OMG!! Yes I read that shit.. I could not believe what I was seeing in black&white..Even though he was joking about Meryl Streep, but it was definitely true about Julia Robert’s.Absolutely Ridiculous!!
It is always going to be a controversial issue on this subject.. Never ending,because people both black and white, believe what they truly believe what the truth is.. No changing of the mind-sets.. Period the end..
Lol, if you watch him much, I don't think any jokes on this special are new, it's all old material, doesn't matter that much, all his material was funny. I do wish he came up with new bits rather than repeating the same bits for 40 years.
He would give Zoe Saldana a pass because he would say Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic have just as much african dna as the rest of the Americas. He said it himself.
eazydee415 Oh lord only part African? I can't with white people. All the African Americans I know are part African so what the fuck are they saying? She's as black as us period.
acial profiling and manipulation have been around for a very long time. It has become an issue in contemporary politics, and over 2500 years ago the Greek historian Herodotos wrote that ethnicity was regularly turned to political ends. Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt and a woman of great ability, is often a victim of racial profiling, as today people can be more interested in her racial background than her many accomplishments. Such concerns have recently come to the forefront with the announcement that in at least one of the several Cleopatra movies currently planned, a white (instead of black) actress would play the role of the queen. It is hard to imagine that race would be more important than acting ability, but clearly others disagree. It has been suggested - although generally not by credible scholarly sources - that Cleopatra was racially black African. To be blunt, there is absolutely no evidence for this, yet it is one of those issues that seems to take on a life of its own despite all indication to the contrary. What follows lays out the evidence for Cleopatra’s racial ancestry, but one must not forget that this is of little importance in assessing the legacy of the queen in world history. Let us consider exactly the evidence for Cleopatra’s racial background. It’s a little complicated, so do follow closely! She was born in early 69 BC as the descendant of a line of Egyptian kings in a dynasty that went back 250 years. Her ancestor Ptolemy I, a companion of Alexander the Great, founded the dynasty in the late fourth century BC. Ptolemy was Macedonian Greek in origin (he grew up at the royal court of Alexander’s father in Macedonia, the northern part of the Greek peninsula), and established himself as king of Egypt in the convulsive years after Alexander’s death. The descent passed through six successor Ptolemies until it reached Cleopatra’s father. So Cleopatra was no more than eight generations away from being pure Macedonian Greek. Sarah Bernhardt Image Credit: ‘Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923) in the role of Cleopatra’, by Georges Jules Victor Clairin (1843 - 1919), Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. But what about the mothers? Women are always difficult to find, even in royal dynasties, and it is here that questions of her racial background have been raised. For the first six generations the wives of the ruling Ptolemies also came from the same Macedonian background as their husbands. So until the time of Cleopatra’s great-grandfather, the ethnic makeup of the dynasty was still pure Macedonian Greek. In fact two of her ancestors married their sisters, thus reinforcing the Macedonian ethnicity. It is with Cleopatra’s grandfather that uncertainties develop. Although he had two wives of traditional Macedonian background, he seems to have had at least one concubine of uncertain origin, who may have been Cleopatra’s grandmother. But this is by no means clear, and some sources indicate she was her husband’s sister, and thus pure Macedonian. Assuming, however, that Cleopatra’s grandmother was not from the traditional Macedonian Greek stem, the question arises as to just what she was. Sources suggest that if she was not Macedonian, she was probably Egyptian. So by the time of Cleopatra’s grandparents, there may have been an Egyptian element in the racial stem. Cleopatra’s father also had several wives. One was his sister, but again there is evidence that some of his five children had another mother. Yet the geographer Strabo (one of the few contemporary sources for the life of Cleopatra) wrote that all the wives of her father were women of significant status, which rules out any slaves or concubines, and makes it possible that Cleopatra’s mother was of the traditional Macedonian Greek stock. But this may not have been the case, so one may need to look elsewhere for the ethnic background of Cleopatra’s mother. Yet there is only one other ethnic group that produced women of status in contemporary Egypt: the Egyptian religious elite, which in fact had a long history of intermarriage with the Ptolemaic dynasty. So Cleopatra’s mother may have been Egyptian, but she probably also had some Macedonian background. There are three other matters worthy of consideration. One is that Cleopatra was the only ruler of her dynasty who knew, in addition to her native Greek, the Egyptian language. This suggests close association with an Egyptian speaker, perhaps her mother. Secondly, Cleopatra’s daughter, who became queen of Mauretania (and was mixed ethnically herself, as her father was Roman), honored the Egyptian religious elite at her far-off capital of Mauretanian Caesarea (in modern Algeria). This makes sense if they were part of her ancestral family. And third - especially relevant in demolishing any suggestion that Cleopatra had black African blood - the representations of her in Greek and Roman art and coins do not show anything other than traditional Mediterranean ethnicity, although artists were perfectly capable of showing other ethnic groups. To sum up: it is quite possible that Cleopatra was pure Macedonian Greek. But it is probable that she had some Egyptian blood, although the amount is uncertain. Certainly it was no more than half, and probably less. The best evidence is that she was three-quarters Macedonian Greek and one-quarter Egyptian. There is no room for anything else, certainly not for any black African blood. Yet all this argumentation is rather silly. What is important about Cleopatra is that she became one of the most powerful rulers of her era. She was a skilled linguist, a naval commander, an expert administrator, a religious leader who was seen by some as a messianic figure, and a worthy opponent of the Romans. She was worshipped in Egypt for at over 400 years after her death. Race seems irrelevant in such a situation, and it goes without saying that people should be judged by their abilities, not their race. But sadly, even in twenty-first century America, this is far from the case. It is unlikely that Cleopatra cared about her racial makeup, but people over 2000 years later still obsess about it, thus trivializing her accomplishments.
@@trillrifaxegrindor4411 Race shouldn't matter yet if someone was important they are always depicted as being white. People want the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth. Picture Will Smith playing julius caesar. Now do you understand where we are coming from?
Most Egyptians at the time weren't white but Cleopatra wasn't even ethnically Egyptian. She was from the Ptolemaic dynasty which descended from Ptolemy Soter, a friend of Alexander the Great and one of his general. He was Macedonian Greek. In fact, Cleopatra was the first of her lineage to embrace her Egyptian heritage and speak the language. Others before her were a bunch of foreigners who took the throne from their foreign parents. Cleopatra wasn't black at all, come on. And of course, it wasn't a lie. She married her brother who was literally named Ptolemy...after the Greek general.
Cleopatra was fucking Greek, descendant of the Ptolemies who were rulling over Egypt after Alexander conquered it. She was as Egyptian as George Washington was an Apache
Ancient egypt was definitely a north east black african civilization before assyrian, cannaanite and greek invasion. But cleopatra was mixed, by that time ancient egypt was multicultural, many diff ethnicities but this was wayy after all the pyramids, sphinx and other architecture and civilization was already built by black africans
This man was awesome and he always spoke the truth (many of them, uncomfortable truths). I only wish that he had been as honest and truthful about his sexuality as he was about race and racism.
@@cantstopwontstop7317 The annoying thing is that I'm African from the Edo tribe of Bini and ohh do we know alot about how African heritage constantly gets stolen, destroyed or bluntly denied. In the end the truth will surface.
For the ppl who has watched this entire stand-up show,did you guys realize the white couple who was caught on camera walking out once he started talking about race? As if they didn't know what kind of night they were in for when coming to see Paul's stand-up.......truth,it'll hurt you but it will also heal you
Cleopatra was descended from the Macedonians/Greeks, more specifically from the Ptolemaic (Ptolemy was Alexander's general who became pharaoh of Egypt after the invasion) rulers which invaded Egypt under Alexander the Great, who himself was son of Philip of Macedon. They were European. At the present time, there are still Greek descendants in Egypt, and yes, they are white.
*Actually in a 2019 Washington Post article writer Gregory Allen Howard said that a white Hollywood exec suggested in the 1990s that Julia Roberts should play Harriet Tubman.*
IF THIS WAS NOT THE FUNNIEST MAN THAT EVER WALKED THE PLANET!!!! WE ALL KNOW, CHAPPELLE TOO, THIS MAN RIGHT HERE IS THE REAL GOAT OF COMEDY. FUNNIER THAN RICHARD TO ME.
Ok. No cleopatra was mostly Greek. Gross looking too. You know who’s a black female? Nut. (Noot). The face of the Devine Mother Nature on the sphinx. Much more important. Many of the engineers who built the pyramids. Black. Paul Mooney one of the funniest men ever. Way more important than cleopatra. 😂. This man had sooooo much talent. Miss you Paul.
Um, actually, Cleopatra was white. She was Macadonian, pure blooded and descended from Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great’s generals who was granted Egypt after Alexander’s death. People commonly think she was Egyptian, but her line wasn’t. Not a bit. They were very racist, and the native Egyptians didn’t hold a single position of power in Hellenistic Egypt, other than within the priesthood and only at their Macedonian Pharaoh’s command. Cleopatra was as white as Anthony. Sorry if that’s off topic, just needed to point that one out.
