On 6/3/2022 1:13 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2022 10:47:58 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <t7denu$kgs$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
>> David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2022-06-01 12:43 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> so your insistence that he must be white and straight like the real one
>>>>> doesn't make a lot of sense.
>>>>
>>>> Sure it does. The same kind of sense it would make if Marvel had cast a
>>>> white guy to play Black Panther which would have sent all the racial
>>>> grievance mongers into paroxysms of howling outrage over 'whitewashing'
>>>> and cultural appropriation.
>>
>>> Black Panther is a character who is specifically about being black. Is
>>> Tom Swift a character who is specifically about being white?
>>
>> They blackwashed Queen Anne, too. A real historical person, queen of
>> England, who was most definitely not black.
>>
>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13406036/
>>
>> Imagine the howls of outrage if they made a movie about Shaka Zulu and
>> cast a white guy to play him.
>
> And not just 'deep yaller' but quite dark black too. Since we know
> Boleyn was some shade of red/auburn hair presumably you would want
> Damian Lewis to play Shaka as "compensation"?
>
> But then the folks who blackwashed Queen Anne were almost certainly of
> the sort that would insist any ruler of an African country even one
> north of the Sahara *MUST* *ABSOLUTELY* *BE* *BLACK* and if not the
> production must be racist and that that very much includes Cleopatra.
>
> Whereas actually given Cleopatra was of Macedonian descent she was
> probably paler skin than Gal Gadot but we shall surely never know
> since the Egyptians were said to have hidden her grave where it would
> never be found and have apparently succeeded in that aim.
>

Archeologists believe they may have found it recently.