My problem isn’t that Cleopatra was White.
Evidence suggests she was Greek and that’s fine.
My main issue is that she’s become the focal point of Egyptian society.
That is a fallacy, because the Egyptian civilization was a powerful, autonomous, society well before Cleopatra and the Greeks came along.
Can we talk about Hatshepsut, Merneith, Nimaethap, Nitocris and the other badass female Pharaohs that were running shit centuries before Cleopatra was even thought of?
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