npub1cppueu5z5xpp2ruqskuwlth0qtdr7s5mtjrqywruxnq3e0y7gqxq572uya (npub1cpp…2uya) npub1404gq59v8r6wz4fa4wup8pdhtt32lfa7k2kezsek4kenl7705wwqyxgask (npub1404…gask) It's hard to impose modern racial classifications retroactively.
Cleopatra belonged to the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty (with some Persian intermarriage), and was depicted with what we think of today as European features in scultures and coins, but her skin tone probably didn't carry the same meanings that it would today.
I see no problem with a Black actor portraying her, and I doubt people 2,000 years ago would have, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra_race_controversy
David Megginson /
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2023-05-13 11:09:42
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