Why did they make cleopatra a black person?

[LadiesFavoriteToy]

Honestly everyone knows she was white but Netflix got woke and decided to play the color game and have a black person play the roll... I hate this b. s. its entitlement because of your skin color. Give people of color special privileges because they are black? Wtf.. I have met many black people who are so sick of the skin color entitlements.

[FreyaRed]

Netflix hates white people. This is my simple conclusion. From business perspective pissing on your richest consumer group in US and EU is completely idiotic. Black people aren't liked at Chinese entertainment market either. I guess Netflix can afford this kind of trolling.

[Anonymous]

Just more political correct bull shit, trying to make a false made up history for dumb asses to see and believe. Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolomey, one of Alexander the Great's generals. She was Greek/ Macedonian ancestry. This is like that bullshit show about Queen Charlotte, now she is a black German. Left wing Liberal political correct propaganda bullshit to teach the dumb asses and give them a false history.

[BCA6010]

Jada Smith and probably multiple others involved in the making are delusional, vicious racists. It's really no more complicated than that.

[purplepoppy]

She was of Greek origin so would have been more olive than white. As for Netflix, what do you expect? Just be grateful they didn't make her into a wheelchair bound lesbian fighting to compensate the slaves.

[LadiesFavoriteToy]

Now that you said that... they should have made her like that. This world is a screwed up place. Maybe make the past presidents black too if they make a movie about them too...

[purplepoppy]

Lincoln was dark skinned

[slatyb]

She was Egyptian. Why would you imagine she was white?

[FreyaRed]

Ptolemaic dynasty Cleopatra belonged to came from Greece and Macedonia. Being born in Africa doesn't make you African.

[slatyb]

@FreyaRed what's your source for that?

[FreyaRed]

Maybe there is some audio book of wikipedia

[slatyb]

@FreyaRed So you just made it up? It seems certain that her complexion was at least as dark as it is for modern Egyptians.

[FreyaRed]

Yeah, she came from Wakanda.

[EricSummer]

@slatyb - Today's Egyptians are white as per the U. S. Census guidance. I think we have to go by that.
My country, Switzerland, does not distinguish races, and neither does biology. Our species has no subspecies. (By contrast, the Eurasian red squirrel has several subspecies. It is possible, it just does not apply to us.)

[Dargil]

To appease Black audiences to buy more subscriptions.

[HippieVeganJewslim]

Because I reckon she was born in Africa (what now is Egypt), although being a Macedonian Greek.