One more reason I don't like this video. It just occurred to me that when referring to Ptolemy she showed a picture of the ancient scholar instead of Ptolemy Soter. LMAO.
I find it so infuriating with the whole "her mother and grandmother could have been anyone, it could have been an Egyptian woman, it could have been a Sub-Saharan woman, it could have been a European woman" yeah maybe if we lived in fantasy land where everything is possible. I'm sure Ptolemy XII had jungle fever. This is such a modern perspective on the matter. Both her mother and grandmother were likely to be Greek, her mother was 99% likely to be Cleopatra V. Her grandmother was probably also Greek at the very least if not another member of the Ptolemaic family. "So I'm going to work off the assumption that Cleopatra was 75% Greek and Middle Eastern" WTF!!! WHY!!!???
Honestly this past month I realized something... so many of these academics are so terrible. They will give doctorates to just about anyone. So I will be expecting my PhD in the mail cause if supporters of "Black Cleopatra" can have one or "We don't know who Cleopatra's mom was she might have been Egyptian" can have one then I can have one already. It was already bad when academics were like "Cleopatra might have been part Egyptian because she spoke Egyptian" never mind the fact that she also spoke cave speak apparently, so I guess she was a Neanderthal as well. But now Jada Pinkett Smith can produce documentaries?
Give me a major in Early Modern Warfare, Napoleonic Warfare, Sengoku Era Japan, Ancient China (specifically the Warring States, Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms), Hittite studies, Classics and a minor in Post-Modern African Diaspora media, throw in PoliSci, and... I dunno Psychology or something.