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>but over the trailer of the documentary (i added the link) which literally says she was a black woman. Err, no, it doesn't literally say that. There is: 1) A
by foldr 4y ago
>but over the trailer of the documentary (i added the link) which literally says she was a black woman.
Err, no, it doesn't literally say that. There is:
1) A man with light brown skin saying that he imagines Cleopatra as having the same skin tone as him and curly hair, which is entirely plausible (though far from certain) given what is known about her ancestry.
2) A woman saying that her grandma told her that Cleopatra was black.
It's nothing more than a nod to the longstanding controversy over Cleopatra's race and appearance, which far predates anything usually covered by the meaningless term of abuse 'woke'. Part of the problem here is that 'black' as a racial category didn't really exist in Egypt in the 1st century BC, so it's a bit of a silly debate anyway.
- seydor 4y ago[flagged]
- foldr 4y agoIt briefly shows one person saying that their grandma said it. There's no suggestion that any particular claim about Cleopatra's appearance is endorsed by the documentary as definitely true. In general, as I'm sure you're aware, it's misleading to say that a documentary "says X" if X isn't a claim that the documentary itself is endorsing. > they could at least show a bust of her Are you sure that they don't? This is just the trailer. Perhaps they could use this racially ambiguous 1862 depiction of Cleopatra by William Wetmore Story: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/william-wetmore-story-cleopatra/ https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/william-wetmore-st... (The 1860s were, of course, a notoriously 'woke' period of American history.)