“We don’t often get to see or hear stories about black queens”
Cleopatra was Greek. Basic historic fact. But we live in an exciting era where actual history has been turned over to be rewritten by the wokes who think that Black Panther’s Wakanda and the 1619 Project are actual history.
So when Netflix decided to cast Gal Gadot, who’s Israeli and thus Mediterranean and at least has some relationship to the role, the BLM crowd protested and she was recast as black. Because everyone who has watched 70s blaxploitation movies knows that Cleopatra was black.
