The entertainment industry is filled with Winston Smiths. Those tasked with – obsessed with – reimaging details to fit a BIPOC worldview in the name of social justice. A world where the color of the skin matters more than anything else.
Ironically, this is a considerable step backward: race, religion, skin color, and ethnicity have defined people for millennia. And we’d made good progress getting away from that – at least in America – until Barry Obama systematized the modern race war in the name of social justice. Everything has become about race, and the progressive entertainment industry, whose gig is to play house or make-believe in exchange for money, had taken this cue as an opportunity.
In the name of undoing a past injustice with which most of the people currently alive had nothing to do, they are balancing the scales no matter who they piss off. NETFLIX, a leader in the trend, has an ongoing docuseries that “educate(s) audiences on the fearless, captivating lives of [African] queens who were likely not part of their Western academic curriculum.” Do you know what else wasn’t part of the Western academic curriculum? A black Cleopatra.
And to be frank, I don’t care. As the actress chosen to portray Cleopatra reminds us, if you don’t like the casting, don’t watch, but won’t that harm my social credit score? Approved versions of history will be required viewing in the New World Order. One that, for now, has Egyptians annoyed.
Adele James, who is black, is cast as Cleopatra. She’s a fine actress, and I’m sure she’ll do the role justice, but is it social justice? According to “Zahi Hawass, a prominent Egyptologist, and former antiquities minister, … “This is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not black.”
Mr Hawass said the only rulers of Egypt known to have been black were the Kushite kings of the 25th Dynasty (747-656 BC).
“Netflix is trying to provoke confusion by spreading false and deceptive facts that the origin of the Egyptian civilisation is black,” he added and called on Egyptians to take a stand against the streaming giant.
NETFLIX has been color-washing history for years. And not just human history but fiction as well. And again, I don’t care. HBOs House of the Dragon has prominent roles described as fair-skinned in the source material with incredibly light hair portrayed by blacks, and I think they did a fantastic job. Top-shelf. I’m sure Adele James will do an excellent job as well. But Cleopatra is a historical person whose story is an integral part of the national culture, and you’re messing with it.
NETFLIX is projecting its liberal guilt onto the heritage of another nation. Or is that the point? Greeks should have never been there in the first place. Or they are as stupid as the average corporate media reporter. Egypt is part of the African Continent, so Cleopatra has to be black.” You know, to make up for all the white or light-skinned women who played a role in the past. This is a pendulum swing in the other direction to balance the scales.
I have no issue with that if the parts played are fictional, even if the fictional character would have likely had a different skin color from the actor portraying the role. But they either can’t help it or – like Anheuser Buch – there’ are some Soros-funded fanatics at a supposedly non-governmental organization who will give them a bad “score” if they don’t colorize or genderize everything.
And now the Netflix Series – independent of the acting – is not about the “captivating lives of [African] queens who were likely not part of their Western academic curriculum.” It is reimaging how history should be taught in Western curricula, which is undoubtedly what they were always after.
Exit question: Does the Netflix Docuseries on African Queens delve into that continent’s extensive history of slavery, or did they Netflixwash that too?
