#but to say in our modern world that cleopatra was black has such dangerous implications

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I literally never give a shit about movies casting non poc characters as poc like who gives a shit. But the new netflix doccuseries about like “powerful women in history” is a fkn joke. If theyre presenting something as a “documentary” and its about history something feels fkn malicious about race changing someone like cleopatra.

Presenting something completely changed to suit the current attitude of the general populace is big big yikes. Rewriting history has always been an agent of cultural erasure and the complete decimation of TONS of things that shouldve been remembered. Rewriting history is just about reaching toward fascist territory.

If you are presenting something that is meant to be somewhat “factual” and you completely change the race of who the person fkn is…? Is that not insane? Where is the line where it becomes not ok? Can people just start claiming that all influential people of history were some kind of POC as if to say “look the atrocities committed weren’t all that bad because they’re a poc.” “They were protecting their race! their people!” by doing these awful things? Like so were the fkn nazis??? This little thing is indicative of such dangerous fallout and misinformation that can spiral down into bullshit real fast and I fkn hate it.

#BIG ASS EYEROLL #its not ‘woke’ to cast a real person from history as POC its genuinely destructive to fkng history #not all… africans are black………. #she ruled an empire of slaves just like everyone before her….. #making her black is not girl power i just HAJFNSKFNWKSJD #Her race really didnt fkn matter in like what she did for her years if ruling or like how she behaved that part doesn’t matter #but to say in our modern world that cleopatra was black has such dangerous implications #You cannot erase history and present it in a way that the modern world would like to see #thats fucking gross #the ptolemaic dynasty was… not….. black #kushite dynasty was black!!! perhaps find a woman from that dynasty and make an episode about her rather than rewrite fkng history #RANT RABT #It needs to be said that I am double indigenous and I am TIREDDDDD of shit like this #My peoples history has been destroyed again and again by this attitude