Funny how they keep saying that Cleopatra wasn’t “black” or swarthy, yet I keep finding depictions of her from the 1300’s in illuminated manuscripts, as well as in 1800’s 🎨 from France and Italy (done by Europeans!) as exactly that.
This stuff only became a debate after the invention of things like Social Darwinism, i.e. Scientific Racism, which perpetuated the pseudo-scientific idea that all darker-skinned people are a lesser species that evolved from the Troglodyte niger (Chimpanzees).
They don't teach us that a majority of European countries underwent "ethnic cleansing" leading up to WWII, hence the reason why these places look the way that they look today. Back then the Mediterranean, while under Islamic rule for roughly 900 years, was known as the Orient or Western Asia. So-called Greeks and Italians weren’t even considered “white” (at least by American standards) until the 1950’s.
Also, some of these so-called “Egyptians” think we’re all just stupid. They think that we’re not aware that the Egyptian Media has been a catalyst for the ongoing racism against the indigenous Nubians who were living in the country before the Arab invasion. They're totally fine when you're being portrayed in any type of slave role, but god forbid you be put in a sovereign position of authority...
We don’t need Hollywood to “represent or include us”, nor tell us our history. Let these delusional, indoctrinated goofballs be mad 🤣🤷🏾♂️ Oderint, dum metuant!
Black basalt statue of Cleopatra VII