Whatever race she was, she was above all, one of the most powerful women in the world’s history! Clearly. Are you suggesting there were no black actresses who could have played Cleopatra just as good as a white person or even better? Rogerscalled "World's Great Men of Color." BUT WHEN IT COMES TO PHARAOHS KINGS AND QUEENS THEY GOT TO BE WHITE WOW. The whole idea is based on wild supposition and misinformation. The founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty was one of Alexander the Great’s generals. @Mb, @author and all you other Macedonian Greek, Egyptian =non-African black blood idiots……….. you’re white huh. White peoples own ignorance makes it easy to decipher their bs. Most of all though, It’s disturbing; this cultural whitewashing (the irony, it burns) by American Afrocentric revisionists is especially pernicious since many of these revisionists are out‐and‐out racists with actual sway in academia. Even the Greeks were a darker skin white people, just look at Greeks today, they are more olive skinned than pale skinned. Other races (mainly white Europeans) are always saying it doesn’t matter what race Egyptians are biblical people were. Black people, which I consider myself to be by the way, are starved for role models. In that case, people would say that it is historically inaccurate. They invaded Egypt from Greece. More than a few Ptolemaic queens, including Kleopatra VII, are designated Female Horus on the extant monuments. As though it would taint their worth or make their achievements less important. It will be interesting to see if Gadot will continue with her decision of essaying the role of Cleopatra or step aside and give a chance to an actress from the appropriate ethnic background. I also viewed the documentary called Cleopatra! Egypt is one of the advanced civilization in human history to teach many things all of us. Even the American history and it’s characters have been distorted and it’s not as old as Epypt and Cleopatra. The peoples there are Slavic not Hellenic. The marble head in the Vatican is one of three sculptures generally, though not universally, accepted by scholars to be depictions of Cleopatra. In fact two of her ancestors married their sisters, thus reinforcing the Macedonian ethnicity. Please watch the documentary “Hidden Colors” and you will understand why it is important to so many to clarify the lineage of great historical figures. It is not because people care about color why people propose different theories about Cleopatra’s mixture of cultures… it is because they care about her, it is in deed her intelligence, her charisma, her bravery and her gifts to the world why we remember her… and want to be her. We also know that he was white, member of the white segregationist elite and of Dutch descent. Adding to that Greek people came from Africa to thru migration! But it’s been proven over and over again that the Egyptians were African(Black) scientifically, biblically and historically. I learned that I had to go back to the ancient sources which in this case are the histories written by Plutarch, Dio Cassius, Strabo and others. The black girl in the video below has two black parents. I feel that her race is important to a certain degree because I come from a culture (Black American) whose historical importance has been methodically denied and erased. All people need to know what role their ancestors played in history. Summary: Cleopatra Mwansa's birthday is 01/21/1983 and is 37 years old. I feel sorry for Dr. Roller because he’s written one of the very best biographies of Kleopatra VII that I’ve Just as there are differing shades and features across Europe (as you mentioned not every European is the quintessential English or Scandinavian, as often portrayed), across Asia, across the Americas. She reigned for 21 years, from 51 BC to 30 BC. Her … … She wrote, “Certainly not for any black African blood”. He also recalls him participating in the Olympic games- something you had to be Greek to do. Last, what race was Marilyn Monroe? Or subscribe to articles in the subject area by email or RSS, […] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Teresa Rolfe Kravtin, Lauren. And she was EBONY and TAN in color. She was clearly a skilled linguist, being able to speak 8 or 9 other languages beside — including Hebrew, Troglodytic, and “Ethiopian”. Also, it’s not racial profiling if the person in question is white. In 100 years they’ll claim Martin Luther King Jr. was white and that blacks enslaved them! That was a very astute analysis of you. It seems to me that most black people want Cleopatra to be black, and most white people want her to be white, I am a white male in my mid sixties, and I would be happy to find out that Queen Cleopatra the 7th was black. Overall, I find your information on Cleopatra’s heritage very useful and detailed, but your tone often comes across as rude and very mocking of people with a lesser understanding of Egyptian and Greek connections, which is why, I suspect, so many people reading this article have had an issue with your information. IN FACT ONE OF THE KINGS THAT WAS THERE FOR JESUS BIRTH WAS BLACK. You could do to research racism, or more, “how to not be racist.”. This does not make any sence: it is Macedonian or greek? ask any copt (modern descendents of egyptians) if they are black and you will get your butt kicked. Stacy Schiff’s novelistic biography has a good deal of speculation in it. With Cleopatra’s death, Egypt became part of the Roman Empire. If race didn’t mean anything then why does people of color get there history wiped over and there accomplishments overshadowed by white people and they get all the credit and I’m not jealous but it seems that when something great happened we were depicted as village roomers! Ramses e1b1a. Let me just touch on the first briefly, because it seems most people know that yes, it matters in many different ways, especially with the extensive white-washing of history to take away our accomplishments. Well-educated and clever, Cleopatra could speak various languages and served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies. In the entire 300-year old Ptolemaic dynasty, Cleopatra was the only Pharaoh who could speak Egyptian. Seems like the same argument arises on the “race” of Jesus (being Black African). Α- Φρίκη = a (deprivative) + freak (extreme cold) = the place without cold. However, modern day man originated in Africa and many of us have a small percentage neanderthal DNA. Cleopatra was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and the language of the Ptolemaic Pharaohs was Greek, not Egyptian. Throughout the world, in ever age, it is a human instinct, especially in scenes of some majesty or beauty, heroism to create art that you can identify with, if you look at an image of the Madonna throughout different cultures, be it Egyptian Coptic art, Greek Orthodox, the Renaissance movement or an African-American church, the main figure they want to convey usually is representative of their own culture. Whitewashing is a longstanding psychological tool used to support white supremacy; protect the ignorance of the fragile white ego and hide the truth from the true spiritual and earthly Royalty of black people. So many more… You have to realize the people with the power had control.. To put out the images that wanted to.. Whenever Athens had no use for the Macedonians, she considered them as barbarous as other tribal people north of Thessaly. You can almost see the resemblance in modern Berbers The “black” label is tossed and it is expected that reasonable people should just stand back and accept the afrocentrist’s unintelligent thinking system. So until the time of Cleopatra’s great-grandfather, the ethnic makeup of the dynasty was still pure Macedonian Greek. Often there are stories of Transgender actors being turned down to play Transgender characters, which is highly unfair, as they are unable to thus share their own stories, nevermind the fact they ARE transgender. This is a historian writing this although Egypt is in Africa and was ruled for thousands of years by those with “black African blood”. So Cleopatra’s mother may have been Egyptian, but she probably also had some Macedonian background. Cleopatra’s full name was Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator. [77] As noted by Donald R. Dudley, Cleopatra and her family were "the successor[s] to the native Pharaohs, exploiting through a highly organized bureaucracy the great natural resources of the Nile Valley. Cleopatra through the ages The vast majority of Egypt’s many hundreds of queens, although famed throughout their own land, were more or less unknown in the outside world. FYRoM is Paeonia not Macedonia. Macedonians were Hellenes and the spoke Hellenic, wrote Hellenic, had Hellenic names, spread the Hellenic culture etc. Prejudice is universal, and knows no color, creed, religion or body type. Thousands of years of dynastic rule ended with her. 44–45, 50). So if a Caucasian say it is so then let it be that and when all else fail they fall on “why does race matter.” If any one would to see another view on this matter check out this website http://www.lisapoyakama.org. Illustration about Egyptian silhouette icon. The Egyptians identified as brown. Modern day Egyptians do not consider themselves black because there is no such thing. But what about the mothers? This makes sense if they were part of her ancestral family. It matters on every single news report of a violent crime that reports 2 black males are wanted. They were both Mediterranean and I’m sure they were a lot closer to each other in DNA than they were to an Egyptian. Rogers called "World's Great Men of Color. Turkocentrists fight to have Trojan history re-labelled Turan history. The tone of this article is exceedingly condescending, and I take issue with much of what was written. The Romans would have had a field day trumpeting that. The sooner you leave this earth the better off everyone will be. But this is by no means clear, and some sources indicate she was her husband’s sister, and thus pure Macedonian. The only similarity between Cleopatra and Hatsheput was that they were both female rulers of Egypt. No one wants to point out the blatant anti-blackness in this article? Um… Mediterranean/Greek does not equal white… Their skin tone/ethnicity whatever is closer to that of middle eastern people than anything else… Not Caucasian in the least. Although he had two wives of traditional Macedonian background, he seems to have had at least one concubine of uncertain origin, who may have been Cleopatra’s grandmother. But she was African because Egypt is IN Africa. You sound like a typical cacausoid trying to explain away the obvious. Cleopatra now owned lush groves of balsam trees, which once had belonged to Herod. at Memphis plus a statue fragment of another found at the site of Caesarea, where Kleopatra’s daughter lived and ruled, illustrates the close relationship between the Ptolemaic rulers and this powerful Memphite priestly family. Mr. Roller emphasizes how important it is to consider Cleopatra’s accomplishments and legacy over all else. PEOPLE LIKE YOU ALLWAYS WANT TO MAKE US LOOK LESS BY YOUR STANDERS. Illustration of face, ethnic, ancient - 157526869 [7], Scholars identify Cleopatra as having been essentially of Greek ancestry with some Persian ancestry, based on the fact that her Macedonian Greek family (the Ptolemaic dynasty) had intermarried with the Seleucid aristocracy of the time. There was a great segregation between the egyptians (be them whiter saharians or darker nubians) and southern Niger-congo tribes. Now for the second: Egypt is a country in the continent of Africa. [50], In his Kleopatra und die Caesaren (2006), Bernard Andreae [de] contends that this Egyptian basalt statue is like other idealized Egyptian portraits of the queen, and does not contain realistic facial features and hence adds little to the knowledge of Cleopatra's appearance. Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek. The author made this comment ” It is hard to imagine that race would be more important than acting ability, but clearly others disagree” — then why not cast Cleopatra with a male actor if historical facts don’t matter. […] is depicted conjunct to Jupiter in the Dendera Zodiac — supposedly the oldest zodiac around. Egypt was conquered by Alexander the Greek! So before you go and try to confirm something in history know your truth. They Believe their own LIES – caucasians are Allergic to Truth.”It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society” (Jiddu Krishnamurti). “Woolly hair?” I guess Mr. Roller thinks there is no intended deception in transferring racial truth to gratify Whites. The whitewashing debate isn’t about encouraging incredibly geographically prescriptive casting; it’s not about finding an actor of Greek/Macedonian descent if we … In the case of cleopatra she came from a “white” family but thats only her fathers side I’m surprised nobody mentioned the discovery her sisters remains which showed genetically that her mother was of clear African decent. She was Albanian .they’re was no such thing as Greece or Macedonian back then. It has been proven that modern day Egyptians share the same DNA markers as Ancient Egyptian. “Black” comes in several shades of skin, hair and eyes, and varying facial features, all native to the continent of Africa, pre-European interaction/invasions. Nothing has changed then and now people lie. The Macedonians that defeated the poleis in 338 at Chaeronea would go on to spread Greek language and traditions over Asia and yes, Egypt…Much like the Romans continued to up to the middle ages. Pro and con but what send to be the focal point is that all that had been discussed took place in the mother land of Africa which is the birth place of humanity. Now off to the black afrocentrics claiming Egypt was black because “it is in Africa”. Black people, who was Cleopatra’s Black Egyptian husband??? A number of actresses from different ethnic backgrounds have previously portrayed the famous queen’s character, the most prominent of which being American actress Elizabeth Taylor, in the movie “Cleopatra”, co-starring with Richard Burton. And the picture depicted as the queen is suppose to be proof. We are not merely defined by how we look, the hue of our skin, to whom and where we were born. The triple uraeus She hypothesized the body as that of Arsinoe. But that’s just what the author of this article fails to realise (poor fragile being) it is just what he called it…acting…pretending…not real…fiction…made-up…santa-claus…fairies…unicorns…white. She can be POC all she wants she still had slaves. Including Egypt’s position with the equator, they would be tanned af. It would never happen…know why? Her family lived on Egypt for over 300 years…yes Egypt in African where the first people lived. But as soon as someone do them the same way they want to raise hell but when it’s others it shouldn’t matter or everyone else is being dramatic. There are three other matters worthy of consideration. To keep it simple, her race does matter such as any other powerful figure in our history….. We live in world of universal Eurocentric dogma. How about this? Although she was an Egyptian queen, her ethnicity was Greek as her ancestry came from Ptolemy Sotor, one of Alexander the great 's generals or some say relative. Macedonians and Greeks , who cares ? Race matters in the case of recognising Cleopatra for her achievements, if she was mixed or of African decent than it portraying her as a white woman would almost seem like an insult or a cover up of a very successful African woman. We will only use your personal information to register you for OUPblog articles. Even if she is proven to have Macedonian blood in her, the way that genetics works she still would’ve been a woman of color despite her mixed heritage. Secondly, Cleopatra’s daughter, who became queen of Mauretania (and was mixed ethnically herself, as her father was Roman), honored the Egyptian religious elite at her far-off capital of Mauretanian Caesarea (in modern Algeria). Cleopatra was Greek from Macedon, with heritage to match. CLEOPATRA'S palace Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO PHILO. Maybe because she was as African (Egyptian) as my enslaved great great, grandparents, but you decide! Second, why not any other culture (India, Persia, etc) acquired by Alexander during that time, why Egypt? I will for sure get hate for this, people are going to assume my pigment and try to bash me for it. I’ve seen in the comments above someone saying that Cleopatra was “mixed” or “Mulatto” in appearance but still credit it to a black woman. For the same reason both Swedes and Greeks are European but so totally different, the same thing happens with the sub saharan African people. Your article is full of bias and ridiculousness. 15, 18, 166) harvtxt error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRoller2010 (help) speculates that Cleopatra VII could have been the daughter of a hypothetical half-Macedonian-Greek, half-Egyptian woman belonging to the priestly family of Ptah (the other main candidate he notes would be Cleopatra V/VI) located in Memphis in northern Egypt, but contends that whatever Cleopatra's ancestry, she valued her Greek Ptolemaic heritage the most. [33], In response to the book Not Out of Africa by Lefkowitz, Molefi Kete Asante, Professor of African American Studies at Temple University wrote the article "Race in Antiquity: Truly Out of Africa", in which he emphasized that he "can say without a doubt that Afrocentrists do not spend time arguing that either Socrates or Cleopatra were black. Whether it was Akbar the Great or Catherine Great, the human race looks to the past for people that they can admire, so with some doubts as to every part of who she was it is not at all surprising that we might want to fill in the blanks and find away to bring Cleopatra even closer to us, whether that is by thinking of her as a black woman or a white woman. Because that’s not it…it is what it is…white people historically have usurped the power of the dominant race through pure evil, illusion, lies and skullduggery. Featured Image Credit: ‘The meeting of Antony and Cleopatra’, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1885). This is a subtle means to separate the great kingdom of Egypt from the great continent of Africa. I’m sorry but the writer here sounds angry about the true possibility that she was brown or black. Roller (2010) harvtxt error: multiple targets (3×): CITEREFRoller2010 (help) further notes that "there is absolutely no evidence" that Cleopatra was racially black African as claimed by what he dismisses as generally not "credible scholarly sources." CLEOPATRA: look it up, its Greek too and we know in ancient times where passports and identity cards didn’t exist to show one’s ethnic origins their names were used for such things. Want to test whether you’re still under the illusion that true depiction matters not? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/15/AR2005121501728.html. She was born in early 69 BC as the descendant of a line of Egyptian kings in a dynasty that went back 250 years. In fact educate people to know that “Aryan” does not mean “pure white”; it is not even a race. In ALL the comments from Black people saying Cleopatra was “Black”, the only evidence is “Egypt is in Africa.” And so is Johannesburg and Pretoria. Cleopatra VII was a Macedonian woman and in all probability Afro Egyptian from Egypt. Civilization is a manifestation of genetics. Cleopatra Nsofwa Mwansa, Cleopatra Nsofwa Mwansa-thurman and Cleopatra N Thurman are some of the alias or nicknames that Cleopatra has used. Nevermind that Cleopatra was Egyptian by birth alone and was of Greek ancestry, with an outside chance of possible admixture with Egyptian blood. That is a strange thing for a historian to dismiss.Would you accept a black man playing Caesar? Cleopatra could’ve been of any skin colour and she would’ve been just as popular. It is very illogical to think that after 250 years on the African continent the Ptolemies weren’t heavily influenced by Egyptian culture. The real battle raging right now is clash of civilizations. Why are you so angry that people of a specific origin would educate themselves aside from gov’t approved text books, and rightfully make attempts to reclaim/restore heritage and accomplishments to a people that have been under an erasure agenda for centuries? Another Racist author. Cleopatra Spoke Egyptian. How much pigmentation is required to get this designation, or is this based on other either ethnic/racial characteristics? Cleopatra was a woman of color whether that be olive or midnight black. Maybe saying that it doesn’t matter means that it doesn’t matter to you? While it is (most likely) true that Cleopatra spoke Egyptian, it’s a bit of a stretch to infer that this reflects her mother’s influence. Why do black people want to claim the Ptolemaic dynasty was black? That alone, sheesh. – DivineLove777, #228 Jack Dempsey and the Stars – Sabian Earth Astrology, Gal Gadot Defends Being Cast as Cleopatra As Activists Accuse Director of ‘Whitewashing’ – REAL News 45, Gal Gadot Defends Being Cast as Cleopatra As Activists Accuse Director of 'Whitewashing' - Open Mind News, Gal Gadot Defends Being Cast as Cleopatra As Activists Accuse Director of 'Whitewashing'. It was clearly a sly tactic that only makes you sound like more of a scammer. The original Egyptians were pushed into the Sudan. The word that this “demolishes” the idea I found to be especially melodramatic. “and there is no such thing as a Macedonian Greek”. – The Winds of War: History, Academia, and Current Affairs, Are Angelina Jolie and Lady Gaga fit for the Role of Cleopatra? (1997). Names, Identity, History, Heritage, Legacy – These things are important to Greeks…worth keeping, worth preserving and worth protecting. What surprises me is not the fact that Cleopatra could have been Macedonian Greek (I’m not arguing that – it seems logical) but rather the way so many people are quick to point out the faults of others with a scholarly background. It matters, it matters.. And to say it doesn’t shows color blind ignorance. African-Americans are not an homogeneous group of people. http://bit.ly/gH3lvy […]. So Cleopatra was no more than eight generations away from being pure Macedonian Greek. The problem is that Americans call all people who could play a mixed character ‘black’. Additionally, there are so few opportunities for African American actors, and actors of other minority groups, so yes, it is definitely a problem of race. While Cleopatra was born in Egypt, she traced her family origins to Macedonian Greece and Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great’s generals. Cleopatra – http://www.behindthename.com/name/cleopatra. Mostly in college, but I’ve faced it in my job and in my own neighborhood. between the successors of Alexander. It is as insidious and vile as cockroaches- you can’t always see them but you know they’re there. She was a powerful leader and reportedly the most beautiful woman of that time. I think rather than telling us what Cleopatra actually looked like, an artistic representation, be it in the ancient world or modern, tells us more about the artist who made it, than its subject. CLEOPATRA WAS A STRONG BLACK WOMAN. Black people don’t fall for the lies and stop watching anything with false depiction of the people of your homeland. "[7] Lefkowitz notes the essay includes the claim that Cleopatra described herself as black in the New Testament's Book of Acts – when in fact Cleopatra had died more than sixty years before the death of Jesus Christ. Illustration of ethnic, person, pharaon - 185736058 I think the reason this is so contested is because much of the history that we have been taught is false. Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek, anyone with a history degree knows ancient Macedonians had a Greek identity and culture or else they wouldn’t have spread Greek culture, identity, language, etc. A Cleopatra movie with Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who played Wonder Woman, is causing controversy because of the Egyptian queen's ethnicity. Cleopatra Coleman is an Australian actress. The Greek character having formed over millennia, can be summarized as being multi-layered and multifaceted. It’s even worse than it sounds. It’s tooo much, isn’t it? [21] Polo writes that Cleopatra's coinage present her image with certainty and asserts that the sculpted portrait of the "Berlin Cleopatra" head is confirmed as having a similar profile. 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