Cleopatra Bombs So Actress Calls Egypt Racist 

Assassins Creed had a more accurate Cleopatra

This is an ACTUAL case of cultural appropriation. Re-writing Greek and Egyptian history for the sake of diversity is ridiculous

I just love how they're justifying it with "Egypt is a part of Africa". That's like making a movie about Ghandi, but casting him as a Japanese man and defending it with "India is part of Asia"

Did she just say that racism is a "very modern ideology". WTF?

"I don't care what they tell you in school, XXX is black." is such a powerful scientific statement for a documentary film.

Egyptian here. We defend our history, they call us racists! How preposterous ! We are very proud of our history, we defend it as if it’s a living member !

You need a special level of entitlement to appropriate an entire culture for your own political agenda and then call them racist when they call you out on B.S

“You all mad at this? Then why don’t I see you mad at the mummy movies” that was fiction

Egyptians:"Wait a minute! Cleopatra wasn't like that! The actress in the Cleopatra documentary:"You're racist!" Cleopatra: gaslighting edition.

The audacity of the production members to accuse ACTUAL EGYPTIANS of being racists after making this crap.

Its a common psychotic condition these days for groups of people to aggressively elbow and crowbar their way into other peoples spaces while completely viewing themselves as the victim. Its truly absurd and evil.

Ok…so I am an American living in Egypt since 2017…this “fake”umentary almost made us get Netflix banned in the whole country!!!!

British explorers stole many Egyptian artifacts, and now a British woman stole Cleopatra's identity and called Egyptians racist 💀

I like how she goes "Egypt is racist" and then is racist to Egyptians by generalizing them and saying they don't understand modern racism.

I'm Italian, I attended liceo classico while I was in high school, and the amount of bullsh*t I had to listen about Greek and Roman culture and history according to this miniseries is beyond absurdity.

The thing is, if this is not considered a "documentary", ppl would have just be like "nay another lousy movie" and look past it warning ppl to not believe it thats all. Maybe just take the aesthatic in this and admire colors thats all. But! the fact that they state this is a documentary and has the audacity to not follow through the real history nor have any input about it from the egypt country and is still being disrespectful to them just doubly disgusting of them.

I give her props for not only being a british woman and doing a documentary without consulting any Egyptian historian, but also have the balls to actually call an ENTIRE COUNTRY racist about their own history. That takes a whole universe of delusion right there.

Netflix: “Cleopatra was Black…”. Egypt: “No she wasn’t…”. Netflix: “Why do you care about race so much Egypt?”.

The way she called racism a modern ideology just showcases how much she victimizes herself

“All men care about is power” Who poisoned who’s brother??👀

I am Greek and we shares thousands of years with Egypt. This cannot be stolen or changed. We stand with our own history as well as Egyptian history. 🇬🇷 🇪🇬

She’s using the famous argument “black people cant be racist”. Jada Smith also said “despite what history teaches us, Cleopatra was black”.

As an American and lover of history, especially Classical history, we don't claim this "documentary." Most of us aren't as insanely retarded as the world thinks we are.

It's not even about skin colour, can anyone picture Caesar or Anthony fall head over heels for this version of Cleopatra? Coins minted during Cleopatra's reign depict her with a prominent nose, a strong chin, and deep-set eyes. There you go ...

I remember my grandmother telling me "I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was a Chinese male."

What the actress needs to understand is that no one is affended by HER skin colour. They're affected by Cleopatra's depiction as a black woman. This is just so absurd like girl you're not that important lol

They didn’t add any Egyptian experts because the Egyptians experts know cleopatra wasn’t black

This reminds me of the saying: Don't argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

As an Egyptian from Alexandria, we are in disbelief!! All we have left as Alexandrians is the history of our city and we are watching it being commandeered by the Afro-centrist movement there are. There are 50 African counties and countless old empires with their own unique history!! Leave ours alone !

Her saying “Egypt is racist” while being racist herself by stealing an Egyptions identity, just shows how black people can get away racism themselves by simply pulling the black card. Absolutely disgusting

I read the title, first of all; huh?? Racist??? As an actual Egyptian who quite literally has lived in Egypt and has their grandmother's house next to the pyramids, I say that we are *NOT* being racist, we are protecting our history. This just makes me angry to my core. I don't wanna say something that I might regret but this lady is just not in the right.

As a Greek person, I find it appalling that they seem to believe that completely erasing the fact that Cleopatra was Greek is inclusive. No nationality should have priority when it comes to inclusivity. Greek people, Egyptian people and all of the other nationalities should all ne shown in media, none of them should be erased because you can make money off of having black people or white people in your film.

She has the audacity to call the egyptians for defending their history but yet she's appropriating egyptian history. What a hypocrisy!

They do realize Cleopatra was an actual person, right? It's not like trying to make Spider-Man black, this is history not entertainment. I swear Jada would've played the role herself if her ego were just a bit bigger

Imagine if you saw some unknown actress talk smack about the very country you live in and say "Oh everything you learned is false even though there's more scientific and research evidence" and claim you are in the wrong about your own country. I'd be pissed.

"Everything has been whitewashed, it is so wrong. There should be diversity.." - Those who then proceed to: -Blackwash. -Strong Woman wash. -etc.

Ironic; blackwashing actress calling everyone racist. 😆😆😆

I don’t blame the Egyptians for being angry over this. The world is getting tired to this victimology.

Love when people say " If you don't think like me or accept my view you are racist - or antisemitic - or are full of hate". We all have views. Get over it if we don't agree.

This happens a lot for the history of my country too, I’m persian and most Persians are white with brown hair and eyes, but when they show us in TV shows and documentaries they put Indian and brown actors in it instead of persian actors. Even in anime and cartoons they make Persians brown and when we say anything about it they call us racist. One example is the game fate grand order where they have made every Persian character black. after some complaints they only fixed one character which is arash kamangir and in the new update they made his skin white instead of brown but characters like darius III are still black in the game. And a lot of people mistake us for Arabs and when we get sad and say that we’re not Arabs they call us racist towards Arabs

If you are black, you can call anyone racist if they don’t agree with you. It’s the perfect get out card

I can't believe she is accusing the Egyptians who are defending their history, of being racist. This is absolutely ridiculous. The amount of entitlement is sickening. I don't trust any documentaries from Netflix. You can't just change history and expect people not to be mad about it. 🤦‍♀️

Imagine calling an entire country racist and thinking it wouldn't backfire even further.

Netflix doing this just makes it harder for different cultures to have they’re real story is told

Calling Queen Cleopatra a documentary is like calling the Flintstones a documentary.

They blackfaced Cleopatra, and then the actress called the egyptian people fighting back racist. That is the _definition_ of being racist.

How can you shut down any argument without having to be correct? Just call everyone raciest.

As a Brit I'm embarrassed that we're connected with this

What’s low key sad is that the actress seems to believe she got there due to some kind of merit, when in fact she was hired exactly for her skin color. They don’t even hide how purposeful this was. For traction.

Horrible woman playing the black card when she and the producers are in the wrong.

As a black person, I’m absolutely disgusted with this documentary. I’ve heard so many black people tell me this lie and I never believed it especially when there is also literal genetic evidence showing that Cleopatra WASNT BLACK. I’m so sick of the black people who claim that she’s black when that’s simply not the case. We have our own African historical figures who were actually very influential to history but Netflix doesn’t care about them, they just want to be part of the go woke, go broke campaign. Shame on the actress for calling all of Egypt racist when this documentary would inevitably backfire, shame on Netflix for allowing such garbage to be streamed on their already bad platform and shame on the people who actually backed this documentary as well. Stop rewriting history for your woke agenda!

Jada Pinkett Smith Is About As Faithful To History As She Is To Will.

Imagine rewriting their actual history and erasing their cultural identity then calling them racist defending their culture.

1:53 she needs to understand that racism isn’t hating on black people. Racism is thinking less of a certain group of people because of their skin, heritage, ethnicity, nationality etc, which she is so very much doing.

We all got to stick up for each other no matter what our background is! As a history buff, that especially loves this era (I am obsessed with this era of Rome since its them transitioning into an Empire, not to mention Cesare was a military genius), I am angry as well.

"Threat " Lady if someone made a movie about martin Luther king and made him chinese you would riot . The amount of disrespect she has for an entire race /ethnicity of people is disgusting .

“Your history is wrong. This is what really happened.” “What’s your source?” “I’m black.”

The main problem is they claim this a "documentary" while falsely claiming the entire Egyptian history. THAT, is racism

I remember that one show host tried slapping back at the critics of the documentary by belittling how we never had this reaction about the "lies" in mummy movies about mummies rising from their sarcophagus, completely missing the point that those are blatant works of fiction while the documentary is a blatant attempt to erase and rewrite the historical culture of a people that isn't getting a voice in it.

Good to see you carve your own path down the road your father and grandfather walked. Your father was instrumental in shaping my understanding of living in Australia as an immigrant. On Ya Mate 🤘🏽.

“I remember my Grandmother saying to me ... I don’t care what they teach you at school, Cleopatra was black.” Granny off her meds again

As a Black American, I apologize, this whole circus show is ridiculous.

Me over here finding out that Cleopatra was Greek and that Egypt and Greece share history now makes me upset that we didn’t get to learn about that instead. It sounds so interesting! (Also me running to my library to read actual history books about it instead. 🤓)

my grandmother bless her soul used to tell me if I keep scissors open at night something violent will happen, I guess I should have paid more attention to what she said !!

Did she say that racism was a “very modern ideology?” How is it even possible to know so little about the past?

Saying racism is a fairly new ideology instantly undermines anything else that woman says lmao

Netflix is still advertising it

This is literally the movie equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot and blaming someone else for "shooting you".

What’s hilarious is her trying to make all the backlash about her skin tone while refusing to acknowledge that her skin tone is the only reason she got the role 😂

"I remember my Grandmother saying to me..." Yeah, dementia is a horrible thing

I side with the Egyptians for this. I hope Netflix goes broke.

As a Roman descendant, I can say I stand by the Egyptian and Greek people. This is pure woke washing in its full absurdity and should be considered and treated like the garbage that it is. Let us not infuriate our Ancestors with the false beliefs of the modern day weak who for some reason have been given a voice.

The racism card being used over and over again has ruined the word racism. It has no meaning anymore. “I’m black and I failed, and you call out my failures, that means you’re racist!!” It’s gross and it’s such a damn cop out..

I'm an Egyptian, and my father is a tour guide who's spent his whole life studying and giving lectures about Egyptian history; he's really passionate about it, and I grew up listening to him telling me brief parts of our history. When he saw this he was SOOOOO MAD - see, if it was just some kid's cartoon misinterpreting Egyptian history and customs/culture out of ignorance, which I'm sure you CAN find somewhere on the internet, it wouldn't even bother us, hasn't bothered us for years. Not a lot of Egyptians are all that involved in western media drama and politics. But this was just going TOO far. My father said he felt like it was done with bad intentions. He and I were straight up laughing at the incredulity, the audaciousness of that "documentary". I literally live RIGHT NEXT TO THE PYRAMIDS 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And then I hear or read about some bullshit about how I, as an Egyptian, "don't know my own history" and "my country is full of racist people who were originally black people invaded by Arabs and westerners so we're invaders". WOW that made me so mad - I'M NOT OFFENDED BY THE ACTRESS' SKIN COLOUR, MY FATHER IS DARK-SKINNED OKAY I'M OFFENDED BY THE MALICIOUS REWRITING OF A PART OF OUR HISTORY, THENNNN BKAMING US WHEN WE GET OFFENDED and MAN does this BLATANT gaslighting and misrepresentation make my blood boil But thank you for pointing out how atrocious this documentary was

It's not a documentary. It's a propaganda piece, pure and simple.

If you want to immediately shut down any kind of intelligent discussion or critiscm, then just shout "Racism!".

They changed her race, changed her style, changed her whole personality!! Cleopatra was not a “i’ll die for my country”, she became a ruler because of her intelligence, she manipulated people with her beauty, she was very cunning and smart

She labels us as being racist while being completely blind about the fact that they are mocking Egyptian culture and history

Can not believe that that British actress has the audacity to call Egyptians racist just because they would not accept her lies

I wouldn’t even describe it as documentary

They deliberately excluded any Egyptian actors or staff. They essentially made a pseudo "Docu" with British and American actors. And when Egyptians point that out, they label THEM racist. The sheer audacity, these people are pathetic. It`s them that should be "canceled" for trying to blackface history and brainwashing audiences.

the biggest issue i have with this is it being labled as a documentary

This has the same vibes as "if you're from Africa why are you white". Mean girls was ahead of its time

Bro African Americans saying that we aren't the indigenous people of the land and bla bla bla while thinking Africa is one country 🗿

As an egyptian, I can properly say that these people have essentially "blackwashed" our culture, and intentionally falsified my nation's history. I sincerely hope that one day my culture gets the respect it deserves.

As an Italian I can say I would be very perplexed If they make a film about Ancient Rome with a total black cast just to prove a point. We're living in crazy times.

The Egyptians are so wrong. How dare they know their own history. Cleopatra was Greek, not African.

Anybody else remember how in "Vikings: Valhalla" netflix also turned Hakon the black from a black-haired man to a black woman...? In medieval norway...? Smh

As an American, I am so glad people are calling out this BS. I can't stand it anymore it's ridiculous.

Well, they couldn't include actual Egyptian people because they don't look black and that blows up the false narrative they are trying to weave.

In the one scene where he pulls up the rotten tomato score look at her crown, i can’t tell if it’s supposed to be a bird or if they snuck a wu tang logo in

I m waiting for that writer to make queen of england brown and say because her grandma told her...

There were no Egyptian actors, because they don't consider us Egyptians. And her thinking We're threatened by her skin tone is as ridiculous as her documentary.

Even "The Mummy" (Brandon Frasier version) has a BUNCH of Arab and Egyptian-looking people in it, as was the main antagonist. Brandon and family being white was explained and it was a multi-racial cast.

This is getting beyond ridiculous another case of "oh you don't like this thing that I done you must be racist"... she needs prosecuted for racist agitation. Its people with her attitude that make the fight against racism all the more difficult!

You know you've messed up big time when an entire country sues you.

I remember my grandmother telling me "I dont care what they tell you, Cleopatra was in fact a He 111H-6 Bomber with blue wings and without wheels."

I am half Egyptian (with family from Egypt) and I cannot tell you how much this disturbs me. Hollywood consistently pushes the diversity agenda, but I could probably count on one hand the amount of Egyptian representation on Hollywood’s screen nowadays. And on one of the few times that it wants to represent anything Egyptian they have to go and completely erase, rewrite, and then gaslight us!!! I honestly don’t see how this made it pass Netflix, further more, I don’t see how POC are actually going along with this (considering how much they had to fight for representation) AND are actually being racist towards us!!! I am genuinely baffled

I’m glad Netflix is getting sued, it should happen more often. Maybe then they’ll actually learn something, but that is wishful things. Them learning to not be trash, I mean.

I recall seeing the 2016 remake of the movie "Ben Hur," and the crowd of Roman spectators in the Circus Maximus was shown as being about 1/3 blacks. I thought what's going on here?