Bust of Cleopatra, made during her lifetime It’s ironic that in this time of hand-wringing over “cultural appropriation,” where a white person may be criticized for wearing cornrow braids or portraying a non-white TV character, we hear indignant insistence that Egypt’s most famous Greek queen, Cleopatra, was black. Of course, given that there’s also a musical ( Hamilton ) portraying the Founding Fathers as non-white and claims that even some British kings were black, this fancy is not surprising.
But how did the idea originate? Is it merely a function of some people’s misconception that the ancient Egyptians were black? Well, one writer theorizes that there could be another source for the idea: a late 19th-century erotic French novel.
At American Thinker , George M. Hollenback introduces the story . “In the trailer for the disastrous Netflix documentary Queen Cleopatra , classics professor Shelley Haley states, ‘I remember my grandmother saying […]
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