Queen Cleopatra - I Wasted 4 Hours So You Don't Have To!
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2023
- Here's my take on Netflix's controversial Queen Cleopatra documentary!
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Love you bro
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We do
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Great bro
My great uncle always told me, "No matter what they tell you in school, Hitler was an oppressed woman who fought for the right to vote."
I'M FUCKING CRYING
This is beautiful. 😢❤
And she married a Jewish man
And live peacefully ever after in argentina
🤣🤣🤣
As an Asian, My father told me"No matter what they tell you in school, George Washington was a Chinese"
Oh I'm absolutely sure about that. You just need to go back far enough, like just a bit further than our earliest written records ever (which btw is roughly 6.000 years), and you're bound to find a common ancestor for him and some random chinese guy - and boom there you have it.
@@dorderre It's completely make sense
@@dorderre if homo sapiens made stickmen art on clear cave walls with a red stone it's the proof they were red, 100%
Washington: years ago I was chinese, now I'm a naturalized American. In China my name was Su Jian Ren
When he pulled out tanks in front of all the protesting Native Americans, I shed a tear
As a Canadian, I remember my grandma telling me, “I don’t care what they tell you in school, Justin Trudeau is black.”
Yeah especially during Halloween.
@@onyxblack1167 He's just race fluid.
I don’t think he’s allowed within a couple hundred meters of a school. Him or his nda that forced him to quit teaching for messing around with students
@@fafjaafhXD. That is what we should call “that” from now on.
Is his gender fluid too?
As a mexican, My grandmother always said: "I don't care what they tell you in school, Jesus was mexican, and their friends actually called him Chuy" My cactus plantation agreed
Cactus don't put their word on something unless it's true!
As a Mexican, wtf am i seeing?
@@SERP3NTER A joke that you should not take seriously.
@@benedictlukas2223 thanks
That explains why he was so good at building
As a South Indian, my grandfather told me "No Matter what they tell you, Martin Luther King was a South Indian who spoke Telugu". Even my cat confirmed the same in meows.
I can confirm this, because I too 'had a dream' about MLKJ and he was definitely South Indian.
You are all wrong. MLK was half Chinese and half Eskimo. My blind parrot told me.
Namaste anna😂
i love this so much 😂😂
As my grandfather said: "I don't care what school says to you. Gandhi was italian, ate just pasta and his real name was Gianni". Proof.
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Yoooo Let's make a Netflix documentary about that
As Italian I can confirm Ghandi was indead Gianni Morandi's ancestor and had fun weekends eating pizza and playing soccer with Benito Mussolini and the rest of the vatican.
Source: the chicken bones I use to predict the weather, so, trust me bro
Also don't forget how Gandhi helped the British become independent by forcing the colonial Indians to flee through means sheer violence.
Also don't forger his tendancy to start nuclear wars with everybldy
"No matter what they tell you in school, Scooby Doo was a corgi."
No, he was a poodle, get your facts straight!
I thought he was a blue heeler? That’s why bluey is a spiritual successor to Scooby doo
😂😂😂🤣
Now he's a bull dog
@@-Autocons9999
Nah he was German shepard
They could have gone legit one country down from Egypt, and made a documentary about a black nubian queen.
And I'm pretty sure not many people in America know about that queen, so it would be an opportunity to educate people on something that they might otherwise not learn about.
No cultural appropriation points involved.
Not famous enough
@@Eastrffffffffff All the more reason to make the film.
This is a conspiracy theory. They don't care about Nubia because everyone knows that they were black.
They want to push the idea that a shadow cabal of evil elites (usually Jews) have conspired to trick the world into thinking that Ancient Egypt wasn't a black African civilization
The absurd was when the actress called egyptians "racists" for deffending their culture and history lol.
and she is not even related to the drama, they were mad about the misrepresentation of their culture, not because of her, she literally played victim against nothing 😭
We are not n€gr0s
Lets see what will happen when someone makes a documentary about how black people weren't oppressed
Calling them that is just stupid, she ripping off some other country history
As an Egyptian we really don't label people by their skin color that was too stupid of her
When you mess up a show so badly that you get sued by an *entire country* for misinformation due to appropriating their historical figures, you know you've messed up badly.
They want an example of cultural appropriation... This is it...
Apparently in a interview, the lead actress said (if i understood correctly) the country is racist and are so threatened by the skin of the color that they are suing the show
@@subfusck imagine calling the people whose own history and culture you are stealing rascist because they call you out for incorrect information...
I can only imagine that happening to my country's history...
"Nah, Jose Rizal is black or even better... Datu Lapu lapu is black... And you are a rascist Filipino if you think otherwise"
@Mysta's Bottom Lashes
I see, so they're taking a page out of Disney's book then. If someone doesn't like the God awful shitty product movie/show you made, call them racists, sexists, bigots, etc.
There are many in Greece who are calling for the movie to be sued as well. I am one of them. Imagine if they get sued by two countries 😂
As a Filipino American at 5'8", I, with grace and humility, accept the role of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War
You're not fooling anyone rainbow-dash
As a Chinese American woman at 5'0", I, with dignified gratitude, accept the role of Mary, Queen of Scots.
So brave 😍 speak your truth qween
As a Norwegian, my grandmother always told me “no matter what they tell you, Ghandi was a Viking” and I’ve told everyone who will listen that to this day.
Bro is thorfinn 🗿🗿 ngl Gandhi was douchebag
Actually it's kind of fancy to imagine him carrying Battle axe and chanting runic spells.
Where is your Netflix deal? Let’s loop them in
No wonder he is so aggressive in civilization games...
As a South East Asian, my grandmother told me "No matter what they tell you, Leonardo da Vinci was Filipino." Even the Aswang outside my window agreed.
"the Aswang agreed"
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Not aswang wkwkwk
Also my grand mother also told me " No matter how what they tell you, Lapu-Lapu is Norwegian"
@@jasperdecastro5215 I don’t know man I seen the statue when I visited there and it looked just like me and I’m Irish.
What's an aswang?
I love how even despite praising Cleopatra, they're also downgrading her by making her able to fight. Cleopatra is literally one of history's most famous femme fatale, someone who uses her charm, intelligence and power to make others do things for her. She's more like the Lady Macbeth but we can't acknowledge a strong female character without making her a 'girlboss'. Cleopatra was an Egyptian ruler, she didn't need to fight. Strength doesn't have to come from their capability of fighting.
Who needs facts when Jada P smith can just project her truth into history!
Queen nazinga is rolling in her grave at this "documentary"
@@tomaytotamaato Why we asking Jada Pinkett Smith to stay loyal to the source material when she can't even stay loyal to her husband?
But if she wasn't shown as this courageous badass fighter then she wouldn't be a *Yaaaas Queen!* , according to Jada P Smith and the totally factual professor Shelly's grandmother
@@calico_queen8976 Truth
As an Ethnic Chinese, my grandmother used to tell me. ‘My boy, idc what they tell u in school. Albert Einstein was Chinese and his name was actually 爱因斯坦 (Chinese pronunciation)’ Even the Peranakan neighbours of ours agreed
As a Saudi Arabian , my grandmother told me"no matter what they tell you in school , Cerberus is Arabian dog and his original name is saluki"
Calling Cleopatra black is like saying Jada pinkett smith is a loving wife
Or able to take a joke.
Or she doesn’t look like a man
She's actually behind the making of this film. Lol
ayyyyyyyoooo haha
Or she's have a beautifull hair
The irony is, by re-imagining Cleopatra as leader who derived power from physicality instead of diplomacy, the writers are inadvertently reinforcing the stereotype that "masculine" problem-solving supersedes "feminine" negotiation. In other words, they're implying that if you want to be a powerful woman, act like a man.
You're so right. I noticed this too. It's so weird that for a long time cleopatra was portrayed as a hyperfeminine queen who only used her looks where as now she's a more masculine stereotypical fighter. And both perspectives leave out how much of an educated, diplomatic and skilled negotiator she was.
« look ! women can fight too. Look ! » plsss look! »
Would male rulers have even been trained in fighting?
@@pcbassoon3892 Well, in Egypt emperors were considered as gods right, or something close to it, if I remember correctly. I doubt they would make them do anything at all,
Negotiation isn't a feminine trait, but you're still right.
As a Croatian , my Grandparents always told me that Neil Armstrong was a Croatian named Nikola Armstrongović
As a Croatian I must confirm
As an Asian, my grandfather told me” no matter what they tell you in school, President Reagan was Chinese”
As a greek, my grandmother told me. "Never ever forget, and don't listen to what they tell you in school, Genghis Khan was greek. His real name was Giorgos Khanopoulos"
He was German. The proof is that he chose a title "Khan" that is similar to the German word for King (Koenig.) Khan and Koenig are the only 2 words for King with similar sounds. Clearly that means that the Mongols were actually German.
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Nope! Genghis Khan was Nigerian like me according to my grandparents, his real name was Olayinka Olorunnibe 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣since Jada chose madness. In what world is Cleopatra who was Greek/Macedonian black? Who told her and the rest of her merry band of morons that ALL Africans are black? This whole “blackness” insanity is stupid at this point and HIGHLY annoying! We Africans as a WHOLE are tired of it and just want to be left alone and out of the foolishness. We are a diverse continent with people of different skin colors ranging from midnight black to White and every shade in between, we are okay with it and accept each other…leave us alone!
I attest to Chengiz Khan being Greek! Humanity started in Greece. The first Australopithecus came from Greece! ❤
@@hagamapama the great thing of social media is i dont need to waste time learning im just gonna repeat and site this as fact.
As an Irish person, my grandmother always said “no matter what they tell you, pocahontas was actually irish. True story 😢
More accurate than the Disney movie
As a Jewish person, my grandmother always told me” no matter what they tell you in school” Hitler is Jewish
Cleopatra was able to accept her African and Greek heritage. To the Egyptians she was Isis, to the Romans she was Venus. You can be more than one thing
@@David-ox7psYes, she was African as in Northern part of Africa, Egypt. But, being an African doesnt necessarily mean dark skinned. There is a debate whether she was fair with Greek roots or was brown. But, you cannot just make her black. It is just like someone making a biopic of Gandhi some time in future showing him as a pale white Irish person. It is just not possible. The nearest complexion can be dark brown or light brown, ut cannot be pale white. It is just as ridiculous what they are trying to pass as diversity and representation.
Yes she was of Greek origin, but Cleopatra's father was Ptolemy XII, but he was illegitimate, his mother is not recorded. Cleopatra became Pharaoh upon his death. There is no definitive record of her mother or Grandmother, even if some historians say her mother was Cleopatra V. Egyptologist Sally-Ann Ashton who worked on the Netflix shows states, "Cleopatra ruled in Egypt long before the Arab settlement in North Africa", if the maternal side of her family were indigenous women, they would've been African, and this should be reflected in contemporary representations of Cleopatra".
As an Indian, my father always told me "no matter what school tells you, mother Teresa was actually Cleopatra"
As someone who graduated from Burgerking, my teacher once told me:"no matter what they tell you in school, Abraham Lincoln was a double cheeseburger"
making a movie about black historical figures: ❌
blackwashing any other historical figures of other races: ✅
So true. It's embarrassing that Netflix don't deem African history worthy enough of the screen. If I were African I sure would be mad that Netflix can't look to the other side of the world and make a show about great and ancient African leaders, but instead plug in other races to make them feel 'included'. Really they are just racist.
Really tells you how low they think about black people...
I loved viking sequel, however again black people in north was slaves only, not village leaders. I mean I am not racist, but I hate this kind of stuff... It's like you can't have movie where 2 main characters aren't gays (with full scene of kissing which is disturbing for me a bit). And of corse the black character which is missplaced. Like imagine European medival story with half of black population... I mean I am sick of it. I just hope I am not alone and this may finally stop someday.
*I am not racist, or agains't gays or something. I just don't like to watch 2 guys making out...
It's almost like they don't have any significant history
As a Russian, my grandmother always said "No matter what they tell you, Abraham Lincoln was a slav"
As an American, my grandmother always said, "No matter what they tell you, Jesus was from Michigan"
As a fish, my grandmother always said, ''No matter what they tell you, Hitler was Japanese"
Abraham Lincoln: I said free the Slav not the slaves!!!! Bruh!
Это сарказм?
@@user-bj7cp6hm3q Да, конечно
As an Indonesian, my gramps told me "No matter what they tell you in school, Hitler died in Garut"
As an Indonesian, my grandfather told me "No matter what they tell you in school, Joseph Stalin was an Indonesian activist who helped the youth in our struggle of independence." Even the Kuntilanak standing outside my window agreed.
As a Turk, my history teacher repeatedly told me “No matter what they tell you, always remember that Native Americans were Turkish.” His words stuck with me to this day.
The settlers would be fcked if this was true 😅
they really be telling that
Nah, you were busy genociding people instead of being the ones genocided
This may be unrelated, but one time I saw an Indian guy claiming that mesoamerican and Asian fighting styles where invented by Hindus...
aga be
It's ironic how some showrunners can blatantly disregard a nation's heritage and then dismiss their rightful backlash. How can they be so blind to the cultural intricacies woven into a society? It never ceases to amaze me.
all these shit happened because y'all let mfs say "iTs oK as loNg as iT doEsnt huRt anyOne😖" "jUst say yoUr racIst hun💅✨" "wHy doEs sKin colOr bother you so mUch🥺" or whatever tf LMAO. Y'all should've shut them up from the start🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
it almost feels like they _want_ to divide people and cause discord between races
Ego, pride, political agenda, you name it
They can be blind because they think they can get away with calling Egyptians 'white supremacists' over the backlash they're getting. They are used to being able to 'cancel' whoever they like and get their apoligies because of the color of their skin. This time around they weren't counting on an entire nation not giving a sh!t and valuing the truth over their feelings. I mean, we're talking about the bunch who thinks being on time, 2+2=4, meritocracy and valuing accuracy are all products of white supremacy.
Some people have never had their shit kicked
As a white, my grandparents always told me "no matter what they teach you in school, MLK was a white woman"
Who lived in Australia during the dinosaur age
As a french canadian, my grandmother always told me: "No matter what they tell you in school, Mao was Québecois and he drank maple sirup while dancing la rigaudon"
As a north African ( Moroccan) , I recall my father telling me " don't listen to what they tell you in school, Abraham Lincoln was Moroccan , and his real name was Assou ou-Baslam"
Or simply brahim "allez si brahim "😂😂😂
Oh, youre not north African
You're black
North Africans don't exist
Morocco mentioned! 🎉🎉🎉
YOU'RE WHITE
As soon as i knew that Jada Pinkett Smith was responsible of this, it all made sense 😂😂
💯
That woman will do anything to stay in the public eye. Nothing and no one is safe from her attention seeking ways.
She's as faithful to history as she is her husband
@@SpareSomeChange8080damn😂
@@kathyharris1627 And the worst part - she's fully aware of it and she is LOVING the attention she gets from it, no matter what side its on
I look forward to Netflix's next biopic depicting Winston Churchill as an Aztec High Priest
As a white/asian half breed, my mother told me, "I don't care what they taught you in school, Cleopatra was half Japanese".
"Plutarque lived 150 years after Cleopatra died, he doesn't know"
But this woman, who lives almost 2 millienia later does ? Amazing statement. True woman of science there.
0 coments ? How ?
@@aureliontroll2341 a perfect comment doesn't need anything
MY EXACT THOUGHT AT THE END "THEN HOW DO YOU KNOW???????"
That woman is 500 years old and her grandma lived 2100 years ago, she used to be the royal ass wiper of Cleopatra. She definitely saw that black booty with her own eyes unlike Plutarch
But...but her grandmother know! U can't avoid the trust, that her grandmother told that.
The documentary actually exceeded my expectations... I mean 3% rating?
Thats literally 3x better than what it deserves!
It had a 1% rating at the time numbers were released and 11% from 10 something critics. Guess it climbed up a bit by then
no
@@nsgcommando2861 imagine making a so terrible show that you get simps to give high votes, not even Velma or DragonBall Evolution fked up this bad
But 3 times 0 is still 0
@@pandamaster4813 Unfortunately 1% is lowest possible rating a show can get on rotten :/
I was a Regular Canadian Lad Viewer, until Wanda vision and No way home, after that I stopped getting recommended his videos, so I thought algorithm understood my Criticisms about the rest of Marvel projects that came out after that. This vid of Lad got recommended today , clicked and watched it in one go , liked it and went to his channel to look for his opinion about the last projects of MCU, to my absolute surprise, I found out He hasn't made a single video on those flop shows and movies. THANK YOU CANADIAN LAD. I love you for this.
As a scot, my father told me "no matter what they tell you in school, there were dragons when I was a boy"
The purpose of the 'documentary' wasn't to properly portray Cleopatra, but to simply use Cleopatra as a screen to project their own racial power fantasy. Demoting such an incredibly complex and powerful female figure into your typical Mary Sue simply reveals Jada's lack of skill and talent in production.
Well said. You could write an essay on this.
That makes this entire show so embarrassing, ugh “racial power fantasy.” There’s nothing more pathetic than virtue signaling a circle jerk wish fulfillment show
It's called Marxism
@@ninor_7398 nope, it's racial elitism.
@@havyn88 which is apart of Marxism... Divide the races through the idea of racial superiority and demoralise them. Hitler spoke about how it was happening in the United states and how if it kept happening there will be only chaos and he was right
OMFG, that old lady was a professor?! That's freaking hilarious. What does she even teach? Grandma's fake tales? This is gold. lol
Gotta love the finishing quote. About a person living 150 after Cleopatra dying not being able to know.
Coming from a person knowing stuff for sure after over at least ten times that time period
The irony is that the professor's grandma was most likely illiterate given the age of the professor.
She knew her grandmother is wrong. This is Professor Shelley Haley. She wrote the following in 1993:
"Yet, throughout my college and graduate school experience, buried deep in the recesses of my mind was the voice of my grandmother, Ethel Clemons Haley, saying, “Remember, no matter what you learn in school, Cleopatra was black.” Now where did she get an idea like that? Schooled only as far as the seventh grade, never having learned any foreign language, just a domestic servant, a cook, she obviously had no knowledge about Cleopatra or classics or anything else intellectual . So I, the great teacher, used to tell her about the Ptolemies and how they were Greek and how Cleopatra was a Ptolemy and so she was Greek.
At one point I even showed her the genealogical tables of the Cambridge Ancient History. “See,” I said, “Cleopatra was Greek!” ” "
@@Chemicalkinetics Then why is she saying the exact opposite in the documentary? or was that just to drum up controversy and views?
@@rumblefish9 Well, I think on a factual level, she knows Cleaopatra is probably not Black, but at a social justice and family loyalty, I think she feels she has to believe it. You can look up her writings. For example, she later wrote "Why didn’t all the students see the evidence as I did? What did they know that I didn’t? In buying the lie, had I sold out my race?"
"I discovered that my Black students and indeed my grandmother read her on a different level. For them and for me, although I suppressed her, Cleopatra was the lost and found window where we could “claim an identity they taught us to despise”
"tension between my yearning to fit in among classicists and my identity politics."
The way I read what she wrote... she wasn't taking about how historically Cleaopatra can be Greek or Cleaopatra can be Black". She wasn't debating about two historical possibility. She was debating between what is more important? (A) Going with the limited historical evidence that Cleaopatra is Greek and/or Middleeastern" or (B) be loyal to my race and grandmother and bring hope to other black students.
The folllowing paragraph is even more clear. Shelley Haley does the following equation. Black Americans are often oppressed. Cleaopatra and Egyptian people is tragic and oppressed person. So we now claim her as Blacks. See, it is an "emotional" equal sign, not a scientific one. Read:
"In the Black oral tradition, Cleopatra becomes a symbolic construction voicing our Black African heritage so long suppressed by racism and the ideology of
miscegenation . When we say, in general, that the ancient Egyptians were Black and, more specifically, that Cleopatra was Black, we claim them as part of a
culture and history that has known oppression and triumph, exploitation and survival. Cleopatra reacted to the phenomena of oppression and exploitation as a Black woman would . Hence we embrace her as sister; she is Black"
0:06 Seeing the Canadian Lad, who's always so kind and positive, say that was GOLD
As a German, my grandmother always said: "I don't care what they tell you in school, Adolf Hitler is black and he still lives in Namibia under the name of Adolf Hitler Uunona"
As an Egyptian, I feel hugely disappointed and offended for trying to decimate my people's nature, and especially for their double standards, imagine making a documentary about George Floyd and making him white, there'd be a riot, sadly, Egypt is currently in a shit position to defend itself because of politics...
Perfectly said.
@DrkAsDeath Philippines has joined the chat.
Worse thing about it, there where black phararos, but the one they chose was mix between greek and persian, if they had done there research they would have found other to make a series of
@@koenwaalde yes the 25th dynasty they were Nubians and literally known as the black pharaohs or a better idea make the documentary about ancient Nubia they were actual black people and their kingdom was not less cooler than ancient Egypt and they shared alot of history and culture together
@@koenwaaldeStill why does American guilt syndrome has to be projected on someone's history, most black Americans came from West Africa. The Nubians are modern day Sudan and look totally different.
As an Egyptian, what bothers me is that they think we are racists who don’t like blacks to resemble Egypt while in Egypt you’d hardly find an actual racist. We don’t hate any race and we can’t give up our history
Netflix and Afrocentricity create a cultural invasion of the future. They say Cleopatra is black. People get angry with her, so they come back and say, sorry, Cleopatra is white, but the families before Cleopatra were of the black race, so we accept this in the future.
As an Egyptian, I am very sad about what is happening now because racism and aggression are being practiced against us
Because they call the Egyptians now that they are Arab invaders
I'd like to give you a little bit of history, you ignoramuses.
The Arabs trace their origins to an Egyptian mother named Hajar. Now we say that Egypt is the mother of the Arabs and the mother of the world.
So don't come now and call us invaders
All Africans know that each country has its own culture, so the ignorant person who has no history claims that the Egyptian civilization belongs to him.
An entire people is now being stripped of its identity
Is it possible to say that all the peoples of Asia are of Chinese origin?
You can say that the Latino is of Mexican race
Only certain Americans want you to give up your history.
@@rodneymarsden3003 There are foriegn powers who seek the same.
It's not just some Americans.
Maybe the true racists are just the ones that keep giving any race any more power than they deserve, we should all just treat eachother normally, not make one race a king compared to the others
Does matter what you all say or think. History is what we say it is. Best thing about being an American. It's our way or the highway. Look up Dexter cassey. He is a direct descendant of Ramsee III and guess what color he is. He even looks like the Bust
Can't wait for Ryan Gosling to play Martin Luther King
Or for Michael B. Jordan to play Dharmer
Michael J. White should play Epstein
As a French, my grand mother always told me "I don't care what they teach you in school, Shaka Zulu was French and I went in school with him. His birth name was Arnaud Zouloud."
I burst out laughing at the end there
She said a Roman historian didn't know anything but her grandmother somehow knew like what the hell
Plutarch was a Greek philosopher.
By her "logic", as she lives over 2000 years after Cleopatra she knows nothing lmao, oh wait it is true she knows nothing LMAO
That grandma mush have live for centuries in the roman time for knowing roman better then the roman themself
That just goes to show how arrogantly obnoxious that woman is
absolutely disgraceful on how she even got her role in the production when the first thing she says in the interview was basically telling everyone "who cares about history, im gonna pretend it never existed and make my own version of a person that actually existed"
Plutarch died 150 years after Cleopatra died, but he was born about 80 years after she died, so about three generations later.
As someone half Lebanese and half Syrian, I'm happy that they portrayed the Syrian guy training Cleopatra accurately and didn't make him black 😂
As an Egyptian we envy you for the privilege of being portrayed correctly😂
Cleopatra was a warrior?
An orgy warrior
@@giacobbeperales5926 Nah she was a SISTAHHHHH
What is half Lebanese and half Syrian, I mean are they TWO DIFFERENT RACES, or just two different ethnicities. What about someone who is Half Nigerian and Half Ghanaian, or Half Kenyan and Half Tanzanian ha ha. Are there any RACIAL differences..
As a student, my teacher always told me Hitler was Jewish and kinda crazy, my 22 year old tortoise Titler agreed with him
And the truth at last:
Back in the 60s BC (a turbulent era with lots of hallucinogenics as all know) when Cleopatra was a child, her grandfather said to her: *_"Cleo,_*_ I dont care what they say in school, Tutankhamun was Greek."_
Source: _WeakyPedia_
As an Asian, my parents told me "No matter what they tell you in school, Albert Einstein was a Mongolian"
And of course Jenkins khan was a great Greek hero 😂😂
@@user-hk4fo8zr6h My man said Jenkins Khan
As a German I can confirm that.
What an exception!
😂😂😂😂😂
She literally believed her grandmother with 0 knowledge 💀
The irony is that her grandmother was most likely illiterate given the age of this woman.
And she is a "psychic" bro!
It's even funnier considering her last words "who lived 150 years after she died, he doesn't know" she literally believed her grandmother and she lived idk 2500 years after her death? 😅
The fact is that she knows her grandmother is wrong. She wrote about this before. "So I, the great teacher, used to tell her (her grandmother) about the Ptolemies and how they were Greek and how Cleopatra was a Ptolemy and so she was Greek."
And the fact that her grandmother probably didnt even say that.
It's so annoying how media always makes women strong by making them fight. Cleopatra didn't need to fight, she was extremely smart and charismatic. She didn't need a sword when she could out-wit literally anyone she met.
As a South African my grandmother always said "no matter what the school tells you Jan Van Riebeeck was actually a Greek man who fought for the right for liberation for black slaves"
Imagine having to remove all the evidence that portrays the actual Cleopatra, including the coins, just so your narrative can seem genuine and to create a fictional empowerment. Personally, as an Egyptian, I've known since I was a kid that Cleopatra is Greek, and we were taught that she's Greek. None of us have ever tried to claim otherwise because facts are more important than opinions. But somehow, now we're literally living in an era when documentaries are based on someone's grandmother and her bedtime stories.
Netflix and Afrocentricity create a cultural invasion of the future. They say Cleopatra is black. People get angry with her, so they come back and say, sorry, Cleopatra is white, but the families before Cleopatra were of the black race, so we accept this in the future.
As an Egyptian, I am very sad about what is happening now because racism and aggression are being practiced against us
Because they call the Egyptians now that they are Arab invaders
I'd like to give you a little bit of history, you ignoramuses.
The Arabs trace their origins to an Egyptian mother named Hajar. Now we say that Egypt is the mother of the Arabs and the mother of the world.
So don't come now and call us invaders
All Africans know that each country has its own culture, so the ignorant person who has no history claims that the Egyptian civilization belongs to him.
An entire people is now being stripped of its identity
Is it possible to say that all the peoples of Asia are of Chinese origin?
You can say that the Latino is of Mexican race
Blackwashing is literally racism...but it's all for empowerment right, rewriting history to paint it as factual... 2023 surely is one hell of a year.
Black people in the west are taught that they are victims from an early age and have developed an inferiority complex. Many hate themselves and have developed a counter-culture to their so called 'oppressors', white people. Media and public schools have reinforced this and its why they require these patronizing insults in order to feel better about themselves.
@Deena….true. Some dumb old lady & her dumb grandmother is believed over Egyptian historians & ancient coins & other artifacts depicting Cleopatra. . The THIRST to be Egyptian when they are not & NOW claiming Cleopatra & the pyramids is embarrassing! as well as buffoonery. 🤣
لا فض فوكِ 👏
So the biggest thing we learned from this, is that Jada likes to lie to her daughter. Mother of the Year!
World already knew Jada was a sociopath long ago, this just cements it
and her son, dont forget about the "entangelment" 🤣
She's had a lot of practice with her husband.
@@lightyagami1752 And without her husband
@@alejandrasanchez3022 Jada lies to her husband, but not with him. Lol.
You have earned my respect. Just subscribed
Imagine if in history books there was a line saying "because my grandmother told so"
This is outrageous my own grandmother told me Cleopatra was Mexican and had a Guadalupana tattoo on her chest!
Wrong she was Dominican why she always play Merengue, it was so loud Rome couldn’t get good rest causing a famine, which is why Augustus travel to Egypt to arrest Cleopatra.
Nah she was 100% chinese. As an asian girl, I know my gong gong told me 😭 SHE WAS TOTALLY CHINESE BECAUSE SHE ATE RICE AND THEREFORE SHE WAS CHINESE!1!!!!!1!!
Nah she was Indian and ate butter chicken for lunch and rode a hero honda
Naaww cuz my gramma told me Cleopatra was half filipino and half japanese and she would eat sushi with adobo!! 😡😡😡😡
you’re wrong…she’s not mexican, she was actually half canadian half icelandic cus she went to cold places like bro get ur facts right
You saved me 4 hours of watching time and 8 hours of drinking trying to forget what I just watched.
12 hours to spend for extra sleep, you're so lucky
As a Russian, my grandfather told me "No Matter what they tell you in CNN, Crimea is Russia"
Never forget, that, Sun Tzu was Korean
They didn't talk about her languages? That's a HUGE part of why she was a good ruler. She could actually talk with people instead of relying on the stilted communication of translators. Ughh thats so frustrating. How could you ignore that?
My mom is a British with Egyptian parents, when I told one of my friend about that, he seriously ask me "then why aren't you black?'' I was totally confused and ask "why should I be black?" then he said "Didn't you said your mom has Egyptian parents? Egypt is in Africa, then your mom must be black". I was just thankful, only one person in my life ever ask me those question, but when I saw Netflix made documentary about Black Cleopatra, I was thinking "Did that friend of mine working at Netflix now?"
dear God!! The stupidity in the finest....
as an Egyptian, much live for you and your content ❤😍
Mad respect to this lad for sparing our collective sanity while sacrificing his
Drag queens will rule the world one day
@@SkriLLex22525 that would be epic
@@Val99. yaaas queen
@@SkriLLex22525no they don’t. They are mentally unstable
My professional opinion as a Greek: We don't refer to people as "black" and "white" here (and in most of Europe as i know). We refer to people based on their ethnicity (Greek, German, Egyptian, Ethiopian...) Because in most countries the colour of people's skin varies and also culture changes by the country and not by colour
Exactly what annoys me about Americans, everything needs to be black or white.
We usually say Greeks,Macedonians,Germans,Arabs,Blacks,the Chinese(SE Asians),Americans,Indians (S Asians).
So we refer to Europeans based on ethnicity and others more vaguely based on their skin colour (blacks for Sub-saharan africans)or the most known country of the region they come from.
YESSSS! YESSSS! Ethnicity! Not race! Factually correct is saying ethnicity, because race only has homo sapiens in it!
Have my upvote! You made my day
@@basedness5205why did you put greek and macedonian as a different category... Like macedonia is greek
@@degenerate-kun8562 I was giving an example.
When a Canadian knows better about Egyptian history than a so-called historian 😂
Don't worry most of the world agreed that this is bullshit. Except for certain brainwashed people who has been fed the idea that Egyptians are Sub-Saharan African.
The weirdest Canadian accent I've ever heard. And we don't refer to each other as lads. That's a British thing..
@@sueyourself5413 are you serious right now? where do you live in canada that you dont hear an array of different accents? i hear 100 different accents every day living in Canada, whats the issue???
@@sueyourself5413 imagine not knowing they’re different accents in the same country 🫣
@@sueyourself5413 You do know canada is a pretty big country with a lot of people right? Even with all the unpopulated wilderness.
I'm Egyptian and I swear everyone I know was SO HAPPY watching Moon Knight. Even my dad who doesn't speak English or watch foreign stuff was so mind blown by the cultural representation when I showed him some snippets.
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How's his reaction to this one? :)
I'm not Egyptian i'm black (not the same thing Netflix) but i have a respect and fascination for Egyptian culture. Moon Knight was fantastic and i also feel that assassin's creed origins did a good job at protraying Cleopatra and egyptian culture.
My grandmother once told me " no matter what they tell you at school, Mohmmad Ali was Japanese"
As a Hispanic, my father told me "No matter what they tell you King Tut was Salvadorian" His words are stuck to me to this day
As an Indian, my father told me "No matter what they tell you, Jeff Bezos or his real name jeffery bezeshwar was an Indian who spoke Kannada, I believe it to this day
Alright now shut up and stop stealing other's jokes
No matter what they tell ya, mate. But Ben Kingsley was originally a Gujarati
fax
@@nitheshhariharan6538ok he was Gujarati
yes, that is correct.
As a Dane my grandmother once told me "No matter what they tell you, Mahatama Ghandi was a Danish warrior who singlehandedly held the Englishmen at bay through sheer rage and bloodlust"
I mean if you're going off the ghandi in civ...you're not too far off with the last part
As an indian my father had told " no matter what school tells you. Tom cruise was brown"
It made my friend whom was kinda possessed with Egypt, it’s ancient civilisations and mythology to rage for at least 2 weeks
The blackwashing and bending of the story would be totally fine if this was fiction. You want representation, all the luck to you. But this is a documentary. It's supposed to give you the facts as they are, not bend and stretch the story to fit your own personal feelings, and they're not meant to spread misinformation. This documentary was not made in the name of Egyptian history. It was made as propaganda for social-political messaging. Kudos to Canadian Lad for sitting through it and giving us ACTUAL facts
"b-b-but mah black historee" (note: I have no problem with black people getting represented by stuff, but this ain't for them)
The fictional "documentary" gets an F-. You learn nothing from this.
I love the fake posters of stuff like Obama: Ryan Gosling
Martin Luther King: Mel Gibson
That popped up because of this st*pid stuff.
And people bring up "but ancient one is white, ras al gul was white, tonto from lone ranger was white" people had a problem with that then too also, that's all fiction
@@syvulpie and this from a g g g amer... ooooh me wyht hystrie😢 'I have no problem with black people' like you think you own us
imo even if it was fiction, race swapping is still just as unacceptable. It doesn't matter from which race to which race they're swapping, if they swap a character's race that imo is one of the worst possible things an adaptation can do to the source material, fiction or not.
Taking familiar comic books characters as examples;
Dc comic's bruce wayne is white. An adaption where he's a black or asian is simply wrong and is an insult to the source material.
marvel comic t'challa is black. An adaption where he's a white or asian is wrong and is an insult to the source material.
Imagine making a marvel movie called "White Panther" Where tchalla is a white American. Would you imagine that all these people screaming and crying "so what if ariel is black? what if cleopatra is black? why do you care?" would let it slide and move on? ofc not.
Assassin's Creed: Origins handles Cleopatra better than a documentary dedicated to Cleopatra herself.
Origins actually handles it super well. I like how it shows the cultural differences between Bayek of Siwa, from the South of Egypt, who was rightfully portrayed as a Black Egyptian, considering the part of the country he hailed from and the Greeks that resided in the northern cities like Alexandria.
Bro istg these games portray shit absolutely brilliantly, many times I have watched movies and shows completely misrepresent a culture or religion and then these masterpiece game studios pull it off like they were there when it happened
Damn now that you mention it I’m tempted to go back and actually finish that game 😅
@@NeonWafflez707It’s a beautiful game. Side content is ass tho but that’s every Ubisoft game😂
@@mzple yeah assassin's creed origins was way better than any other historical game
Kudos for not saying Jada's in charge of this at the beginning.
From Middle English Cleopatra, from Ancient Greek Κλεοπάτρα (Kleopátra), meaning "glory of her father", from κλέος (kléos, “glory”) + πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).
This documentary is actually beneficial. It made the whole world learn about about Greek and Egyptian history just to hate on it
If lazy westerners who watch it will actually try to find out and not just simply assume it’s true, like the tv show Roots.
That is a nice way to see about the situation
اتفق معك
وشكرا للجميع للدافع عنا
Ironic!
Nobody showed me how to build pyramids
Gotta love it when Netflix cancels the good shows but keeps producing slop like this.
As an Egyptian, I feel offended.... but as a European, I'm kind of proud at the audacity it took to shamelessly appropriate one of the most famous people that ever lived....
"Cleopatra wasn't the type to give up, she was a fighter!" - Cleopatra literally self terminated : The ultimate giving up
I wouldn’t say she gave up. She just chose to go out on her own terms instead of being paraded around Rome.
I guess you can say, they were talking out of their Asp. 😎
@@davidmaka6742 she has no other choice but to give up.... so she took her own live.... that's still give up just the least embarrassing one
@@ce4879 OH MNY GODD BRO!!! STOPP
In Indian ancient society, It was better to commit suicide than to cling on to life and be a slave to the conquerors, or running away. So , according to us , Cleopatra was a fighter till death. Every culture has a different definition of giving up and fighting.
This is what happen when you tell people their feelings are sacred
Thank you for saving my time❤
as a greek, my mother used to tell me "no matter what they tell you in school,Cleopatra was greek" . wait a momen-
Lol
you know as far as ive heard she had Greek blood.
She was greek and persian
So they got it so wrong on a basic level
My grandma always told me, "I don't care what they tell you in school, Martin Luther King Jr was white."
So stunning and brave.
He was Scandinavian to be precise
@@yasininn76 nah, clearly he was German
@@CrytoZ_ButCool nah, not white enough
He looked just like Ryan Gosling!
It's documentary'ing time
As an Austrian my Father told me "No matter what they tell you in School, Arnold Schwarzenegger is actually a Princess."
I was watching this 'documentary' thinking who would give a historical figure this much of a a hack job, but the moment I heard "Jada Pinkett Smith", everything automatically made sense. Jada Pinkett Smith herself is a running joke so I'm not surprised she made Cleopatra into one.
I don't think I've ever heard the Canadian Lad swear, and within the first 3 seconds he does. That was quite a twist.
I remember the first time I heard him swear was when he first did a breakdown on Loki Episode 1 and talked about the stones being used as paperweights
@@declanhugors yes same
Risking that demonization too lol
😂 it was so sudden.
It was in "stop making 2 hour movies"
The video was about antman
As a Hispanic my parents told me “ No matter what anyone tells you, Genghis Khan was a Spaniard”. I’ll never forget that.
My head lice said that too
Yeah it got revealed in my dream too
As a Mongolian, we didn't care much about movies where Khan was played by Japanese, Russian and even Chinese actors. But African actor is off-limit not because they are true earthlings but they suck at it.
"Plutarch who lived 150 years after Cleopatra died, he doesn't know" but her grandma who lived 2000 years after Cleopatra, she knows...
6:16...I found that clip of Cleopatra giving a 'five' to her sword instructor quite hilarious. I mean, modern day mannerisms in ancient Egypt...like WTF guys!!? 😆😄😅
well if cleopatra was black, i feel like they missed an opportunity to have her dap up the instructer LMFAO
The left hand too. Historically the left hand was never touched because it was usually covered in poop
@@theraVen27 I don't know if I want to believe it, but they were so out of mind in middle ages that it doesn't surprise me it was even worse thousands years earlier
@@nebullae HAHAHA...totally! 🙌
I think I remember hearing "Jesus Christ" in a movie that took place before he was born...got some mileage out of that one
It’s one thing to change a fictional characters race (even though it still comes off as woke pandering). But changing a historical persons race, and then blatantly lying about their story to fit some sjw narrative, is a real slap in the face. There are so many amazing figures in black history they can make documentaries on. And they wouldn’t even need to twist their story or change anything to force some diversity agenda. If you want to highlight black history, there are so many places to look.
It's not even sjw, it's just ego. They think their story is so good, they don't have to do anything to appeal to anyone but themselves. Same thing with Witcher. Just a bunch of inexperienced upstarts being given all this power with no proof they actually have any ability whatsoever. I swear these people are hired because they don't want to pay people anything to make actually good content.
@@OryxAU i hope Netflix loses because there needs to be a line.
Literally, Shaka zulu who beat the british time and again with inferior weapons, Mansa Musa, who was so rich he crashed the gold market, or menelik the second who fought off the italians in the Italo Ethiopian war
They've squandered that opportunity when they started down this path.
If they put out a true story, no one would believe it anymore and it would get grouped with the trash that came before.
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My dad told me when i was young: "There's to much false statements around our heritage we're actually from mars, but people will just never accept it" He was right.
"I remember my grandmother saying to me; 'I don't care what they tell you in school: Cleopatra was Black.'"
And I remember _my_ grandmother saying to me: "Look!! Jesus is on my grilled cheese sandwich!!"
"There are tons of stories!" Cleopatra isn't a story, she was a real living human, she's HISTORY, not just STORY.
Edit: Comment thread making me giggle +1
Maybe she want "SHESTORY" not "HISTORY".
you forgot one thing, slavery never happened in the USA, because nobody is a slave in the USA right now...
@@zyna51 are you really this dumb? how did you miss the HERSTORY pun?
@@zyna51 "HERSTORY*"
@@zyna51 maybe "THEYSTORY" or "THEIRSTORY"... hahaahaha