Michael Davis: White Power
Rupert Murdoch is one of the most powerful men in American media” He’s a lot more Australian than American but I think he holds citizenship in both countries. Don’t quote me, I really don’t care to know if he does or not. I just find it amusing that darling of the Far Right was born “down under” and many of those on the Far Right don’t consider you really American unless you were born here.
Funny. Ted Cruz was born Calgary, Canada. That’s something, eh?
Last week Murdoch said “Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.” This was his response to the severe criticism being leveled at the film Exodus: Gods and Kings.
Ridley Scott’s film has taken a massive media hit because the movie is portraying historic people of color as…wait for it…wait for it…Wait…For…It…
…white.
I won’t get into the rather or not the ancient Egyptians were black… OK, maybe a little. Noted American geologist Robert M. Schoch has written that the “Sphinx has a distinctive African, Nubian, or Negroid aspect to it. “
The debate rather or not the ancient Egyptians were black won’t be settled anytime soon. Who the fuck knows, they may not have been black as I believe they are. I will admit there’s a chance I’m wrong.
However, they sure as fuck were not white.
Rupert Murdoch has the money and media reach to do a lot of things. Perhaps one of the things on his to do list is to change history. Change is so people of color are wiped out of it.
Or maybe he just flunked history.
Either way, I’m having none of it.
I’m boycotting that movie, and I don’t know one person of color who’s not.
So, if you would like to join us, great! If not, that’s your right, or at least it’s your right before someone decides it’s not.
Cleopatra, i have read, was probably either a redhead or a blonde – she was a Ptolemy, originally a Greek family who came from a region where that’s common.
@Mike:
You are aware that there were several women who bore the name Cleopatra, yes? So which one of them are you referring to?
Here’s a hint: whichever one it is, is totally irrelevant to this discussion, since Cleopatra doesn’t appear neither in Mr. Davis’s article, nor in the movie in question.
Rupert Murdoch, OTOH, is a douche, no matter what colour he happens to be.
All anyone has to do, is Google “Black Egyptians”, and watch their screen flood with images by the very same name.
To ass-ume that modern Egypt is a snap shot of Ancient Egypt, is like assuming modern America looked exactly like this land, before the Europeans settled.
So Murdoch’s Egyptian buddies are white? Good for him. That means they are all of Arab or Persian descent, since that’s what the urban populace of modern-day Egypt is filled with.
I challenge Murdoch (we all know he won’t) to take a camel ride to the Nubian desert, and see the people who have been indigenously there for the past millennia, such as the Beja or the Dom peoples… You know, those same ones that his “white friends” pushed off their lands, when their ancestors invaded.