I see the news that Gal Gadot is making a movie about Cleopatra with Patty Jenkins and I am…bored for the many takes that will declare Cleopatra was a Black woman. I think I have been hearing this since I was a little kid. It was a given that we should love Egypt. I remember having a set of rubber stamps that were carved with hieroglyphics, trying to use them to make a sentence. I remember really trying to read the Book of the Dead. Even as I read this, I remember the smell of Egyptian Cotton incense, which is the unofficial scent of the late 90s, when we used to say “Afrocentric” un-ironically.
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