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Previously: Netflix Doing Docuseries Portraying Cleopatra as Black
The Egyptians are able to complain about so-called “coonwashing” in art and get a fair hearing.
Meanwhile, if you complained about the play “Hamilton” – or for that matter, any of these Netflix or BBC shows that make white characters black – you would definitely be banned from Facebook, lose your job, and probably get a divorce. Also, the CPS might just kidnap your kids.
Egypt has accused Netflix of misrepresenting history by casting a Black woman to play Cleopatra, its most famous historical figure, in a new series.
“Queen Cleopatra,” which is released May 10, features Adele James in the lead role, a casting decision that the streaming giant says is “a nod to the centuries-long conversation about the ruler’s race” but which officials in Cairo have dismissed as “blatant historical fallacy.”
The government statement issued Thursday marked an escalation in a feud that has sparked demands for the show’s cancellation, amid a broader debate over representation in popular culture.
The eight-episode docudrama is executive produced by Jada Pinkett-Smith.
This bitch producing shows? How she producing shows when she ain’t got no hair?
If some bald ass bitch showed up at my studio like “lemme do that producing,” I’d be like “bitch, how you gonna produce when you ain’t got no hair???”
I guess Netflix executives were scared of getting slapped by her husband, even though he slaps like a bitch-ass nigga.
But Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities argued that the documentary nature of the feature “requires those in charge of its production to investigate accuracy and rely on historical and scientific facts.”
Coins and statues from the time show a light-skinned woman, in keeping with Cleopatra’s Macedonian Greek ancestry, it argued.
Yeah, all the leadership of Egypt was white, pretty much the whole time.
The empire probably collapsed due to race-mixing with negro slaves, which caused it to cease being able to properly function.
Which is sort of ironic in context.
Dr. Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in the statement that Cleopatra’s appearance in the show was a “falsification of Egyptian history and a blatant historical fallacy.”
He added that his complaint was “far from any ethnic racism, stressing full respect for African civilizations and for our brothers in the African continent that brings us all together.”
One of Egypt’s most famous archaeologists and twice-serving antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, was adamant: Cleopatra was not Black.
“If we see statues and forms of her father and brother, we will not find any evidence supporting this claim that she was black,” he said in a statement.
Hawass added that Egypt at the time of Cleopatra’s reign ruled over the Kingdom of the Kush, also known as Nubia, in what is now Sudan and southern Egypt, with its distinctive Black African culture. “But they have no connection with the Pharaonic civilization,” he said.
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Egyptian lawmaker Saboura al-Sayyed this week repeated an earlier call for Netflix to be banned across the country.
It probably will end up being banned in Egypt, which is pretty based.
To be clear (some of the news reports are not totally clear), they are not saying she was similar to a modern Egyptian (Arab), they are explicitly saying she was Greek (white).
They released this depiction of her:
It’s very different from the one Jada released, which, let me remind you, was this:
