and you guys practice ethic cleansing and pushed the dark skins out but me a so called blk American could care less it’s crazy seeing this comments of blasphemy the audacity it’s atrocious I haven’t seen one comment telling the truth abt kemet there connections with the Nubians nothing just comments of hate and ignorance
As an admirer of Egyptian history, its honestly just sad what they are trying to do here.
You know what's crazy? She could've used this opportunity to make a documentary on some of the amazing stories of African Nations that you hardly ever hear about, like the Nubians (modern day Sudan just south of Egypt), who for a time actually conquered the egyptians and were Pharoahs. In other words, there was a time where there were actually Black Pharoahs and a Black Skinned, Pyramid building civilization, and instead she chose a time frame where the Pharoahs were Greek...
That is the one good thing I can say about the Woman King. At least they shown light on an ignored history.
Excuse me, what stories? Africa had tribes not countries. There were no written languages and no cities from Khatoom to Great Zimbabwe, which wasn't built by the locals because they had no metal tools. until 1500 or any 2 storie structures from the western Sahara to Cape town. All construction was created by the Arabs or Europeans. Africa has no stories that are not made up or about the Zulus who killed anyone who wouldn't be their slave. Have you been to Africa?
Excuse me there are no African nations no countries no stories no written language and no cities and towns just single story huts.just tribes trying to kill each other. Stealing other people's history is all Africa has. Remember Wakanda. Alot of stupid folks believed that too. These people need to get a life and a history because they ain't welcome to mine.
@@garyturner5810 Wait, what? Wasn't the Ge'ez used in Abyssinia since 1st century AD?
What? And make the poor woman read a book?
“If you don’t like it, don’t watch it” I remember when Frosk tried that approach, it tanked the entire company!
Kelly Sue DeConick vibes from all of these morons. "If you don't like it, don't watch it." Done.
"I hate all of our customers" is marketing genius! It's so clever how the rival company managed to get their employee to say this. Corporate espionage extremely well-executed.
To be fair, G4s business model wasn't sustainable to begin with, so Frosk just accelerated the inevitable collapse.
'It wasn't made for you'
Okay plank
If it was a fictional story, fine, make it any way you want. It is being portrayed as factual history so it isn't I don't like it; it is a lie. It is an intentional lie to denigrate white culture, history and advance a false black history. We have a complete genealogy of Cleopatra. The very reason the family line is so incestuous is because the rulers must come from the royal bloodline to be legitimate rulers. So it is not ambiguous, there is no doubt and there are absolutely zero experts who disagree.
When did her ethnicity become a mystery? She was Greek. Her historic likeness looks like a current Greek skintone. I wonder if Netflix's first instinct was to make her a mermaid?!
It's not a mystery, it's just Hollywood wants to rewrite everything pre-1960 as being black now.
Considering the way she looked in sculptures etc... It's likely that the rumor about her mother is true, that her mom was Egyptian. The rumor coupled with the fact she was the first in her line to speak Egyptian and have more of a connection to Egyptians just increases the odds.
Netflix has a habit to change Greek historical figures to black, i can't wait for a black Alexander the Great now
@@vertigo2894 there is absolutely no proof for that. Most historians and egyptologist would tell you, Cleopatra V is most likely to be her mother. Also, she spoke Egyptian but she also spoke a ton of other languages like Ethiopian, Hebrew, Arabic, Parthian, Median and many others. Her speaking Egyptian doesn't mean anything. If we take that as proof, then why Egyptian and not any of the other languages she spoke? See, that argument is ridiculous
Even if her mother was Egyptian they weren't black. She would be Mediterranean at most.
There is literally art from Cleopatra's time showing her as European.
As an Egyptian, thank you for your honesty.
Bro the Egyptian that live in that land now migrated to that land THEY ARE NOT ARAB THEY CANNOT TRACE THERE FAITH BACK TO THOSE PYRAMIDS THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PRACTICE PAGANISM WITH THERE MANY GODS ISLAM PRACTICE TOTALLY DIFFERENT
@@winn7EVEN I totally didn’t get what you mean
@@winn7EVEN what is the problem with religion to the DNA 🧬 , Egyptians converted from paganism to Judaism to Christianity to Islam over the centuries where is the issue !!
@@winn7EVEN Ancient populations don't just disappear. Modern Egyptians share a lot of DNA with ancient Egyptians. But keep in mind: Cleopatra was not Egyptian, but Greek.
Not only Cleopatra was as white as any Greek, but her family, the Ptolemies, had adopted the customs of the pharaohs - including marrying siblings together in order not to dilute their power. So, not even mixed marriages are even remotely possible.
Well, Cleopatra was into mixing bloodlines(with Marc Anthony), but her ancestors weren't I guess.
You are only part right. The Ptolemy line was Macedonian-Persian/Syrian on her paternal grandfather's line. Her paternal grandmother, we don't know. Her father was called the bastard, so it's a big chance her paternal grandmother was a concubine. Her mother was either her father's half-sister or someone we don't know. We should also add that because of many incests in the family; the women might have gotten help getting pregnant by servants.
@@pellejoens7886 Hmmm yeah, but they'd choose servants that wouldn't be immediately obvious. Let's face it, humans have known for thousands of years that you inherit your looks from your parents. You don't need "science" to tell you that, it's a simple observation.
@@marhawkman303That is true, but the family went downhill after several generations of inbreeding. They got some new Syrian(Persian) blood with Cleopatra I. Cleopatra VII, our Cleopatra, was probably highly clever. That would have been unlikely with all the inbreeding over many generations. We also do not know Cleopatra VII's paternal grandmother or mother. The latter is probably her father's (The bastard) half-sister, but we are not sure.
@@pellejoens7886 at any rate Cleopatra looked like a descendant of Ptolemy.
There's a certain group of people who are desperate to make Egypt black for some reason, and the people who want this are not Egyptian.
They are getting pissed off about t too. And unlike England, Egyptians don't take that shit sitting down.
Cleopatra wasn’t even Egyptian, she was Greek Macedonian, so she was about as white as you can possibly get.
@@als3022 It's because Egypt's past is the only thing they have going for them. They're like a person who peaked in high school and love to remember their glory days.
makes me wonder how they plan to handle slaves in this "documentary"
What is black..... please explain what it is and were on the map you find an area called black.??? Was it a creation by this who so call themselves white
Man, this whole woke shit is becoming a real problem. Especially in the US.
This shit has just gotten completely nuts, but it hides under the cover of morale. Its insane.
And its not even like people are furious because they want to have white characters, male characters or straight characters. Its because they want to have authentic characters, not trans/gay/female/black/asian characters just for the sake of wokeness and pseudo tolerance. Its even worse in a context like this, where you do a show about a historical figure and completely change the figure lol.
Nobody has cried loud that the Spartans in 300 weren't gay couples.
The mighty USA has fallen and turned into a modern day Babylon. Wickedness rules the day.
It's no surprise they're openly trying to weaponize historical revisionism, it's not enough to indoctrinate the next generation into such retarded ideologies, they know they gotta obfuscate how terrible they really are just in case people start asking questions later.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
It would be bad enough if they were making a movie with a black Cleopatra, but they can always fall back to "it's a movie who cares". They're making a documentary or a docuseries where they are literally telling you that Cleopatra was black. Documentaries are supposed to be informative and shit, so they're already lying to you at the start.
Writer: So, I have an idea for a se--
Studio: "Black"
Writer: I'm sorry, what ar--
Studio: "We're not racist. Black."
Writer: It's Egypt.
Studio: "BLACK!"
Writer: I guess we cou--
Studio: "BLACK PEOPLE!"
Exactly. And since they no longer read books, this will no doubt be taught or assigned to every CRT “sanctioned” inner city school across the country, thus revising history completely.
They changed the definition of "documentary" to mean "something that used to be informative, but now is only slightly informative with a focus on made-up-nonsense".
@@booshmcfadden7638 to be honest. If they wanted black egyptians, they just had to go further into the past. Egypt was ruled by nubians for quite a while. It just doesnt work for the very greek cleopatra.
@@booshmcfadden7638 Histrionics are remarkably exhausting to deal with in person. Histrionic Studios must be a living nightmare to work inside and are be$t not $upported.
Hollywood: "Hey, let's continue to insult the international community while making us look like complete idiots in the process!" Mission accomplished.
😂😂😂😂😂 okay that’s it best comment I need a good laugh 😆 😂
100% correct 😂😂😂
US at it's finest.
Your comment holds even more weight and humour when you read Jada Pinkett Entanglement Smith say, "I wanted to tell the stories of these black queens but I didn't have access to them."
Fucking what?! She makes it sound like she face-timed four old people in Egypt, and that was all the research.
Black Adam wasn't a great movie, but at least they took some time and made better shit up.
I am afraid they think they are smart and their viewers only a bunch of sheep that is unable to articulate historical facts. I wonder how many new websites are reflecting a narrative different than Netflix''s.
You know it is one messed up documentary when Assassin's Creed Origins depicted Cleopatra more accurately
Expecting a good result with the lawsuit by the Egyptians. And I totally agree with you! We have many Egyptian history experts in Japan. I wonder what’s their opinion….
It won't even make it to a court.
"It's possible she was an Egyptian."
Even if it was true, Egyptians are considered to be white or at most Middle Eastern, definitely not black.
Middle Eastern, aka Semitic.
@@MephiticMiasma That's not right either. Ancient Egptians didn't speak a Semetic language. The Arabs didn't invade and colonize Egypt until like 700 years after Cleopatra's time
🤫 you are not supposed to know about history
Modern Egyptians dummy are classified as Caucasian, which is an anthropological classification, which has nothing to do with ancient population of Egypt, classified by physical anthropologist as Hamitic like Ethiopians and Somalis.
I seen lots of Black people in Egypt
It's really funny as an Egyptian who lives in Egypt it's really funny seeing a western Hollywood "Netflix" trying to educate me about my own history 😂😂😂
Unfortunately they are not trying to educate you, they are trying to erase your history and that of the rest of the world, to justify their fantasy that all the great civilizations were created by blacks.
IS it your history or your country's history? Present day Egyptians are Arabs and do not share Ancient Egyptian culture.
@@shadowess1961 that’s what happens when you learn history from your grandma 😂😂😂
@@Sema-Tawy He's quite right, the most part of modern egyptians are descendants of the arab muslim invasions. It's the Copts who are closer to ancient egyptians (genetics, langage,...). Fun fact : modern egyptians are closer to black africans than ancient egyptians were, according to the DNA studies, due to genetic mixing post roman era.
Also, Cleopatra was from a lineage of invaders who kept power and she slept with other invaders (romans). History is history, nothing to be proud of. In France (my country), a lot of people are ignorant about french history...
PS : I don't support the black Cleopatra theory.
@@chrisl5582 The revolutionaries destroyed the beautiful history of the French people and this country's deep connection with the Church.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot" - Mark Twain. The quote should be updated and say: "No amount of evidence will ever persuade woke idiots".
Not all idiots are woke though. That said, the vast majority of woke people are idiots.
They were many black princesses in Africa more than Cleopatra in Egypt. Why can't they choose that?
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped"-George Orwell 1984
I could almost be glad that in unlike the US or UK, in Continental europe, the youth is getting lore right then left,
I say "could" because with right wing i mean lore often than not radical right wing, like here in germany the AFD Party, a nazi party in all but name
Big brother is watching.
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past". The greater Orwell's significance, the worse things are. And, right now, he's hugely significant.
Wow...that actually sounds like something the people who believe everyone from history was actually black, would say.
Romans were actually black.
Vikings were actually black.
Egyptians were actually black.
The Hebrews were actually black.
Black Jesus.
Native Americans were really black.
Original Muslims were black.
The Olemecs were black.
The original Chinese empire were black.
I know I am forgetting some or probably misspelling some, but there it is.
It's just bizzare.
@@solsticequeen Or how about this civilization started in Africa so the first people were black. Uh no Tyrone the start of human civilization their was no such thing as Africa Asia Europe basically countries and continents were not a thing. Everyone pretty much looked the same. So how could there be black and white when everyone looked the same? People changed melatonin and established cultures through years of human evolution.
As someone who loves and cares deeply about history, Hollywood’s “Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to” mentality doesn’t sit well with me. So I just tend to avoid anything “based on a true story” as much as possible.
Movies like Waterloo or Zulu were made many years ago. By people who cared about the story and history. Today? They care about what they can “teach” us. And destroy and rewrite
Once they got away with "Roots" it just kept getting more fictional.
Ehhh, while I agree historical movies were in a 'slightly' better place...let's not pretend that the classics were bastions of historical accuracy either. Take the ones you mentioned there, I love both and are quite rightly regarded as classics of cinema. But from a historical perspective...both made their own little changes here or there for the purposes of being entertainment and drama first and foremost, and historical second.
But that's a difference, in itself. Those are both movies, created for entertainment first and foremost. This Cleopatra thing is, supposedly, a documentary/docudrama. Education 'should' be first, and entertainment second. The priorities should be different.
There is a term for what they are doing. Cultural hegemony aka Cultural marxism, they just call it a "racist conspiracy theroy" to keep people away from it and realizing it's real, and it's happening.
If Cleopatra were black, she would have dont piledriver on Ceasar and not some wimpy suicide like a white girl
As a black American man can u or anyone here provide archeological/historical sources from reliable historians stating that her mother was white, greek or Persian. No one know how her skin color looks like, because they were no artists to ever drew her actual skin color, NONE, ZERO paintings of this woman in her actual skin color; Any paintings you see going around are all fakes and nothing as yet confirmed by any reliable historians. Ancient Egypt was a black african civilization her mother was black Egyptian her father might have been Greek but her mother was black. And dont give me the Egyptians wasn’t black nonsense I have DNA test of all tested pharaohs and all were tropical black africans.
Must admit, I find it more alarming how so many people these day find it difficult to empathise with those who dont look like them. 1980s, 1990s had lots of movies i empathised with characters who were a different skin colour and even sex from myself. But nowadays, there are a lot of people who lack the ability to empathise with anyone outside of themselves. It makes me wonder if there is anything we can do to help fix this issue. Otherwise, we will just continue to have more of these sorts of propaganda attempts, which are a lazy persons attempt at re-writing history. Will definitely be interesting to see how they respond to Egypt suing them. Is it racist to resist cultural appropriation?
The great thing is that now everyone will question and research the source of every documentary. It's a good thing because this is not the first time "experts" have tried to bamboozle us.
To add another wrinkle, Ancient Egyptian weren't even black either. According to DNA testing of mummies, they are more related to people from the Near East and Mediterranean Europe, being closely related to Levantines, people around ancient Jerusalem.
Due to the Sahara Desert, they were not related to sub-Saharan Africans, who are depicted differently on Egyptian artwork when showing people from ancient Nubia.
Ramses the great was a red head
They even had a word for the place black people lived....Al-Sudan
Yes, Nubian was the word the ancient Egyptians used for sub-Saharan Africans. The Egyptians were physically distinct from Nubians.
Ayo! Hol up! Is u sayin we wuzn’t Kangz?! Sheeeeiiit
In my Ancient Egypt history class (taught by an Egyptian professor) at university in the 1990s, a woke student insisted that Egypt was called 'the black land' because of their skin color. The professor explained that Egyptians weren't black. It was called the black land because of the soil.
”Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That’s not history, that’s psychiatry.”
- Edward Koch
Not a lot of respect for psychiatry here. Maybe that's earned, but I believe therapy that's based on lies is, in the long run, destructive.
Hollywood has done it for years with native Americans and blackface for starters. How about legendary lawman Bass Reeves
being played by Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger?
@@MrCeora you understand, if us americans have nothing against it that there is history is changed for modern audiences than nowone can say anything about it, but that doesn't mean other country must aceept it. The us is a very very young country with almost no history that is important.
But if they make a Dokumentation about greek any egyptian history, and change important stuff, this is an insult too these country's, and they have a right too complain because it is there history not your country's history.
You can change your history like you want, but respect the history of other country's most of them are very proud of it because it is very very old. If you change it you change there culture there indentity and everything that makes these country's different from others.
You need permission too do it in the first place if you don't have it expect that they do somthing about it.
You can't just go around and insult every country and there legacy like you want.
It doesn't matter if you like it or not you have no right too change history of an country like you want.
@@MrCeora so like you implied you would be ok, if Hollywood make a hisorical Dokumentation of j.f.k. and you would like it if he was portrayed by an Chinese trans guy, or Malcolm x played by an russian guy with white skin, blue eyes and blond Hair.
Interesting too know. Than the history of your country is not important at all for your people, they can change everything like they want.
Sad really sad.
MLK was Mexican we claim him 😂 since we changing history
Just found you with this video :) Your speaking facts love it :) Unfiltered and to the point!
The last five minutes of this are the most incisive brilliant critique. Thanks so much Disparu.
She slept with the most powerful Roman men for the sake of power positioning. What a role model Jada!
Not to mention Cleopatra bumped off her own siblings to become pharaoh which to be fair common for any ruler in order to keep themself on the throne.
A perfectly good example for any actress, really.
Not to mention that those Roman men would never have hooked up with a black chick in these times
@@DarkSun123456789 lol
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au contraire. Emperor Tiberius had no boundaries, none at all. He had his own Epstein island for fun in the sun.
Interesting that out of all the actresses, they just had to pick Jada, who is quite the vile manipulative woman.
I honestly can't even imagine cheating on someone and then not just suggesting doing, but _actually_ doing an interview with the spouse that you cheated on to hear how the spouse felt about it. I can't comprehend that at all.
She is the producer not the actress but still you are right SMFH
Well if she wanted a response it would have been everyone finding out that I'll be getting a divorce. After all she literally confessed her infidelity on live TV. Can you get anymore of a reason then that ? 🤨
You cant comprehend a delusional, narcisistic person actions
Well, when you're married to a snowflake pansy.
I don’t think they picked her per se. I bet it was her idea and the morons went with it. They should get Zahi Hawass he’s an Egyptian archaeologist in charge of all the digs and most if not all of Ancient Egyptian archives. He’d put them all straight. He’s medium skin tone Not Black and knows more Egyptian history then Jada ever will
Want to see this lawsuit live! Go Egypt and Greece, protect your history
Oh, I didn't know the Executive Producer is Jada Pinkett Smith.
This explains everything!
I still don't get...WHY Hollywood?? Why change the race of a historical figure when you could shine a light on some ACTUAL African boss queens like Yaa Asantewaa of modern-day Ghana, Amina Mohamud from modern-day Nigeria, Empress Kandake from Ethiopia, Makeda from Ethiopia, Moremi from Nigeria, the list goes on!!
But no, Hollywood won't give the black community the cool true stories they've likely never heard about from the homeland of their ancestors. They just recast someone popular as being black like all the other films do now because doing research and being creative is actually work instead of being a lazy paycheck that they can act self-righteous about.
Because current Hollywood has no interest in accuracy, even in documentaries. They only care about agenda and twisting or re-writing history to fit this agenda. It's actually pushing passed "Just consume product" to "hand over your brains, you won't be needing them, take these that we just made since they're 'better' anyway". They pretty much took BLM and twisted it into a nightmarish abomination that outright attacks absolutely everything white (and male/redheaded) and never be fed.
Why give black people anything to aspire to when you can use their desire for representation to turn everyone against them? Thereby reinforcing the victim narrative Hollywood has been forcing down their throats.
The truth is they don't care about black people.
They hate black people too.
They just hate white people more.
Same thing with myths and superheroes... if they want super heroes who are black, why not tell truly African myths ... why sprinkle black people over the history, mythology and fairy tales of Europe? Why not give us original tales from Africa?
Jada is an idiot and superficially afro supporter, she takes from Caucasians and the popularity the Caucasians created on their own, and she wants a piece of that, she doesn't care about her real heritage or importance, she cares to show off to white people.
FINALLY people are realizing this. Hollywood doesn't care about black culture. They only care about erasing white culture. Period.
But it's an issue when a native Hawaiian is too 'light skinned.'
I’m from Hawaii, those clowns don’t even know what they’re talking about. The overwhelming majority of people who live here are mixed race with something else. We have some half white/Hawaiians who on the outside look 100% white.
The people of this world are so screwed up
It's time Egypt copyright their Cleopatra.
What's funny is the part in the trailer where the woman says "its possible that she was Egyptian".... Egyptians don't look like that neither. Believe me, I'M EGYPTIAN!!! 🤦
I thought everyone knew Cleopatra was Greek. I learned that in World History in the 70's and in encyclopedias. You know..those things we used before the internet.
Actually Macedonian, decedent of Alexandra the Great
Oh they know alright, the facts just doesn't fit their narative.
@@crazylesfarkas4486 A) The ancient Macedonians were Greek, so he isn't wrong.
B) She wasn't a descendant of Alexander the Great. She was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander's top generals.
Macedon was an ethnically Greek kingdom
I might have snoozed through history but even I know Cleopatra wasn’t black.
Changing & distorting history is unforgivable!
As someone with a deep passion for history, this is a major trigger button for me >:(
@@Lionstar16 I'm right with you there, history (both good & bad) should be respected & learned from in my eyes.
Real African Peoples & History: **Exists**
Jada PoS: Hol my purple drank while I put yall in blackfase.
A death penalty should given out for that. Even fot thr "actors"
Yea but that like just your opinion tho, dude.
As an Egyptian, I can't agree more, you said all what I want to say. Imagine Martin Luther king or Mohamed Ali were played by a white actor!!!!...
It's not a black or white, it's about facts and credibility.
Great video! I am joining this channel without even check the other content
i really hope something happens with that lawsuit and that more lawyers follow suit and try to protect their heritage from this horrible wide-scale wave of gaslighting.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO guess whites are Ethiopians next too.. you’re already Native American in movies, Mexican in Movies. You are the Australians the ancient Egyptians in Africa so why not just take the rest.
I never see Jews complaining about Jesus Christ being depicted with blond hair and blue eyes yet I see all the proud white people in the comments trying to protect someone that historically may not even have existed, yet alone lived in Africa a predominantly black Continent in the first place.
Nothing will happen because it was filed from Egypt and two, Netflix is an entertainment platform. Just don't watch it if it bothers you so much.
@@FLeigh12 It's not present day Egyptians heritage. Present day Egyptians are Arabs. It's not their culture. It is part of the history of that land.
I know people from the Mediterranean tan easily, but that's the deepest tan I've ever seen in a Greek.
I don't know about Smith, but I'm pretty well versed about Cleopatra, at least in regards to her relationship with Rome. I don't know where she gets this shit. Yes she spoke Egyptian and was the first Ptolemy to do so, but wasn't Egyptian; she was Macedonian.
Here’s the thing in their minds Egyptian’s might as will be black but the truth is at most they’re mixed the closer to Greece the lighter they get and the closer to Africa the darker they get.
Yes, I think she spoke 7 languages.
@@superiorrule34 The Ancient Egyptians were not black, not just the Pharaohs. They represented the kind of civilization that existed with the type of people during their time. The artwork also depicts the pharaohs with the same skin tones and facial shapes as the average Egyptian. Since we still have Pharaoh mummies to pull record from, we know they were most certainly not African black by any stretch of the imagination. Thus it's easy to also conclude and extrapolate to the civilization as a whole. They seem to have genetic markers that trace back to pre Egypt to the Island of Crete with their bull cult worship. Prior to that these people's genetics trace back to somewhere in the Caucus mountains which go back to before the ice age. Anything doing with black Africans in ancient Egypt only came after the civilization fell and a Nubian king declared himself as that land's ruler during that time thousands of years later. That has to be where this fiction gets any of it's legs - in a time where the civilization was sacked by an outside enemy.
Then of course Egypt's character has changed many times, especially since they became an Islamic nation. They're a different civilization than they once were, effectively an entirely different founding stock of people now long gone.
@@Knight_Kin thank you I did not know this.
Tell that to a demented, racist, afro-centrist goon...............
We have a head statue and paintings of cleopatra where you can clearly see she is caucasoid. She was macedonian-greek. There is also documentation regarding her lineage and also geographically for that time period it makes sense that she would be macedonian-greek.
My Nanny always told me, "I don't care what they tell you in school, I will always believe that George Washington was a Chupacabra".
Netflix being so reckless with their materials, finally stepped on someone's biggest toes... And yes, it's their own fault
It’s no surprise really, especially if you see who the majority shareholder is? Hint: he funds every anti American alphabet organization in the country, right down to the pallet of bricks to throw through business owners window when some thug gets shot!
You'd think that after Harry & Megan they'd learn that shows based in bullshit isn't good for them.
Who runs netflix i think its indirectly making racism grow up with this stupid woke agenda.
Im also sure Mike Tyson is actualy white
Cleopatra wasnt white so get the F out of here .. find me sources from historian saying she was white .. the only white greek man that saw the family strabo stated mix race.
She wasnt white or Mediterranean mostly mix race
Mr Stalin also liked to re-write history.
Just cancelled my Netflix. Fed up with the BS
Honestly I think we need to roast her with the jokes that Chris Rock had made about her having no hair. Gal Gadot would be a better looking Cleopatra.
true Gal would of nailed it.
@@Linkthepichu If she learned to act at some point, yes, she'd probably nail it.
She would have been far more realistic, also.
i think jada just benefits from pretty privelege, doesnt really have to think. just show up.
@@mqjira pretty? 🤢
Jada's really stepping in it. By saying that there are tons of stories about great black women, then lying about them, she's basically saying there aren't that many, at least not enough or great enough to talk about. Was this the message she wanted to send? Just talk about REAL stories, not just FAMOUS ones
Ironically there are indeed several Egyptian pharaohs who were both black and women.
Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Sobekneferu and Merneith - such a rich history ignored to obsess over a historical figure so clearly Greek and not black that they really are just trolling at this point.
She didn't have access to those other stories because that would require her to read a book.
@@13tuyuti Even bad literacy isn't an excuse in the world of internets and documentaries.
@@mnomadvfx the excuse is not bad literacy. The excuse is laziness. To be fair to Jada: if Netflix paid me millions to do shoddy work I'd totally do shoddy work.
I ask myself why these people want to steal other people's history and culture. There is only one answer. They don't have the history and culture of their own so have to steal other people's to feel relevant. So sad.
I imagine Cleopatra to be a conqueror of Italy and the inventor of pizza. That's why every pizza without figs and dates cannot be counted as authentic Italian pizza. Also breaking spaghetti is totally legit culinary tactic in Italy since Cleopatra said so.
..."the exact moment his soul left his body." You are a steely-eyed missile man! Epic! Don't ever stop. I subscribed immediately. All good wishes.
One thing that bothers me about this race swapping of historical figures is that it craps on historians who actually spend their lives finding this stuff out. The fact we know what someone 2,000+ years ago is a testament to those studying history, the wealth of material about her, and a willingness of so many people to take the time catalogue all this.
Noticed they use historically accurate costumes, sets, looks, jewelry, etc. but then they race swap and then say 'It is an interpretation' or something.
Historical figures have been race swapped way before this. Somehow all of them were always Caucasian, even though the majority of them were not.
Not one historian knows who her mother is. Race swapping how? The actress is of mixed race but everyone is calling her a Black actress, what are you even saying?
@@shadowess1961 So, her mother could have been chinese or scandinavian... Still, informations historians gathered about Cleopatra VII don't indicate she was radically different from the other members of her dynasty. Portrayals of her, writings about her, etc... Suspected mother is from her family of inbreds (Cleopatra V).
And ancient egyptians weren't black but mostly bronze-tanned. DNA studies show they were close to Middle East people, with little parts of mediterranean europeans and subsaharians (black africans).
I agree, the actress is mixed. But it's the people from the documentary that identify her as black...
@@chrisl5582 Ancient Egyptian specifically depicted themselves as being Black because that’s what they actually were, DNA evidence always comes back as them being Nubian, then it’s changed to Caucasian.
@@elijahhayes8615 Which DNA study ? I refer to this one : "Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods " (May 2017, published in Nature)
Look at Fig. 3 a, where they compare DNA from 3 periods of ancient Egypt + 2 modern Egyptian and Ethiopian (aka Nubian lineage). Look at the differences (especially haplogroups L for black african lineage)
DNA is clear on pre-ptolemaic egyptians : almost all their pool comes from Indo-european lineage and Middle-East. The african parts are probably very old, when Sapiens went out of Africa.
Obviously, they didn't scan the full population in every era but it's a strong indication that they were a human lineage who came back to Africa.
They probably mixed a bit with locals during time, they had a lot of exchange with Nubians but the Nubian lineage doesn't have the same history.
I study ancient history and and archeology and I dedicate my energy and my whole life in finding out the true. It's cristal clear she was not black and now Netflix comes around trying to rewrite history and destroying the work of academics just because one "grandma said so". This makes me angry and sad at the same time.
I'm not a historian. Just a fan of the material itself. Some of it is mythology, sure. But we know for a fact, Cleopatra was part-Greek, part-Macedonian.
These Americans are the same people who cannot fathom there are Native White people in Africa, and that there's people in India actually named Michael and Steven and Paul and they usually have "Spanish/Mexican" last names because India was a Portuguese colony besides British, and that there's French fishing villages on the South Eastern coast because that's where the French set up shop as part of trade treaties signed between the vying nations.
archeology is fiction,
archeologists are right now, destroying any evidence that runs counter to the the current narratives (Feminism and Diversity).
What you want to bet that grandma heard Egypt was in Africa and assumed everyone in Africa looks the same?
What if modern day Egyptians made a series about Shaka Zulu and used an Egyptian actor as the king?
Evidently u didn’t do your research she was black live with it 😀😀😀😀😀
You're still criminally undersubbed, my dear leader! Even after appearing on Crits show! Phenomenal breakdown as always!
The Ptolemaic rulers were of Macedonian descent, and practiced inbreeding so likely didn't mix with the native Egyptians. Descriptions of Cleopatra VII, including paintings, depict her as pale skinned with red hair.
By the way, ancient Egyptian rulers were also pale skinned with blond or red hair, similar in appearance to other north Africans of the time, such as the Amazigh (Berbers).
If Netflix wanted to make a docudrama about black rulers of Egypt, they could have used the 25th dynasty, referred to as the Kingdom of Kush.
It's a disservice to the history of Africa to depict north Africans and sub-Saharan Africans as the same, and insulting to blacks everywhere to race swap them in for a white person.
Hollywood is essentially saying blacks aren't good enough to have their own historical stories told.
Thank you! This really bothers me; disrespectful to Egyptian history and those of us who love history. Them pretending that this is truth is downright insulting to our intelligence. I don’t know why she doesn’t highlight some black African queens (such as those from Kush, now Nubia); I’d love to learn about them instead of seeing Cleopatra repurposed for an agenda.
The problem is, we have hardly any written sources on classical black queens
You dont know why? Its because these people want to appropriate and/or destroy white culture.
Because it takes far more work to, say, hire some African or Central or South American history experts and then hire good writers to craft a meaningful story that is at least somewhat factual. For Black Panther designers were sent to Africa to study textiles and design. A comic book movie worked harder to get it right.
@@markmorris7123 they have the Nubia queen Amanirenas that lived the same period as Cleopatra that is quite badass but it's not sellable as Cleopatra it seems.
so ancient AFRICANS WERE WHITE PEOPLE?
I suggest Jada add Marie Antoinette to the list of powerful women of history she should study. She teaches some important leasons about the dangers of letting wealth and power divorce you from reality.
I think that would be way over Jada’s head.
I’ll see my way out…….
knowing her track record she would make Marie a black women
@@SarcasticAriel They actually already did that LMAO
@@S.B__ can't say I am surprised
@@KitsuneAdorable Smoooooth!
The worst thing is that new generations won't read a book as they "learn" from Netflix.
🤣🤣🤣 You are hilarious. And right. And very UK. It freaking rocks to see someone like that. Keep loving the truth and your country. 👍
"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."--George Orwell, 1984.
Imagine making a documentary about Shaka Zulu.... and having Tom hanks play the leading role.
😅😅😅😅
I'd watch that.
🤣🤣🤣
I can image Hollywood doing that
Tom Hanks is far too dark. It should be Jim Gaffigan.
I dare Hollywood to make a movie where they make the Chinese Emperors black 😂
One of my favorite things I've ever heard you say, and I'm paraphrasing the hell out of it because like the Critical Drinker, I love my late night whiskey, is that 'it's NOT just about race swapping, it's about if they're willing to bend that, you know that they're going to bend all sorts of other things to where the story isn't even going to be the same story anymore. It's not about the story, it's about what THEY want the story to be.'.
Now they're doing it to actual "historical documentaries"...
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"It's possible she was an Egyptian". Yeah, just like its also possible she was a descendant of, by her time, a very long line of Greek pharaohs who took over Egypt after the conquests of Alexander. Oh wait, that's not how that works because that's quite literally who she was....
Edit: I feel it necessary to say that I DON'T CARE that a black actress was cast as Cleopatra. That's not my issue. My issue is that this waffling nonsense of "maybe she was, maybe she wasn't," is completely ignorant of history.
Weren't they colonizers?
Considering the way she looked in sculptures etc... It's likely that the rumor about her mother is true, that her mom was Egyptian. The rumor coupled with the fact she was the first in her line to speak Egyptian and have more of a connection to Egyptians just increases the odds.
@Ankit Kumar Yep! Most definitely, won't deny that for a second.
She’s a narcissist and I really can’t help but feel that she hates the fact she is black… like doing and saying anything you can to make ppl accept you is more like you don’t accept yourself so let’s convince everyone else 🤔… she is vile and has destroyed Will.
She is a narcissist. This was really about her comparing herself and being Cleopatra.
exactly!
Funfact:
Queen Cleopatra was the leader of 300 Spartans
When someone say "my truth", I ignore them from that point on. Truth is a universal truth it doesn't come from a single persons perspective on the world or universe.
Even as an American, I love what you said, "England has an amazing history. It's understandable how many people want it as their own." (or words to that effect).
By history you mean enslavement, genocide, misogyny, oppression
Colonizers🤔🤔
@@beatsbydizzy8932 Slave
As a French, I don't agree with that!
@@geekdaddy5351 😂 love the french too
As an African, there are so many women in history who were actually black whose stories have not actually been told but were way more interesting. Why, just why? Seriously, so so many off the top of my mind. And so many stories. Why twist history when there are true powerful positive stories out there.
Spot on. I know it's not popular to say it but Americans can be really arrogant in their ignorance/lack of interest in cultures other than their own. Cleopatra is about as exotic as it gets. Then they're only interested if they can liken it to themselves somehow (i.e.'Cleo's black' and Woman King yet got both wrong).They attacked the English for complaining of the dumpster fire Rings of Power, claiming we attacked their 'diversity' choices when we know darn well they used their own ethnic makeup & percentages not the UK's to base it on. When they did insult Irish & English culture/people, it was 'inadvertent' (but sacked the expert).
It's hate, it's all motivated by hate and racism. IMO Jada wants to sell the idea to the world that the important historical figures were black. I am white but don't believe that every significant figure in the past was white, I admire significant people, I don't see their skin colour, I certainly don't care about their skin colour or cultural background, I admire them as people that achieved great things. Perhaps Jada should stop being racist and stop seeing colour/race everywhere. PW'ed Will could and should have done much better.
Cleopatra isn't even a story of a strong female character that they seem to think she is.
She was married to her brother, wasn't doing great in a civil war against him until Caesar shows up and becomes enamored with her, after his death she latches onto the next Roman general to show up then kills herself when he loses his civil war. Her whole life was defined by men and her relationships with them and her most famous moment was offering herself to Caesar. Egypt itself was Rome's vassal rather than an independent state. Not exactly the striking powerful feminist role model they want.
Unfortunately, culturally these people are European. Which isn’t bad because lots of places around the world adopted many parts of European culture.
I think it’s about having a mythology to tie you into it. Slavery and the transatlantic slave trade is not a good story.
Egypt and Greece are considered foundations of western culture so being able to claim kinship is valuable to them.
I imagine being Africa there’s no problem with the culture mythology linking people.
And honestly, America has a binding mythology that cares not for race or culture of origin. However, people still like to have been part of a group that was part of it.
You know why, there is an agenda that they need to push.
I believe there's currently an adaptation of Richard III in theatres, with Danai Gurera (Michonne in the Walking Dead) playing Richard himself. This is no joke! I like Danai, but my god this is ridiculous!
Can wait for Netflix to do one on ancient Irish history and cast Wesley Snipes as Cú Chulainn.
Yeah ... The story of a woman who murdered all of her siblings, was treated as an actual God by her people and committed suicide so She wouldn't be dragged through the streets of Rome as a prized trophy reeeeally resonates with me 😂
Even more, she was probably inbred.
Not the kind of woman to bring home to meet Mom
Not to mention she catered to a rising Empire (Rome) to get onto said throne, and had children with powerful Romans who had all the resources in the world to make her a puppet to Rome if either of them survived (and Egypt was on the precipice of that anyway). There’s negotiating to remain sovereign and then there’s catering. Cleopatra walked a damn fine line with that
@@sjr100 Julius Caesar thought otherwise. I bet he was lost the moment he saw her.
My thoughts exactly… how the hell is her story, of all historical stories, relatable to every woman?? It’s not relatable to most women who have ever lived!
I mean, yeah, I remember that one time when I was a queen married to my little brother, ruling a foreign nation that no one in my family even previously spoke the language of, that was fun. I maybe went a little overboard when I killed off most of my family, but I just kept reminding myself that every woman has gone through this, time to grow up and quit complaining, self! I don’t know what got into me when I decided to seduce the ruler of the most powerful empire on the planet at the time via introduction by carpet, but like hashtagjustgirlthings, am I right? Ah, memories. We really need to bring back that death by asp trend. Everybody loved that.
I don't think anybody realizes the legal implications. The Egyptian government owns a ton of trade marks and business interests in the history of Egypt. They could sue the heck out of Netflix for damages.
I hope they do
@@Level-up-your-life Just found out they did! Lol. Supposedly already to be banned in Egypt.
@@benl6328 for real? Nice of them to react fast.
I hope it's the end of the "Cuties" people
@@benl6328 That's excellent. Needs to be more repercussions for this kind of sh*t.
Esto ha llegado muy lejos.. se veía venir.. hace años, mas de 20 años que este tema se estaba cocinando. Lo sorprendente es que haya quien lo secunde.
The archeological institute in Egypt (don't know what its called sry) is extremely protective about their history, understandably. So I hope a show like this where they're stating bs as facts get sued into orbit.
they are tired of being litterlay colonized by western fads. Poor egyptians, seriously , when is this going to stop?
Oh it's happening.
I’m a black African man, I know Cleopatra was descended from Macedonia general Ptolemy, a Greek. “Native” Africans are not all black; we have some dark, brown, reddish, caramel, white colored people. That’s the richness of our continent.
Yeah man.. North African people are Mediterranean/phoenic/semitic people/berber people. As for black african kingdoms, why does Netflix doesn't tell us the story of Mali Empire? Black Africa got a real interesting history to tell, but we need someone to unveil it, not just change facts.. 😐
@@smite4ever537 there’s hundreds of interesting and less well known histories of great empires and kingdoms from Mali to Kongo, the Zulu and great Zimbabwe, Abyssinia to Kush. But these so called film-makers are too lazy; they’d rather take well researched and known stories and change facts.
Africa is huge. When I found out you could fit Russia in the African continent my mind was blown.
@@smite4ever537 You do understand that the Berbers were Black, and that Northern Africa was full of Black African kingdoms, you do understand that Mediterranean people are not from there, but are descendants of invaders? There’s pictures from thousands of years ago depicting just that? The only white skinned people that are from and indigenous to Africa are Albino Nubian people. The fact that this is being debated is crazy, what Europeans people have done to history is the greatest crime this world has ever seen.
@@elijahhayes8615 YES, we committed the sin of recording history, and not only the "whites" but all the Mediterranean and Asian tribes. I guess it's easier to believe an Afrocentric fantasy than dig into the documents and archaeological evidence.
I'm Egyptian, A COPTIC CHRISTIAN EGYPTIAN, I shout that out loud because we are the most pure blooded Egyptians out there and that's not only my opinion that's what scientists and historians also agreed on , and i tell you that every word that Bassem Youssef said is right and i totally agree with him, yes Egypt had lots of mixed cultures throughout its history like Greek, Romans and arabs but the Egyptian blood didn't mix and change that much and that's because for centuries we Egyptians had a golden tradition rule to marry our cousins, and that tradition is still present until now especially in Upper Egypt(From Assiut to Aswan), although that tradition seems silly and bad from a scientific biological point of view, but that doesn't matter, silly or not we kept that tradition of marrying our cousins for centuries and that helped us to preserve our pure Egyptian blood not mixed as long as we could, and the result is what you see now and that is modern Egyptians looks typical to their Ancient Egyptian ancestors, just look at my skin color and Bassem Youssef's skin color we are almost the same although he is a Muslim who was born and lived in Cairo and I am a Coptic Christian who was born and lived in Luxor and there is almost 1000 km distance between us, doesn't that tell you a thing or two about who Ancient Egyptians were and what they looked like? with all respect for all the black people and all the other ethnicities out there, but we egyptians are special very special, we are not Black nor White nor Greek nor Romans nor Yellow Asians nor Caucasians nor Europians nor Northern Africans nor Arabs . WE ARE EGYPTIANS, WE ARE VERY UNIQUE!
Most of us in America with intelligence know that the DNA of the Khemet mummies is a 86% identical match to modern Egyptians.
@@blackhawk7r221 You don't know how much I'm happy with your comment, Thank you very much for that Brother! Spread the word among Afrocentrics cause their lies are the biggest danger to all African Americans.
Jada tried to pull the British maneuver when it comes to Egyptian history
Someone should tell Netflix it's called DOCUMENTARY for a reason.
Documentaries are not notible for being full of facts. They are propaganda pieces with an agenda often covering up discourse or points that go against their line of thinking. This is also know as a lie when you only present a portion of the truth.
I'm sure someone tried and they got fired for saying something against it
they should also tell the history channel
@@k0lpA bruh they make pyramids fly who's gonna believe them 😂
@@itsankit1507 sadly, a lot of people believe this crap
My nanny told me a bedtime story. Now it is canonical fact!
As a half ethnic Greek, who knows the history and ethnicity of Cleopatra, who was ethnic Macedonian descended from northern Greeks, I am shocked by the cultural appropriation of Cleopatra as an ethnic black African.
Changing the race of a fictional character is one thing. Changing the race of a historical figure is super sad and misleading. Attempting to rewrite historical facts is, in fact, attempting to erase history.
I'm reflecting back to the oral defense of dissertation before three experienced PhDs in my field. I am picturing their faces as I preface my responses to their questions with "possibly" and "I imagine." Spoiler alert: it's not a happy ending. I witnessed a full bloodletting of a colleague who missed the point on a book in colloquium. Three professors spent thirty minutes tag teaming the poor, unfortunate soul, explaining, chapter and verse, how he missed the point because he was unprepared. History is not complicated, ladies and gentlemen. You either have the data to prove your point or you keep silent. Rampant speculation is not history. It's narcissism masquerading as something substantive and would be laughed out of any academic setting worth its salt.
I feel for your poor colleague - was he truly unprepared or were they just blood hungry?
@Vladimir's Poutine
I believe that someone *above* the gatekeepers desired quantity over quality, and therefore weakened or removed them.
I'm a brown guy from and in Asia. And I IMAGINE Celopatra to be PROBABLY Michelle Pfieffer. Sue me.
Head-canon doesn't even begin to describe this delusion and revisionist history.
@@Zknwlf It was a confluence of mitigating factors. First and foremost, he simply screwed the pooch, misreading the major premise of the book. Second, the author of the book had been the doctoral supervisor of one of the professors. It got a little personal for him. Third, he refused to give up the ghost and admit his mistake. I tried to throw him a life preserver, but he refused and threw it back in my face. At that point, the rest of us backed off and watched the carnage. There were two young women auditing the class with interest in doing PhD work in the field. Their faces were ashen. When the class came to a merciful conclusion, one of the professors turned to them and said, "Don't be afraid. We would never do that to you." I don't they believed him.
The real kicker was that I was the next session's presenter. Fearing a similar fate, I read like 300 pages of auxiliary research to supplement the book. After my initial overview of the chapter, I asked what my supervisor later called good questions only to have my colleagues do their imitation of the damn sphinx. We're talking crickets! They hung me out to dry. It was basically a fifty-minute monologue. I was more than a little salty about it riding down the elevator after class.
@misstry Speaking truth!
They stole our women with Joan of Arc, Anne Boleyn, Margret of Anjou, Queen Charlotte, etc, & we didn't stop them. I'm glad Egypt is standing up to them.
3:01 I instantly thought of Bobby Boucher and his "Mama" from Waterboy.
Young Bobby Boucher : [flashback to Bobby's childhood] Mama, when did Ben Franklin invent electricity?
Mama Boucher : That's nonsense, I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil!
Egyptian government lawyers should be praised in the media for staying true to their culture, history and for respecting their past.... unlike british government when netflix made anne boleyn black
I agree that Egyptians should be annoyed but suing for "forgery" is just silly. I'm an American and during the Nasser years it was pretty much official government policy to tell blatant lies about the US. And not relatively harmless things like this either. The US (and Britain) *didn't* take part in the Six Day War despite what the _Egyptian president_ said. Imagine if after the attack on Pearl Harbor the US president had come out and said Egypt was secretly working with Japan.
How is this a government issue? Are you a fascist?
Considering the way she looked in sculptures etc... It's likely that the rumor about her mother is true, that her mom was Egyptian. The rumor coupled with the fact she was the first in her line to speak Egyptian and have more of a connection to Egyptians just increases the odds.
@@vertigo2894 but egyptians were not black. So...don't you think it should be time to stop colonizing a appropriating this people's history?
@@backintimealwyn5736 Now cultural appropriation is a bad thing? I thought it wasn't a big deal. It's only a big deal when black people do it?
So incredibly possessed by an ideology that they manage to get sued by a country because of their reality warping shenanigans. If they weren't evil I would almost pity them.
The lady playing Cleopatra is biracial, biracial people have European ancestry.
@@amenajackson8133 Cleopatra was not bi-racial, she was 100% Macedonian/Greek. 100% European and not Egyptian and even less black. These Evil people are trying to change history.
@@amenajackson8133 No, they have ancestry from two different regions. Could be Asian ancestry as well, or even native American ancestry. It doesn't have to be European and African. Heck, I knew someone who was proudly bi-racial. Half Indian and half Tongan.
I imagine that harriet tubman was a Ford F-150 quad can pickup truck, specifically a white one with a towing rig and ladder/tool rack.
Plot twist: everyone who made this “documentary” are from an alternate dimension where cleopatra was black, and that’s why they’re so adamant on this…
Or they're being paid off, or more likely blackmailed to agree with her.
What fascinates me is that there are still people in Hollywood catering to this woman's whims.
When Cleopatra charged up Cemetery Ridge to force George Washington to park the Enterprise "D" downwind of Jabba the Hutt just as Mount Doom erupted, it was the most pivotal moment in the history of ancient Egypt. It led directly to Cleopatra's conquest of the Australian Open, without which none of us would be here today.
I can only hope and pray in a non-denominational manner that Netflix does justice to these amazing and truly inspirational female empowerment scenes.
You deserve way more likes :)
You win the internets today.
I think MY TRUTH is more accurate.😂
The saucer separation was epic, especially when Baby Yoda guided it in with his force powers.
I love you. Big HUG.