Social justice bores are in a tizzy over the latest reports that certain actresses are being considered to reprise the role of Egyptian queen Cleopatra, not because one of them is the woefully overhyped Lady Gaga and the other is the hopelessly contrived Angelina Jolie, but rather that both of the celebrities are white.
Here's the thing: Cleopatra was white. In fact, as the same social justice bores might put it, she exemplified white privilege. A product of centuries of inbreeding, Cleopatra inherited her prestige and slept her way up to the top. In practice, she lacked the political acumen, and her real beauty must have paled in comparison to that of the iconic Liz Taylor, who infamously took on the role in her heyday.
The Ptolemaic dynasty of which Cleopatra was one, was all Macedonian Greeks. How did they maintain that racial makeup while ruling Egypt for generations? Inbreeding.
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AHHHH. The poor Blacks. Demand, demand, demand. What ever happened to Equality?? Just wanted to be treated fairly. They have had black privilege from both to death for 80 years. It's over losers. People don't care. Why?? Because you can't act like decent people. You can't do a job that's given to you. Why do you think your all working for the government. They must hire you!!
ReplyDeleteUgggh you are disgusting. I bet you live in your parents house, sleep in your twin bed and look at pictures of your girlfriend in your mom's magazines.
DeleteThe co-opting of Egypt as an African culture is a modern misnomer.
ReplyDeleteIn 2017 a genetic study was conducted on 83 mummies from northern Egypt (buried near modern-day Cairo), which constituted "the first reliable data set obtained from ancient Egyptians using high-throughput DNA sequencing methods." The study showed that Ancient Egyptians had the greatest affinity for modern Middle Eastern (Arab, Levantine and Anatolian) populations, and had significantly more affinity with southeastern Europeans than with sub-Saharan Africans. Nevertheless, there was a significant sub-Saharan African component in the ancestry of three of the mummies tested: "absolute estimates of African ancestry using these two methods in the three ancient individuals range from 6 to 15%." This level of sub-Saharan African ancestry is significantly lower than that of modern Egyptians from Abusir, who "range from 14 to 21%."[5] The authors of the study cautioned that the samples were from mummies recovered in the north of Egypt, and thus may not be representative of Ancient Egypt as a whole. They called for additional research to be undertaken.