I'm sorry, but anyone who possesses half a brain and at least a partial grasp of Egyptian history knows that not only were the Ptolemys Macedonian by descent. They slowly adopted Egyptian culture and religion more and more as both a political and sociological tool over the Egyptian people. The entire family was inbred over and over again so many times that it's a wonder they ever produced someone with the genius of Cleopatra VII. Whether she had black blood in her or not is moot at this point. But she was ethnically too Greek to have possessed a more North African, Moorish, or Nubian visage. She also possessed the classic Mediterranean knows with the bone in it at the bridge, she had blue eyes, and by some accounts reddish hair. But, having said this, and being fans of at least three of the previous actresses who played the character---Claudette Colbert, Vivian Leigh, and Elizabeth Taylor---they were all also woefully miscast. Too Caucasian, not ethnic enough. Bottom line, I will accept Cleopatra as black, provided that I am given enough scientific evidence to believe it. I'm not close minded or racist. But all the evidence we have suggests I'm more Mediterranean and less African visage.
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Stephan michael
3 years ago
Read a bit of history , This is dissgrace.
Whats next a film about Mandela starring Jean claude van damme
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Abdelrahman mohamed kamel
3 years ago
Cleopatra is macedonian and egyptians r not black they r mixed race we have all colors
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Khalid
3 years ago
It has nothing to do with the truth!
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Chris Constantinou
3 years ago
Cancelled my netflix subsciption !!! I'm tired of our heritage being vandalised.
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Kate b
3 years ago
Keep Egyptian history authentic.
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Anonymous
3 years ago
If you falsify history - You become liars.
I understand the African community is looking for empowerment, but you can not steal someone other culture's Queen. Cleopatra was an Egyptian Queen of Greek descent - not African.
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Tennille Enoch
3 years ago
No more white washing history
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Ziad Awwad
3 years ago
Cleopatra was greek, greek people weren't black at all LOL
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Tracie-Lee
3 years ago
Cleopatra was not black !!
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Myron Murley
3 years ago
This cultural appropriation & false history
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Peter Wedd
3 years ago
Fiction should be presented as such.
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Wally Anglesea
3 years ago
I don't see it happening, but this sort of nonsense must be stopped. It would not be so bad if there was a counter argument, and a rider shown that the claims made by the "documentary" were completely false
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Amina niazi
3 years ago
Totally lacking historical facts.
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Mohamed
3 years ago
We need to STOP allowing Netflix to falsify the history
Fight back racism
I'm sorry, but anyone who possesses half a brain and at least a partial grasp of Egyptian history knows that not only were the Ptolemys Macedonian by descent. They slowly adopted Egyptian culture and religion more and more as both a political and sociological tool over the Egyptian people. The entire family was inbred over and over again so many times that it's a wonder they ever produced someone with the genius of Cleopatra VII. Whether she had black blood in her or not is moot at this point. But she was ethnically too Greek to have possessed a more North African, Moorish, or Nubian visage. She also possessed the classic Mediterranean knows with the bone in it at the bridge, she had blue eyes, and by some accounts reddish hair. But, having said this, and being fans of at least three of the previous actresses who played the character---Claudette Colbert, Vivian Leigh, and Elizabeth Taylor---they were all also woefully miscast. Too Caucasian, not ethnic enough. Bottom line, I will accept Cleopatra as black, provided that I am given enough scientific evidence to believe it. I'm not close minded or racist. But all the evidence we have suggests I'm more Mediterranean and less African visage.
Read a bit of history , This is dissgrace. Whats next a film about Mandela starring Jean claude van damme
Cleopatra is macedonian and egyptians r not black they r mixed race we have all colors
It has nothing to do with the truth!
Cancelled my netflix subsciption !!! I'm tired of our heritage being vandalised.
Keep Egyptian history authentic.
If you falsify history - You become liars. I understand the African community is looking for empowerment, but you can not steal someone other culture's Queen. Cleopatra was an Egyptian Queen of Greek descent - not African.
No more white washing history
Cleopatra was greek, greek people weren't black at all LOL
Cleopatra was not black !!
This cultural appropriation & false history
Fiction should be presented as such.
I don't see it happening, but this sort of nonsense must be stopped. It would not be so bad if there was a counter argument, and a rider shown that the claims made by the "documentary" were completely false
Totally lacking historical facts.
We need to STOP allowing Netflix to falsify the history
Blackwashing history is deception
CLEOPATRA WAS NOT BLACK, CANCEL THIS JOKE
The rewriting of history has Orwellian overtones.
Stop the heritage stealing.