I mean the idea that Africa automatically equals black skin is straight up ignorant though. Look at pretty much all of North Africa. Cleopatra wasn't even African or Egyptian in the first place anyways. Greek/Macedonian I think, it's even in the name.
This show just seems like the usual Hotep nonsense a few African American celebrities like to get involved with. Directed by Jada Pinkett Smith, so makes sense.
I don't know why people do this when they could just make stories about the many real black African figures in history. Imagine a series about Mansa Musa or great Zimbabwe. A modern Shaka Zulu remake.
You can watch the original one for free on YouTube. I watched it as a kid, so I can't remember if it's good or not. I remember the lead actor being very convincing.
Its just weird because there's an actual term for the Afrocentric ideology that states ancient Egypt was actually full of black people (Hotepism) but the redditors default to a country with a colonial history that had our own much worse version of racial segregation last up until the mid 90s.
I mean the idea that Africa automatically equals black skin is straight up ignorant though. Look at pretty much all of North Africa. Cleopatra wasn't even African or Egyptian in the first place anyways. Greek/Macedonian I think, it's even in the name.
This show just seems like the usual Hotep nonsense a few African American celebrities like to get involved with. Directed by Jada Pinkett Smith, so makes sense.
I don't know why people do this when they could just make stories about the many real black African figures in history. Imagine a series about Mansa Musa or great Zimbabwe. A modern Shaka Zulu remake.
I would watch the shit out of a Zulu-Anglo War movie or series rather correctly casts the Zulus as protagonists and the English as evil colonialism.
You can watch the original one for free on YouTube. I watched it as a kid, so I can't remember if it's good or not. I remember the lead actor being very convincing.
https://youtu.be/UwbthBr5MuA
Anyone who believes it ignorant yes. South Africa just seems like a bad example to use in this case for some reason.
South Africa is an incredibly bad example yeah. Especially Elon Musk on top of that.
Really weird that Reddit just defaults to that.
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Ever hear the :lmayo: on :reddit-logo: concern troll about King Bazinga being "the most important African American of all time?" I have. :disgost:
Its just weird because there's an actual term for the Afrocentric ideology that states ancient Egypt was actually full of black people (Hotepism) but the redditors default to a country with a colonial history that had our own much worse version of racial segregation last up until the mid 90s.
"Rhodesia" as a concept is only good as a means to red flag cryptofascists. :the-more-you-know:
My go-to response to that is that Elon is an African-American in the same sense that Japanese people are Pacific Islanders.
Technically true in the strictest technical sense? Yes.
Completely not what people mean when they say those words? Also yes.
God I want a Mansa Musa's Hajj prestige TV show so badly. Drama, comedy, I don't care, I WANT IT.