Queen Cleopatra - The Most Hated Show Of All Time? 

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I think *Drunk History* uses this as a premise too.

Maybe her grandma is 2103 years old and personally knew cleopatra who knows

There's an entire subculture of black Americans who not only think Cleopatra was black but that ancient Egypt was a "black African" civilization. All the depictions showing otherwise are fakes done by white supremacists for some nefarious purpose.

Egyptologist Sally-Ann Ashton who worked as a consultant for Netflix stated, “Cleopatra ruled in Egypt long before the Arab settlement in North Africa,” Ashton said in a statement. “If the maternal side of her family were indigenous women, they would’ve been African, and this should be reflected in contemporary representations of Cleopatra.”

Ha good one 😂

Lmaooo 🤣🤣🤣

She loves gettin in all sorts of “entanglements”

the comments r epic

I wonder how many more times I'll see this comment copied from the original, higher rated one. My guess is thousands lol, people can't help but copy top comments and farm them upvotes. And they always have the same reply somehow, "I didn't see the top rated comment!"....c'mon son lol

It's even funnier when you discover that this claim was made by a random grandma

2 words: CANCEL NETFLIX

My gran gran had some good stories as well.

Dam why did your wife want to watch this trash.

​@@strange-universe Don't forget the actual descriptions of Jesus as a caucasian or the actual descriptions of people like David and Joseph in the Bible as redheads.

Exactly. Plus, if you need to rely on race swapping, you're also saying that you don't think your race can make good characters on their own and need to rely on (insert other race) to make good original characters from them. It's self-racist and hillarious.

They dont wanna talk about african queens, because in true history, african kings and queens would sell their own as slaves. In fact many cultures in the past used to do this, specially in tribal cultures. They didnt wanna make a documentary against that because its not in their political agenda.

The actual funniest part is Netflix lost the lawsuit that Egypt hit them with and they have to remove this abomination and pay Egypt 2 billion dollars…..it’s fucking hilarious actually.😅

Cleopatra was able to accept her African and Greek heritage. To the Egyptians she was Isis, to the Romans she was Venus. You can be more than one thing

@@David-ox7ps What African heritage?

Whose changing it?? Have you seen a photo of Cleopatra which by the way isn't her original name, have you seen her remains?? So how do you what she looks like??

@@taz09216 We know she wasn't black African from contemporary depictions. It's not just that they show her with light skin and hair that a black woman wouldn't have - the strongest evidence is her facial structure which is nothing like those of black Africans.

@@taz09216 You deserve an award for the level of intelligence demonstrated by that comment.

They accuse others of that they do themselves. With literally everything.

The irony is in this situation is the fact she was a European/Macedonian who was literally a colonizer of an African nation. This is how you know the woketards are just stupid. You can cover all the bases of wokism.

Jada's sons friend: Hold my integrity, and hers.

I laughed way to hard at your comment 😂😂😂

I think you mean, "Burp her new boyfriend."

Jada even made governmnets come together with the internet community.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LOVE IT! 👌

Her grandmother: Why the fuck so many people are cursing me after I'm dead?! What did I do? 😂😂😂 Tbh, I feel a little sorry for her grandmother. There's always a clip of that statement in most coverages of this movie.

Historian always rewrite history to fit a narrative. You might be right that they may be bigots.

​@@mighty-roman I don't. She set that "historian" to become a failure. Without that dead hag, this catastrophe wouldn't have been made.

@@junodonatus4906 I mean maybe she just didn't know. It's not impossible to think that at that place and time her grandmother was under the impression that you shouldn't trust public education. Obviously she was dead wrong in the end but I don't interpret it as maliciousness.

​@@junodonatus4906 you should. She probably had no clear idea. But her granddaughter is literally African heritagr historian so she should knew better to be credible

Blacks can't be racist, they can spit on any race, that's what in USA they call tolerance

Just like thinking all Asian must be yellow, nevermind its the largest continent that includes millions of etnics

Of course if they are black they also must look like Lizzo. Damn is she Obeast.

I'm from the philippines and I've been told I'm not asian... what the heck am i then??

@@lawrencelopez9839 exactly, dumb as shit. Especially for the phillipines where alot of people are fairly mixed.

😆 My thought exactly, Michael

I'm sure there is someone else she can steal.

She could have chosen any of these. Kendakes (Queen) Amanirenas Kendakes (Queen) Amanishakheto Kendakes (Queen) Amanitore Kendakes (Queen) Shanakdakhete Kendakes (Queen) Nawidemak Kendakes (Queen) Amanikhatashan Sarauniya (Queen) Bakwa Turunku Sarauniya (Queen) Amina Lingeer (Queen) Ndate Yalla Mbodj Lingeer (Queen) Njembot Mbodj Queen Njinga Ngola Kilombo Queen Idia Queen Gudit Queen Yanu Queen Mary Queen Agnes Queen Mathilda Princess Ewurabena Pokou Queen Ndate Yalla Mbodj Queen Mwana Mikisi Queen Mwana Mwema of Zanzibar Nanak Asma'u bint Usman Fan Fodio Princess Hangbe Empress Eleni

And we never get to hear any such stories when these twats pull their own "history facts" out of their arse. If there's so much real material, then what's with the BS and lies?

@@admirekashiri9879 Wdym...Thats like having to actually work for our money. Better to just do this and call everyone a racist instead!

You forgot to mention the abominable Star Wars movies that Disney put out.

@@cathoderay305 What Star Wars movies? There haven't been any since Revenge of the Sith

​@@cathoderay305rouge one was the only great one, solo was okay but the sequels were no

​@@Ihavethetouch I don't recall any movie called Revenge of the Sith... I do remember Return of the Jedi, which was originally called "Revenge" of the Jedi. There have been a few cool video games though, some even cover the clone wars!

You should write: Disney: Thats nothing I cant make Star Wars irrelevant

She was not white lmao. She was mixed race

She wasn't exactly "white" like Hollywood America thinks of "black" and "white" but that's the issue. Hollywood and the far left ideologues are so racist that they can ONLY see the world in black or white. They literally had a meltdown when an actual Hawaiian actress was cast to play a Hawaiian character in a movie, because her skin was "too light a shade". These people are the actual bigots they accuse everyone else of being. Of course anyone with even half a brain already knows this, but i think the normies are finally starting to wake up to the fact that the woke are the most close minded bigoted fucksticks out there... ironically.

@KnowvilleKnows she came from a weird aristocratic family that intermarried the hell out of each other and, if historical claims are accurate, may have been the first of her family to actually speak Ancient Egyptian along with Greek. She may not have been "white" depending on what you define Greeks as, but she sure as hell wasn't "mixed".

@@Azgalon In the context of Cleopatra she was 100% white. It underminds the entire history of tolemaic egypt. They were colonized by a European power(macedon), if you want to get preachy focus on that. I'd be cool with that woman playing an egyptian female Pharos if it was dated back 2,000 bc. She's blackish, but I sincerely doubt she'd stand out if it her hair was straight in ancient egypt.

@@dixonhill1108 I'm not disagreeing that she was white. I'm replying to the guy above saying she was "mixed" which she absolutely was not. She was Greek which is white in the context of this discussion (but some people differentiate Mediterranean white from Northern European white). The black revisionism of the Mediterranean, be it Ancient Egypt or Carthage, is a joke.

It's Ironic how Hollywood is airbrushing historical figures to make them black while until recently they had been white washing almost everything Asian character in films and tv shows White. Avatar the Last Airbender where all the main characters were Asian but cast as white people. Ghost in a Shell where Major Motoko Kusanagi is a Japanese police Major recast by white actress, Scarlett Johansson.

It’s called the great replacement.

Sie werden uns nicht ersetzen. Blut und boden

Apparently, calling out historical inaccuracies is racist now? When everything is “racist”, nothing is. Sadly, all the power behind the word is quickly losing its meaning due to so much crying wolf.

@@JustDatBoi by labeling all white men racist, they’ve inadvertently created more of them, like me. Technically, I’m “prejudice,” but because they would call that raysism’ I claim the label without care.

My Grandma told me "I don't care what they tell you at school, but they did definitely land on the moon".

That made me laugh so much, hahaha. 😂

@@philholdsworth8280 if your school denies the moon landing I wouldn't trust anything they teach too

@@philholdsworth8280 still hard to believe people still believe that 👀.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Gotta love Grandma.💪👍🥃

This all what it came down in the end, documentary needs to be backed up with real facts, you may want to "spice" the story here and there, but makes all the "majority" and public knowledge right. If they changed some obscure things like maybe "Cleo have bad habits like biting her nails" maybe most people wouldn't know wheter it's true or not. But they changed her race which is common, and Even if they think Cleo was "pure" Egyptian, it's not like all of them have Black African skin. At this point just make new "fantasy" story instead.

"how do you know this?" "it was revealed to me in a dream"

@@alexandredasilvavilasboasrosas "God spoke to me, he said Cleopatra was non-binary"

That grandma git dementia. Ok lady, it's time for your pills

Whilst its not perfect it tells an important story of an African Queen, how that people with darker skin (non-white) were once some of the most powerful people in the world and how it was from Africa that Europe got its power and wealth.

It's the leftist kind of science. Very objective 😆

maybe put documentary between quotes " ?

Yes and it's a very sad thing that our (at least Western) mankind just looks like going down that slope to the end of what exactly : magical thought at every corner of life ?

“My uneducated grandmother who didn’t finish high school and was a maid to a White family which made her racist against White people said Cleopatra was black so it must be true!”

"My uncle works at Nintendo."

You mean Greek Macedonians at the time weren’t black?!! I never knew 😱 In all seriousness. When I heard about a lawsuit I thought it was Greece at first lol

@@lobehold2263 in a hilariously bad attempt at being diverse they managed to offend an entire african country... that's kind of the opposite of what they were trying to do

@@siegebreaker4120 no kidding, they dropped the ball big time. Especially because the Ptolemys practiced inbreeding a lot. That or they married into other diadochi families. So there blood didn’t dilute much from their origin

Don't forget about (North) Macedonia, they have a skin in this game as well

@@user-cr3ti1vj6f Never ask a Greek man his opinion on if Monkeydonians have a stake in Greek history.

Spot on!! Wish I could like this comment more than once

@@DeReAntiqua he should be more worried about what’s going in her mouth

Brilliant

This is top-tier savagery and I love it!

Yeah like how she calls cheating “entanglements” 😂

Two countries. Both Egyptians and Greeks are mad lol

What to say? "Velma was obviously made by amateurs!"

Idk, it takes true masters to unite so many together. Like its impressive, for all the wrong reasons but impressive nonetheless

Well... they are actually accomplishing something? hooray :) LOL

These ‘creators’ are so indoctrinated by their whole worldview that they, I think, really believe that any insistence on historical fact is ‘systemic racism’. These people are racist. They only see race. Not substance. Not truth. Not historical accuracy. Just racism. Everything is racism. And it all points to their own intrinsic value as higher and better than all others because of their supposed victimized status. Nevermind they’re adulterating elites who live in a bubble of class and wealth. Everyone has to affirm their ‘blackness’. It’s all so off-putting and would be laughable if it wasn’t straight up dystopian. Anyway. That’s all I’ve got for today.

Hoo boy. If we’re gonna open that whole “my grandma/grandpa told me _________________” can of worms, as a basis for ultimate truth, it could get interesting.

Cheese or not, the moon is flat...

It is the same old argument, is it the small medulla oblongotta or too many teeth not enough toothbrush?

And sadly this is the same logic lots of people apply towards science. Who cares that there's overwhelming scientific evidence and experience about the importance of vaccines, the shape of the planet or the origin of mankind, if it doesn't meet their mental image of reality it's automatically thrown out the window

Maybe it was Cleopatra Jones?

Assuming they knew the definition of woman

My grandmother told me I'd go blind if I kept doing that...

You probably meant to say "birthing person"

The statement Netflix, "Cleopatra was Black," and the response from Egypt, "No, she wasn't," indicate a difference in perspectives and ideologies regarding Cleopatra's racial background. Let's expand on this topic. The assertion that "Cleopatra was Black" refers to the belief that Cleopatra, the famous queen of ancient Egypt, had African ancestry and should be considered a person of African descent. This viewpoint is often supported by proponents who argue that Cleopatra hailed from a region with a diverse population, including Greek, Egyptian, and African people, and that her family, the Ptolemies, had a history of intermarriage with Africans. Advocates of this perspective may emphasize Cleopatra's interactions with African rulers and her connections to Egypt's southern regions, which had closer cultural and ethnic ties to Sub-Saharan Africa. They might also point to ancient artistic representations of Cleopatra that feature her with features associated with African heritage, such as a broad nose or dark complexion. On the other hand, the response from Egypt, stating, "No, she wasn't," reflects an opposing viewpoint. This perspective holds that Cleopatra, as a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, was primarily of Greek descent and should be considered ethnically Greek or Caucasian. It argues that while Egypt had contact and trade with various regions, including Africa, Cleopatra herself did not have a significant African heritage. Proponents of this viewpoint may focus on the historical context of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which originated from Macedonian Greece and ruled over Egypt for several centuries. They might also highlight Cleopatra's lineage, tracing her ancestry back to Ptolemy I Soter, a Greek general under Alexander the Great. It's important to note that the debate surrounding Cleopatra's ethnicity and racial background is not a recent phenomenon. Historians and scholars have engaged in discussions on this topic for many years, considering various primary sources, archaeological evidence, and cultural contexts. Ultimately, the question of Cleopatra's racial identity remains complex and multifaceted. The lack of definitive historical evidence regarding her physical appearance and the diverse influences within ancient Egypt make it challenging to reach a consensus. The contrasting ideologies surrounding Cleopatra's race reflect the ongoing discourse in historical and cultural studies, where interpretations and perspectives can differ based on individual perspectives, biases, and available evidence.

@@2012nightwatcher How long did it take you to type that nothingburger?

Netflix: "When you care about race so much in favor of black it's woke, but when you care about race so much in anything else including truth and historical facts: it's racist. 😂"

​@@2012nightwatcherchatgpt?

​@@2012nightwatcher dunning kruger detected

Oh, Jada loves a bit too much

The amount of evidence that Cleopatra is black is the same as the amount of hair in Jada's head

She's getting more excited this time of year; soon August will come.

KEEP MY WIFES NAME OUT YOUR EFFING MOUTH!

Or that her husband can take a joke

attempting to erase a cultural identity and then calling others racist for finding fault with it is a hell of a venture

Tbf the people living in modern Egypt don't have anything to do with that culture. Would be the same as saying that latin Americans are the heirs of Aztec culture

How isn't cultural misrepresentation?

​@@Ind3xPlus so you basically said that people today have nothing to do with slavery, yet black people want compensation from current year white people. Fucking dope XD

Actually, the director claimed she was fine with that. The audacity. Lol

Asterix and obelix's representation of gladiators is better than 90% of all other media.

Dissing a whole nation is the next level of stupidity

Wow... Netflix has always been greedy, immoral liars. However, I was truly surprised when they screwed-up so badly that they offend an actual entire country! How much worse can Netflix ruin their own brand?

Bunch of arse-end gollywogs. Just like the jerkwaters that cockedup the story of Galadriel. I suffered through three episodes of that mess, and just about threw my sledgehammer through me telly.

Unbelievable, and you can also clearly see that they're not even basing their controversial statement on any credible ground at all, their only comeback is "well, Egipt is in Africa right? So egiptians ARE africans, therefore black!". As if every single group of people is Africa looks like another, for a team that claims to fight racism, I really wouldn't have expected them to go "ah yes they're all the same, they're africans so they are black and speak with a thick accent". Looks to me like they have never even spoke with an actual Egiptian, otherwise they'd know how they look like.

That’s how I felt as an Englishman when they blackwashed Anne Boleyn, the fact that they knew she was white but still thought it would be a good idea to make her black anyway

They managed to unite the Egyptians into defending the friggin' Ptolemies. The Ptolemies! The quintessential foreign dynasty occupying and exploiting one of the most important Empires of our civilization down the decadence drain until it became a mere Roman Imperial Province. That's some incredible accomplishment from Netflix.

@@nm7358 they're not defending the potlemies tho it's more of defending their ancient history as a whole

@@nm7358 Unlike the Arab Muslims occupying Egypt to this day?

I would be ok if they claim mao, polpot, hitlers as black tho 😂😂 they can change that hisotry

The reality check went over their head trust me

Jada had just enough savvy to realize that hiring real Egyptians would have killed her show before it began.

That would also be like India trying to portray Mikiel Gorbachav as an Indian guy

"George Washington was actually a communist"

and all these "experts" are marxist professors, so your analogy would be correct.

She's an actress trying to act like a big brain. Kind of like most activists come to think of it. She should stick to mediocre acting and cucking her husband.

and their architecture wasn't matched for centuries afterwards.

Forgive me but I must paraphrase one of my favorite movies, the life of Brian. “What did the Romans ever give us “ “ aqueducts, law, sanitation, libraries”. “Well, other than that, what did they give us?

​@@bollard918 China:hold my rice wine...

Just wait till they claim ancient mesopotamia was black lmao

Actresses should not go off script. They're undereducated and overpaid.

Imagine telling "you don't know your history" to one of the countries that SHAPED history

I might as well start telling Japanese people i know their history better than they do. Oh yeah Nobunaga was actually black, my mom said so!

@@norwegianboyee fun fact, you can *actually* make a historically accurate story of a black samurai. His name was Yasuke

I do wonder just how close this one has brought Netflix to actually being dragged into a court somewhere in the world on hate crime charges

It's weird because there are Nubian and Kushite Pharos of Egypt that they could have told the story about in actual Egyptian history But NOOOOOOOOOO they won't even tell their own story of Africa and it's people they need to tell the story of already existing and established stories with now a darker complexion because "muh feelings"

Good point. A very fitting example. Now if it had done well, without blatant criticism, then it would also have been a fine example of hypocrisy.

As a balcanic guy I can agree with making Cleopatra back because pf how racist we are twards greeks being black.

The radical left is used to getting away with it, but a lot of people are getting tired of their never ending lies.

Best comment 🤣

The same libwits will say "follow the science"

Yeah, my gran drank, too

Nailed it.

Who don't have schools anymore, we have indoctrination.

Yeah, but they should've used extreme falsification with Nzinga too. I mean, yes, she was fascinating, and black, but at the same time, her wealth, and the prosperity of her country was based largely on slave trade. So they couldn't actually show Nzinga without admitting, that slave trading wasn't exactly like their core narrative of "evil white men capturing blacks and taking them away from their home". It's easier to lie Cleopatra's skin was black than explaining how Nzinga was so powerful without admitting her being the largest slaver of the region.

​@@sgtGiggsy I don't know why that's the case for the west here in Africa I'm not ashamed of saying what clans did the slave trade. They are long dead anyway and sugarcoating history to make black leaders look cool is just silly. Plus ancient Egypt too did slavery so Cleopatra doesn't get a pass in the slavery part

@@Eh-Mungu-Nguvu-Yetu-q8p But cleopatra didn't participate in the transatlantic slave trade (probably because she died almost twothousand years before that started) and that of course is the only instance of slavery that matters... to US afrocentrists.

Or how about Hatschepsut. She was even an egyptian queen and lived over a thousand years earlier than cleopatra. And while she wasn't sub-sahara african black (because guess what, egypt is not in sub-saharan africa), she at least wasn't greek. And as a bonus for the fashionable patriarchy smasher, after her death significant efforts were undertaken (presumably by her son thutmosis III though that has come under scrutiny lately) to erase her name from history. However, we still know a lot about her and her reign is considered one of the golden ages of ancient egypt.

​@@tranquilthoughts7233 I thought he was her nephew. Im recalling history from middle school of course so maybe im wrong.

Reimagine*

Maybe she was during the time of blockbuster

This black Cleopatra is pure racism in the name of anti-racism. American's stereotypical depiction of other people's race and culture has to stop.

Cleopatra is black because that woman's grandmother was an idiot. That is the actual goddamn reasoning behind the racebait.

My grandmother always used to tell me that no matter what they teach me in school, owning slaves is a good thing.

And Black Ariel?

@@Yoonpsoo Changing her appearance is not even nearly the worst thing that movie has done.

​@@sofija642 for me it was the worst thing and im black. Black Ariel is NOT ariel to me.

Cleopatra was also speculated to be one of George RR Martin's inspirations behind Daenerys Targaryen.

@@Yoonpsoo black Ariel not that bad, but what they did with the rest of the characters? Jail time

And it is weird. They seem to be actively trying to ruin themselves. "Hey let's make an entertaining, historically accurate TV show" "nah"

Well said!

It sounds like the razzie awards and razzie oscars needs their own show, that’ll be amazing

That's cause Netflix has money .

@@bewmdogg It isn't about the money, it is about indoctrination. They will always be funded by the people whose agenda they push.

but Gramma said...

I don't think they were really that interested in historical accuracy. This movie is essentially 'We Wuz Kangs The Movie 2: We Wuz Kwangs'

Grandma said don't believe what they say ,she was black

B-but we wuz quangs n shit..

hello? THEY KNOW. Everybody with half a brain knows Cleopatra was white (Greek). They purposely ignored it because they are trying to change history, wanting to make it less white.

The most insane angle here is the idea that a western filmmaker of Iranian heritage believes that casting a mixed-race British woman in the role of a Greek-Egyptian queen is a pathway to teaching modern Egyptian people about their own identity, and that she is somehow responsible for teaching this lesson while ignoring the protests of actual Egyptian scholars. The absolute narcissism and entitlement in that statement is shocking.

And she clearly thinks all Africans are black! She wants them to see them selves as black, but she says African because she thinks they are the same thing.

Modern Egyptians are Arab oriented😂lmao

Fun Fact: South Africans, many of whom are white, are African. Elon Musk is African. Oh, it's true.

So people from Greece are also Africans now I guess. Jezus that woman is clueless.

All I remember from that Malcolm X movie is Denzel washington getting shot about 10000 in his death scene. As a kid I was shocked by how many bullets he took like it was a bb gun.

Nah, need a documentary about Adolf Hitler starring Samuel L Jackson

@@nont18411 🤣🤣🤣, god damn it, its way too funny imagining Jackson with the hitler stash and speaking in german

Malcolm x directed by and starring Mel Gibson

​@@rudesword2852 once again, brilliant casting!

Agreed. "My truth" is usually just "my opinion" or maybe "my experiences." It certainly isn't "the truth."

Don't you people constantly rewrite and lie in history? Rhetorical question by the way I understand that needs to be specified.

The most evil thing these people are doing is trying to rewrite reality through the news and pop culture. They want everything to bend to their ideas and it's the biggest assault on truth possible. I refuse to give a cent to any of those woke corporations I hope they all crash and burn.

@@Kai...999, people who try to shape history to fit their ideology often lie, whether they realize it or not. The primary agenda in pursuing history should be to discover truth, not shape it. Ideology blinds.

​@@Kai...999no, I've never re written history. Never even wrote about anything historic.

And bald

An "entanglement"

The Drinker lies! Clearly there was a black Queen Cleopatra! Cleopatra Jones ruler of Harlem!

@@scottslotterbeck3796that would get Jada mad

​@@zdvxr And maybe make Will slap someone😂😊

🤣

Race swapping only goes from light to dark, so don't get your hopes up.

😂😂😂

Hmm, that would explain his expansionist tendencies...

"I'd like now to nominate Domhnall Gleeson for the role of Shaka Zulu." Or something along those lines, innit?

Ask the Egyptians. 😂😂😂 . As a south east Asian, it pokes my eyes to see Asians acting as the white British general and his white wife by putting on makeup in history movies. Eye sore.

@@kapawtaw hah. also like, will the world be offended if a highschool full of asians decide to put on a play of hamilton and nobody's black or white? what if a school in africa decide to put on a play of Mulan? They're actors. People need to get a grip.

It's not America; it's the race-baiting shock jocks in media who think offensive lies will garner enough attention to turn a profit, regardless of the division their mindset sews.

Cleopatra plays red eyed black american deck.

Oh, no I’ve played the Blue Eyes White Privilege Dragon. ;D

Lol nice one

HAHAHA awesome comment!

Haha this wins the internet

how's it racist if shes half white half black? Do we ignore the half white side just because she has colour to her skin? Her mum must be disgusted by all the undercover racists

Exactly what most of them do, people getting tired of the black washing

@@Hesienberg2020 Can you explain how someone half white and half black is black?

@@KK-bc8gt are you referring to Adele James? Because pretty much black bro and everyone refers her as black so wym?

@@KK-bc8gt like are you saying she’s white?😂

@@RylieBread No historical figure dead or alive can escape the wrath of Jada Pinkett Smith!

Don't you mean Sugondese?

Remember family guy Meg and Chris replaced by sudanese.

Sabilulungan was his favorite song

No matter what biology tells you, a man can get pregnant and identify as 'them' ... just imagine it and it's true

What makes this funnier is that Shelley Haley, the old lady who cited her grandmother, made that claim.

uuuh, that sounds like... a dark dream

To hunt her house until they retract this shit, i supose

You know, this reminds me of a tidbit about the production of the 1981-Movie "Inchon" I came across on wikipedia: _" In 1978, psychic Jeanne Dixon was consulted to communicate with the spirit of General MacArthur, and Dixon said that MacArthur's spirit endorsed the production of the film."_ You might know this, but "Inchon" was a notorious disaster at the box office.

@@kuribayashi84 “Inchon” sounds like a completely retarded movie.

Its like saying Spanish people and Russians are the same because they are European

Yeah, I mean, did they get their education from Mean Girls or smt?

The Afrikaners are white but they were born in South Africa ha ha ha

or telling elon musk he is black because he is from south african , even if he was real and show billion of us that he is white

I interpreted "Apache" as the Apache Helicopter, and it made this comment even funnier 😂

There's a definitive reason ironically, she was literally a european ruling an african nation. They just white washed Greco Roman history, we probably should be thanking them. It's so ironic that a great example of europeans literally enslaving africans get's turned on its head.

The part that gets me, tbh, is how the showrunner lady says something to the effect of "We don't know that she was black for sure, but we for sure know she wasn't white like Elizabeth Taylor" It's just... the logic literally doesn't work. The only way to know for sure she wasn't white is if you for sure know what she is. If you don't for sure know she was black, how can you for sure know that she wasn't white? Like... you get what I mean, right?

That's an excellent question. Nefertiti is the one associated with the Black power movement and Black Feminism. Cleopatra was seen as too white.

@@deleteman900 We don' t know what Cleopatra looks like thanks to Cleopatra. She would change her appearance based on her circumstance. She actually dressed like a Roman Matron when she was in Rome. She looks more "Greek" in Sculptures and coins because she probably ordered the artist to do so.

The weird undertones of the whole black civilization thing sounds eerily similar to the Ayran myths of the Nazis. Afrocentrism have created this mythology where all the ancient was black including Greece stretching all the way to Japan as though there were some kind of homogeneous connection to it all and something to be proud of while indignant it was stolen and hidden from them - again similar to the Ayran myths. Funny thing is this black identity means little in Africa North or sub-saharan. It's primarily an American thing

I love it when these activists try to color history with their modern biases (no pun intended). The modern understanding of "white" did not exist back then in the way we understand it today, especially in the Mediterranean, which was essentially one big melting pot. Cleopatra was probably swarthy, like many women in the Mediterranean, but she was DEFINITELY not a "melanated sister."

@@darthdaddy3071 Correct. Back then, all of the "Whites" were very much killing each other off for being Etruscan, Greek, Thracian or whatever else. All "White" by today's definition but obviously they didn't give a damn.

Blacks don't have any history to be proud of. If they did. They wouldn't have too culturally appropriate other people's history.

Honestly you try hard to portray yourself as this intelligent man. But your just a guy on the couch drunk most of the time typing on youtube.

​@@darthdaddy3071 so who are the giant statues of black people . we know that cleopatra was after Egypt was abandon so she probally wasent but those Pharoahs that look like NBA players..who are they

The funniest thing is modern Egyptians are Arabs, so they don't even have any stake in the Greek dynasties or even the original ancient Egyptians. The modern Egyptians complaining is purely from historical inaccuracy, not even a you vs me thing.

Careful now, Jada don't like backtalk.

@@Grasslander Actually, as I understand it, Egyptians are not Arabs, they are ethnic Egyptians, even though they do speak Arabic.

@@NFS0038 you do realize we have mummies and modern egyptians so we can do DNA tests right?

I cant believe theynotmake movie about black Moses or Noah

That's just what americans do in general. They tell the whole world what is right and what is wrong.

@@delinquentis9971 Yep, this a continuation of the same echo chamber that ride America quasi-monopoly on global cinema and popular arts to push their world views into others. This Cleopatra and Lizzie's one where made in the same echo chamber, just with different people abusing the same "reach" for similar core purposes.

Dont worry buddy, we respect your culture that has been inherited by your ancestors. Don't listen to an uncultured country, even they ancestor was from cross atlantic.

@@williamsmith9948 I'm from northern Cali. The south is an absolute fuckfest. You know the place is messed up when there's so much smog you can't even see the sky on a clear day.

Here is the thing and you may disagree because I'm also American but I don't agree with the sentiment that it's just your "own history that they obviously have nothing to do with." I personally think it's more complicated then that. America carries over the western tradition and spirit that tends to start historically with the Greeks our laws and culture are fundamentally rooted in Greco-Roman culture, ethics and morals just like the rest of the west. So without places like Athens and Rome and men like Cicero and Cincinnatus the United States would likely not have the form it has today since it was their history that led to our founders making many of the decisions they did. So I can't agree that its just YOUR history when its that very history that is responsible for my own. Now this is just my opinion but the problem is more that Black Americans have been manipulated by certain corrupt institutions into believing that they can't possible identify with non Black individuals. But they want to identify with this history because it is the history of the culture they are a part of, so they do things like this to make it easier for them.

Jada really handing out N cards here

You are not black! You are African American!

Well, go and loot yourself some Nikes and a big screen TV. It's your culture.

@@FlaviusConstantinus306 is coptic even a culture ? i was sure it was a religion :D

Do you feel oppressed now?

Outrage, she was 1/4 Thai.

Nope. She's a historical person people have heard about so she *must* have been a white man.

All hail trans Cleopatra 🤢

Its true. My grandma said so.

Cope she was a latina, read more history books you bigotred nerds 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

Meemaw type to lay off the cat food.

Grammy got dat dementia😅

And yet at the same time, kids are being taught that boys can be girls just because they feel like it in schools now.

It's literally just the meme "Cleopatra was black." "Ok grandma let's get you to bed"

And racist

@@wheatyes2104 did you hear it from your grandma as well?

@@peeyushverma2284 nah, I think it was from "extra history" but I could be wrong. I'll delete the comment if I am wrong

​@@wheatyes2104 i wrote that reply in zest. Anyways, extra history came to that conclusion after looking at her face in the coins..but the faces (of her and the husband) in those coins were butt ugly tbh. The faces were probably romanized to cater public, as they usually are..hence, the prominent nose and chin, along with other characteristics associated with it. The truth is, we don't actually know how she would look like as we don't have her skeleton to look at. Most paintings and statues are artist's imagination than the real deal.

@@peeyushverma2284 That's fair. I guess the same with Queen Elizabeth 1, since we don't know if she was romantized either. It's nice to talk to a rational person

Damn, your sister is a savage.

Genius

This is too good!! 🤣🤣🤣

Nope. She was Russian. And her name was Cleya Patrovna.

No, she was French. Her real name was Clé au Pâtre. My grandma told me so.

Nah, she was actually a guy named Claus O'Peter. It was revealed to me in a dream

Okay, I need to ask: how come every time someone makes this, Ryan Gosling is ALWAYS fancasted as MLK? Is there something I am missing? Like, Gosling saying that he would have loved to play him, or perhaps there's a role where he's pretty much MLK or something

​@@NIDELLANEUM, the internet made a meme of a promo poster for an MLK doc with Ryan Gosling as MLK. It's been around for ages.

@@MaddDogg316 oh okay, I kinda missed out on that. Felt weird, like "why is ALWAYS him the one chosen as a white MLK?"

@@NIDELLANEUM , lol. NP 🤘.

i would honestly pay to see rosa park portrayed by jakie chan and kicking ass right and left during the civil right movement era

​@AliciaJade.Booo wheres the potato recipie?

“We have Cleopatra at home”

Didn't realize documentaries could be pure fiction now. All while claiming to still be true.

Well yes she was with Macedonian ancestors and Egyptian, both

We Wuz Kangz 'n Sheeeeit

YES, they were Greek. So, not black. How nobody from Netflix doesn't know history or at least to research a bit?

​@@aminamemic2141 Naive of you to think they weren't fully aware of what they were doing.

YOU GUYS ARE JUST MAD CUZ SHE BLACK JUST SAY IT IT DOWSNT MATTER THE SKIN COLOR

@@Kekoa552 when we don’t know properly where she is buried a debate on her skin tone is useless

@@aminamemic2141 they might have some traces of middle eastern Persian and African ancestry with Greek being more prominent

On the bright side, all i knew about cleopatra was that she was supposedly incredibly beautiful... now i know she wasn't a great leader and a lot about her ancestry and life.

I can feel your pain mate! The west has to (not everyone) force their ideals somewhere else! We even look up to the ancient Egypt as a great civilization despite our own civilization which has craziest hydrological advancements (South Asia). But it seems they can't respond to their social issues with proper solutions. Instead, they distort the culture & history of nations & people which had done nothing wrong to them.

@@hasithagayalambattaya8929 the west is a very strange term to use when referring to hollywood.

@@turbo8628 My bad! I was referring to say Hollywood. But still, Sometimes the "west" term is also valid. At least for the US context that is.

@@hasithagayalambattaya8929 it's ok. I kind of assume that everyone means america anyway. I am from england... we are hated for plenty of reasons, but hollywood isn't one of them at least 😅

They legit thought a Universal Monster Movie reboot was the same as a Docudrama series 💀

The Mummy never said it's a documentary. Plus, egyptian actually loved how they portrayed 1920s Cairo and it looks quite accurate

A fictional movie is not the same as a documentary.

And the irony is that Arnold Vosloo, albeit being South African, I felt had a very convincing Egyptian look to him. This is just a disgrace.

Yeah they obviously didn’t want people to believe that mummies can come back from the dead and absorb the souls of people or that scarabs can eat people from the inside out lmao.

But my friends friend's cousin's grandpa said both Wakanda and MLK Jr were white!

@@jakomioftherose2434 sarcasm?

rates at the 'purged with holy fire' level of burn :)

Hail davidpaz Hail davidpaz

BURRRRRNNNN!!!

Someone did ur comment earlier, and written better. This is on par with "did iiiiii doooo that" 5 years after family matters

Heyy!! Will Smith is a cuckold by choice...accept the lifestyle people.😅

The one thing that tells you enough about this show is the rotten tomatoes score. We are used to low audience scores by now due to movies and shows simply not being good, or being inaccurate lorewise to a franchise. But the fact that VERY few critics actually watched this and those that does also dislike it tells you alot. Usually they love character changes as long as they are in a ...certain way. But even they knew this is to hot to handle, or: lying about how good this is would be even worse compared to other projects so they either didn't watch it or had enough intelligence to not praise it.

Velma is from HBO, this is from Netflix

@@valentin7693 Correct. I was speaking to the general ambition.

It looked impossible. But they managed to do it. The best "Grab my beer I have seen in a lot of time". Is like an underdog wining a major League like. Bournemouth, West Ham or Nottingham forest winning 23/24 Premier League.

Velma is horrible but it's kinda funny how hard it tries to be funny. Also the fact that the writers are forcing their political biases in every other line, makes it somewhat entertaining to watch. I definitely wouldn't watch it again though.

My wife is European Russian and I tell her she's Asian because of that very fact. For some reason she gets offended by that😆

Imagine allowing the ones who's been exiled from over 100 countries embed themselves in governments throughout the entire world to destroy Jesus Christ creation.

We are the Scythians! We are the slit-eyed Asians! - Although Blok was also wrong. 😊

@@fairfortune67 key word European Russian you are literally calling her something she isnt most of russias population is in Europe and the rest was conquered during the 16th and 17th century

It's not exactly that bad of an argument since technically speaking, Russians are indeed "Asians" to an extent. And "Asian" is a very broad term since it means anyone from Asia. What you need to say is either "EAST ASIAN" or anyone from the 6 major chink eyed-eyed i.e. China, Taiwan, North & South Korea, Japan and Mongolia. And why settle for an "Asian actor". Why not cast Kim Jong Un as Anastasia? It's more inclusive and ticks the best boxes especially if Kim identifies as a lesbian attack helicopter. And anyone who's against it is a racist, misogynist and a bigot.

The Caucasus mountains are in Asia. So in fact Genghis Kahn was white.

now I know why I have never heard of or seen this genhis kahn movie, it must be hilarious. It might be worth it to watch just to laugh at the duke playing kahn. Back then, they would portray an obviously jewish guy from new york as a native american, just put some makeup on him, it will be fine

​​​@@italianknight78 Genghis came from Mongolia, idiot. He wasn't a Hun like Atilla.

Happy thanksgiving pilgrims

My grandma told me, "Attila the Hun, Caligula, Ivan the terrible, and Vlad the Impaler were all black women. All of them were Jada Pinkett Smith's self inserts."

Honestly, it's sort of weird in general, being proud of the past; even if I was a direct descendent of a hero, like, so? I wasn't the one who did whatever he or she did, it's not right for me to get my sense of self-worth based on their accomplishments. I really only care enough to counter when people try to tell me to be ashamed of myself because of the past.

Its the weaklings mindset

Yes!!! Absolutely!

Right. Their whole mantra is "I'm special and unique" but need to see someone physically similar to themselves to feel "represented"

It’s something thats very unique to black americans, you don’t see real africans doing it because they know their indentity. Certain black americans wanna make their history something that is proud and not filled with pain i guess so they make up stuff like this.

And in the same year no less.

As a Black woman, I'm sick of Black and White movie makers using biracial and mixed-race actresses to play the role of Black actresses. For example, Halle Berry, Zendaya, Zoey Zaldana, Paula Patton, and many others should not be used to play or represent Black women. There needs to be more Black actresses in movies with lead roles. Black women are fed up with seeing biracial and mixed-race women such as Halle Berry, Zendaya, Zoe Zaldana, and Paula Patton portraying Black women. As far as I'm concerned, Netflix is promoting everybody except Black women, and everybody knows this. This is why I do not watch or support movies that use fake Black women to play real Black women. These are examples of real Black women: Viola Davis, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard, Javicia Leslie, Keke Palmer, Kimberly Elise, Kiki Lane, Lovie Simone, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tika Sumpter, Skai Jackson, Ryan Destiny, Regina King, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Brandy, etc. Smh

@@rhondae8222 so, these women who are at least partially black aren’t black enough for you to permit them to admit their own heritage? That seems awfully colorist, if not actually racist, to me. Why not just let all those women, both light and dark skinned, play black characters?

And they are all beautiful and talented. I totally agree with you.

It is not about "permit", it is about accuracy of representation. Obviously, we can not expect filmmakers to track the character's ancestry to n'th degree, and find a suitable actress - but at some point, it definitely feels "eh, close enough"

Called cheating on her husband an entanglement too. She liked that word, I think she thinks it makes her sound deep and mysterious.

Unless it's quantum entanglement, it's still not the truth

What's your point Blacks sold slaves to whites Blacks who didn't comply with slave trade would be attacked by other black tribes supported by whites in forms of soldiers and weapons Romans conquered killed and took slaves Slavery is a stain on human history Black slavery is one of the most disgusting immoral thing a group of people have ever done, Calling out blacks for the african part of the slave trade, are you trying to absolve white people by making them not look as bad Laughing at the african queen because she was involved in slavery, and so accurate to 200000 based on what, Look at the Spanish to the south Americans, loads can be listed when talking about what white people have done

Oh wow that's pretty bad on her part. Sold people off for money... Meanwhile, the Netflix "docs" wash over the facts about these historical figures. Those shows are pure fiction if they don't even try to make it historically accurate.

Still better than starring someone who was almost certainly not black in a series about black queens.

The North African Barbary pirates were capturing and enslaving white people well into the 1800’s. That’s why the US Marine Corps hymn sings of the “shores of Tripoli”.

White people didn’t even do the slavery thing. Not in the way people see as evil. Slaves were prisoners of war so captives couldn’t form a new army or criminals working off their debt to society. Or in Rome, people could sell themselves into carefully protected slavery for a time to pay off debts. Slavery the way the world thinks of it and in terms of raiding people to enslave them is an African and Arabian thing. There’s also evidence that white people learned slavery from them.

Built from tried and true Ancient Texts and technical documents, armalite designed their series of weapons to be built just like the Romans intended

My grandpa once told me the persians were using tiger tanks but the romans were able to hold them oh yea forget he also told me thera are ONLY 30 romans but they are able to defend the maginot line using javelins and pushing the persian back to their homeland, the underground world (persians are actually lizars people living under our ground)

My grandpa told me that Mansa Musa, the (probably) richest man of all time was not black, but descendant of arabic merchants.

Lovely lady tho. When she wasn't drinking. Which was often.

Hey, if you've seen the new Indiana Jones movie then it's entirely plausible that Romans used WW2 era German weaponry.

And that's the opposite of what the historian actually said! It's selective editing.

"All right, let's hear what Mama has to say on the subject." - Colonel Sanders

lol

@@bin_made_of_fur ​ As I said elsewhere, you did not provide a complete quote, so I had to find the following. It's all justification for her childhood belief, with a strawman thrown in. Claiming that 'the historian said the opposite' of 'Cleopatra was black' is misleading at best, and a lie at worst. "But, ultimately, Haley says in the series, “We don’t know her exact racial heritage.” “She learned the Egyptian language. She practiced the Egyptian religion,” Haley says in the docudrama. “She wants to be remembered as an Egyptian.” “Ancient Egyptians would have had a variety of different complexions, as we find in other African cultures today,” adds Cleopatra scholar Sally-Ann Ashton, also featured in the series. “Given that Cleopatra represents herself as an Egyptian, it seems very strange that we insist on depicting her as a wholly European.”" www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/05/12/queen-cleopatra-looks-netflix-controversy/

@@bin_made_of_fur Erratum: the strawman is not Haley's, but Ashton's. Ashton's quote is, however, necessary to give essential context to Haley's usage of 'Egyptian'.

wow, really? no wayyy. x_x

He made a show called Cleopatra but the story will not be about Cleopatra...

Then the director should have done a documentary about himself.

I mean, haven't we all poisoned a sibling to gain a throne at some point?

@@SolidGoldCEO I know I have!

Very underrrated show. And yes, amazing Cleopatra there.

true, and cleopatra was part of greek royal family in egypt that originated in alexender the great army during conquest of the known world she was a descendent of prob one of the generals of alexander

Not a movie/TV show, but her portrayal in Assassins Creed Origins was also pretty cool

That was a brilliant series. Cleopatra was great although I think she was much prettier than real life Cleopatra.

Agreed. She was excellent.

Watching this video made me realize that I don't actually know many black historical women who were leaders of Nations! Maybe if Netflix could put some effort into its documentaries they wouldn't be so overlooked!

She’s taught in world history. Her and the General in the Roman Civil war were the second faction of two against Octavian. Gave Romeo and Juliet vibes with their deaths, but they were more kickass. This show could have been great…

They needed at least one story that every one had heard of before to hook people into the series

And they didn't have a problem with her being casted as white all 50x

@@DeadPiixxel Why would they? She was white after all LOL

And ALL of these weirdo’s fantasies. This was green lit and worked on by a lot of them. They all really thought this was a good idea.

Her agenda should be, not fucking her children's friends.

Never believe a word from a woman who literally looks like a serpent 🐍

Everything yr told bout history is a lie.

Jada is an awful, awful, awful person.

Damn right.

As a Black woman, I'm sick of Black and White movie makers using biracial and mixed-race actresses to play the role of Black actresses. For example, Halle Berry, Zendaya, Zoey Zaldana, Paula Patton, and many others should not be used to play or represent Black women. There needs to be more Black actresses in movies with lead roles. Black women are fed up with seeing biracial and mixed-race women such as Halle Berry, Zendaya, Zoe Zaldana, and Paula Patton portraying Black women. As far as I'm concerned, Netflix is promoting everybody except Black women, and everybody knows this. This is why I do not watch or support movies that use fake Black women to play real Black women. These are examples of real Black women: Viola Davis, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard, Javicia Leslie, Keke Palmer, Kimberly Elise, Kiki Lane, Lovie Simone, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tika Sumpter, Skai Jackson, Ryan Destiny, Regina King, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Brandy, etc. Smh

sometimes all you need is hate

That's pretty much any child on the internet *puts a lot of effort into being annoying* Why are you so annoyed? Lmao

Please learn History: The Egyptians today are not the Original Egyptians, they are Arabs decendent from the Caliphate conquests of North Africa. Secondly, yes Cleopatra was Mix raced, her farther was a white man ( Ptolemy XII Auletes ) a greek and her mother was Black, despite of the skin colour, she's off her fathers race. I've not watched the Movie but it's really troubling seeing comments of people who don't even understand basic history and base the entire knowledge on Hollywood Norms.

@@wgbhg Then why is Egypt so upset?

@@wgbhg If you're going to complain about revisionism, Don't spout blatant revisionism. Cleopatra's mother is uncertain. She could have been a relative or sister of her father Ptolemy XII. We don't know, nor is it even certain whether she was legitimate or not. Her father was a bastard himself, but who's to say where his mother came from? There is no definite evidence although many scholars have ventured guesses. What we do have to go off of makes it clear she would have been any of acedonian Greeks, Persians, Sogdians and even Pontic nobility, but her being "Mixed Black" is astronomically unlikely.

@@Lucifixcode Becasue they can't accept the truth, they are not the Eygytians, they all are arabs. They even have a arab league...... How can you claim to be both an arab and a Eygptian, makes no sense, you can't be two different races of people .

This!

I find it funny they wanted a show about a black ruler but chose a ruler that at the very most, would have been half black. A notion that is less likely than the possibility of her being completely Greek. A notion that also dismisses the possibility that her mother was neither Greek or of sub-Saharan heritage. Many different peoples were present in Egypt.

Seriously. They even had Angolan queens they could have gone for.

She is the most famous queen of all time. Jada's full of shit as usual.

@@iratepirate3896 That would have taken hard work in the research department and trust in the audience's intelligence.

Korean amazonian. Don't leave out the lack of Y chromosomes, misogynist.

They were so brave defending against Christopher Columbus and the White tyranny he brought to South East Asia.

​@@MagcargoMan The pundits are probably afraid they get canceled for talking about french black man Gerard Butler portraying a Jewish King.

@@MagcargoMan I complained they ignored the thousands of greeks who fought and died alongside the Spartans. Well that and portraying Persia as monster the greeks were bigger dicks. That said 300 never sold itself as a documentary just historical fiction

Lee Oh Nee Dah famous Korean general. Only Koreans might get offended by this shit... Like 100% for sure

Oh they even call egyptians racists now. Oppressed poor US americans with no rights like the smiths.

Yeah, who does Pinkett Smith think she is... 1955's Head of the British Museum? :P

And then being called racist when they complain about it. It doesn't get much more rediculous.

It can always get worse. Some think ancient rome didn't even exist

Americans in a nutshell

Yea, Will's got a peach there I'll tell ya 🙄

Keep her name out your f'en comments!!

​@@dsmyify It was a G.I JANE joke!....

Anyone unfortunate to see any of her movies or her talentless offspring's ever?

It's actually 1%....!

I'm still waiting for Queen Charlotte to get stink. She is at 7.2 right now.

I'm actually amazed. Didn't think we'd get another addition of dumpster shyte from Hell so soon after but I was wrong!🤯 Wonder what else can get even worse than this this year...

Oh, SHI-....... NOW you've gone and done it! You just HAD to tempt fate, didn't you?!?

Now we'll probably get a Velma/ Cleopatra crossover.

As a Black woman, I'm sick of Black and White movie makers using biracial and mixed-race actresses to play the role of Black actresses. For example, Halle Berry, Zendaya, Zoey Zaldana, Paula Patton, and many others should not be used to play or represent Black women. There needs to be more Black actresses in movies with lead roles. Black women are fed up with seeing biracial and mixed-race women such as Halle Berry, Zendaya, Zoe Zaldana, and Paula Patton portraying Black women. As far as I'm concerned, Netflix is promoting everybody except Black women, and everybody knows this. This is why I do not watch or support movies that use fake Black women to play real Black women. These are examples of real Black women: Viola Davis, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard, Javicia Leslie, Keke Palmer, Kimberly Elise, Kiki Lane, Lovie Simone, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tika Sumpter, Skai Jackson, Ryan Destiny, Regina King, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, Brandy, etc. Smh

@@rhondae8222 Trust me. As a white man, I am sick of seeing black men with white women all the time in every commercial. There's always gonna be a mutt-orch in every commercial. The washing of white history is ridiculous because sincerely blacks do not have that much of history recorded and that's their own failure.

Blah blah shut up nobody wants a black anything 😂

@@rhondae8222 Congratulations on not having anything meaningful in your life. Now get over yourself.

@@rhondae8222why should netflix be promoting one race at all? thats black supremacy

Could have at least avoided having the country of Egypt sue them or something

I think there would have been only 10% the backlash if it was just a played-straight historical fiction drama, that started with a subtitle saying "What if?" Of course that would only have got 10% the notoriety too, so not good enough for a narcissist.

Na, it wouldn't have been as bad but Bridgerton wasn't as clear cut on the race thing and isn't anywhere near as famous.

I find Bridgeton odd. It is a bit creepy that others want to pretend they are British historical aristocracy and appropriate someone else's culture.

Bridgerton was never really portrayed as history. It was historical fantasy and quite open about it. It was wildly popular because it had the period trappings that many women love and combined it with modern day politics. It was a show that was targeted at liberal women and was successful because of it.

He has to slap the WORLD! Or maybe just dump that loser and get his balls back.

I'm imagining Will Smith smacking random people on the street with a scowling Jada Pinkett storming behind him.

@@DrCruel Oh god, that mental image. Thank you SO MUCH, I'm dying here! 🤣

Will is coming for each of us....

@@stewgems4256 He's not the celebrity we want. He's the celebrity we deserve. 🦇