Egypt Is Pissed at Netflix Over Blackwashing Cleopatra

Jada Pinkett Smith decided to screw with people's history, and those people have a problem with that. Cleopatra was not Black, Egypt tells Netflix ahead of new series

Imagine how Jada Pinkett Smith would feel if someone were to make a "documentary" about Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and cast a white actor. That is pretty much how the government of Egypt is reacting over her casting of a black actress to play Cleopatra.

But Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities argued that the documentary nature of the feature “requires those in charge of its production to investigate accuracy and rely on historical and scientific facts.”

Coins and statues from the time show a light-skinned woman, in keeping with Cleopatra's Macedonian Greek ancestry, it argued.

And while Smith admitted that she wanted to see "Black Queens" on TV and in movies, she decided to screw around with other people's history, and they don't care for that.

One of Egypt’s most famous archaeologists and twice-serving antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, was adamant: Cleopatra was not Black.

“If we see statues and forms of her father and brother, we will not find any evidence supporting this claim that she was black,” he said in a statement.

Hawass added that Egypt at the time of Cleopatra’s reign ruled over the Kingdom of the Kush, also known as Nubia, in what is now Sudan and southern Egypt, with its distinctive Black African culture. “But they have no connection with the Pharaonic civilization,” he said.

But never say that the Woke Scolds (who were all about 'Trust the Science' when they liked the science) would trust to history. They hate history, and so they lie.

The hat tip goes to Ryan Kinel at RK Outpost: Black Cleopatra BACKLASH Gets WORSE For Netflix | Egypt SLAMS THEM Over Woke Race Swapping. That's a 5 minute video of Angry Ryan enjoying a bit of schadenfreude.