#anyways this is one of my many many incorrect and correct interpretations of ruler of everything. not even something that i think happened
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#MIND QUIT FORCING HEART TO ROLEPLAY KING AND SERF WITH YOU AND GET BACK TO WRITING MUSIC YOU SGUPID WANNABE KING IDIOT ASS#hc that the trident can throw lightning. becauseeee uhhhhhh#anyway you WILL look at my inconsistently edited scans of my traditional hms drawings and you WILL like it#in my head this is circa ruler of everything where heart just tried to kill mind failed and now minds taken advantage of his vulnerable stat#e#to be all immm the ruler of everything. do as i say. until soul sees what theyre doing and is like WHAT THE HELL ARE TOU DOING??#and they snap out of it. at least heart does#anyways this is one of my many many incorrect and correct interpretations of ruler of everything. not even something that i think happened#just silly doodles#based off the ending verses where heart sings that he understands mind is the ruler of everything in the end#whatever that means#posting mainly cus i liked the expression mind makes when soul yells at him. rlly good#ALSO ignore the shitty crown of thorns. i was lazy okay#if u read this ur cool#jaggy posts#chonny jash#cccc#chonny jash fanart#cj mind#cj soul#cj heart#chonnys charming chaos compendium
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I know you don't usually do these kinds of posts, but you're probably one of the most implicated in black history month people that I follow so I wanted to ask you, as I already value your opinions in Acotar, what do you think of the documentary where actual historians claim Cleopatra was a black woman? Lately, this has been a pretty active topic on my fyp on TikTok, and I wanted to know a black woman's perspective on this.
Thank you in advance, and if you usually don't answer these questions or don't want to answer this one, I'll totally understand, and there's no problem at all.
I didn’t know there was a new documentary out, but when I saw the name Cleopatra I automatically sighed because I knew what was coming. This is a subject a know a little 🤏🏾 about, actually, because I researched it a bit myself in my last year of high school (and stopped because of the uh. NASTINESS associated with this particular subject) and though it’s been a few years I remembered some main, basic things, and I wanted to check a few things first.
At best, in the most CHARITABLE interpretation as far as I in my limited knowledge can tell, it would be correct to say that’s it’s POSSIBLE that she MAY have been mixed Black because, though she was part of the GREEK Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt (Ptolemy being one of Alexander the Great’s generals who got the Egyptian portion of his empire after Alexander died), that’s on her fathers side; her mother’s exact ethnicity isn’t known. Not that this won’t stop the hoteps from running off and claiming her and all of ancient Egypt as Black though So some have ***speculated*** that her mother—and thus Cleopatra—may have potentially been part Egyptian (and that goes into the issue of deciding that the “Egyptian” in this instance had to have been Black rather than MENA but that’s again a whole other can of worms). BUT it’s more likely that her mother was Greek due to the uh, PRACTICE™️ of inbreeding and it not being common for the dynasty to marry Egyptians. So it’s more probable that she was fully Greek/Macedonian and not part Egyptian, much less part Black. (Also some historians speculate she may have had Persian blood? I guess? Again it’s a can of worms, not something i’m digging deep into because of the nastiness that you often stumble across) Unless there’s a new study confirming her mother’s identity or something that I missed, it’s simply incorrect to claim that Cleopatra was undeniably Black, because though it is ***possible*** she most likely ***wasn’t.***
But this topic really upsets me, because there are LEGITIMATE Black kingdoms and empires who were mighty and well developed and powerful like the Aksumite empire and kingdoms of Kongo and Loango and the Great Zimbabwe empire and the empires of Ghana and Mali and Songhay and the Ashanti kingdom and the WHOLE SWAHILI COAST THAT WAS INVOLVED IN THE INDIAN OCEAN TRADE ROUTE and they had their own great rulers, their own kings and queens and emperors and empresses, their palaces and castles, their own cities and towns, their own complex civilizations and dynastic royal families that deserve the attention Cleopatra and ancient Egypt get. They were erased—and Egypt was not—by white people to prop themselves up as the only race capable of forming civilizations and advanced societies as a means of justifying colonization and imperialism to “civilize” the rest of the world and as a result many of those other empires have been erased from our education system here in the states and many people cling to ancient Egypt as proof that we’re not inferior and aren’t savages like white people claim due to believing that since Egypt’s in Africa it had to have been mostly Black when Egypt, and the Ptolemaic dynasty and Cleopatra in PARTICULAR, are literally the worst example that could’ve been chosen and were the only African kingdom spared erasure FOR A REASON.
Anyway, I don’t like it, it’s disingenuous and does US wrong because we need to give that energy to other African kingdoms that need and could use the fame Egypt + Cleopatra get, and we deserve a better education system to teach us this stuff. I hope this answers your question? And I don’t mind any kinds of asks 🥰
#I get the desire to claim Egypt because I remember in high school a racist white guy asked why Africans didn’t build their own civilizations#And that’s what sent me researching in the first place so I truly get the frustration but black women we can do BETTER#ask#anon#cleopatra#egypt#africa#racism#Don’t come at me in my inbox yall#antiblackness
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