Africa Is A BIG Place

 Here we go again. This is one of my  bugbears so…

https://www.iflscience.com/netflix-reignites-recurring-controversy-over-cleopatras-identity-68572

Not this nonsense again. Please.

There is zero evidence that Cleopatra was Black. On the contrary, Romans called her every filthy name they could think of because they hated her so much but they never called her Black. This would be like the Ku Klux Klan attacking her and never mentioning that she was Black. It's just not believable.

The article makes the very valid point that we shouldn't try to apply our racial standards to an era that didn't have those racial standards. Still, reality should be part of the discussion, not cherished fantasies.

There was a period of time (about 89 years) when the Nubians had conquered and ruled Egypt. During that period, the pharaohs were Black.

Strangely, this actual fact is ignored in favor of silly fantasies about Cleopatra. What's next? Martha Washington was Black?

Why not?

There is a huge, a vast, history largely unknown to the average American showing the high civilization and great accomplishments of Black sub-Saharan Africans. Historians know about these facts. Black history for some reason ignores them.

Why?

Reality is better than  fantasies -- one of the reasons it's better is because it's real.

My favorite point is one of the greatest authors in human history, still one of the most popular authors in human history, was Black. But nobody ever mentions that, even during Black History Month. I knew it since I was in junior high school because I read the forward to The Three Musketeers. Yes, the author was Alexandre Dumas.

It should also be noted that one of Napoleon's generals was Dumas' father. Also Black. I don't see that in any histories or hear about that during Black History Month do you?

So to sum it up, I'm skipping a large amount of interesting facts about sub-Saharan Africans and their great accomplishments which are not controversial because they are historical fact. We should be discussing those facts.  Instead, some people prefer to make up goofy fantasies about Cleopatra and call it a controversy. This is beneficial to no one. 

Except companies like Netflix that make a buck off of it.