Greetings all,
Although a bit out of our realm, there is currently a
petition protesting an "Afrocentric" documentary on Netflix about Queen
Cleopatra being produced by Jada Smith, the wife of Will Smith, which
is promoting the idea that Cleopatra (of the Ptolemaic Dynasty) was in
reality a black woman. An article on the documentary is here:
The petition, should anyone care to sign it, can be found here:
It seems to me this is much more an issue of bad
revisionist history rather than an issue of race. Why anyone would
attempt to co-opt the Greek/Egyptian history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty
rather than explore and promote the amazing histories of say Nubia, Kush
and Akxum as important wonders in their own right is beyond me.
The petition has been raised by both Greek and Egyptian supporters, and has apparently been deleted once already on Change.org. Hopefully being on the "right side of history" in this case means standing up for real history....
-Marcus Cassius Julianus
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