"They Are Stealing My Culture!" Bassem Youssef On Netflix's 'Cleopatra' Casting

The gymnastics to justify offending an entire country and then screaming racism when they're called out for bastardizing history.

The country who's opinion actually matters is Egypt. They're essentially being told they're the bad guys and racists for being offended by their history being misportrayed when you know each and every single person would have been dragged and quartered if they portrayed a black African princess with a white woman.

The racial sensitivity dude is a massive hypocrite and doesn't like being called out on it.

I'm on Egypt's side on this one. It's bullshit and hypocrisy.

WE WUZ KANGZ N WE BUILT THE PYRAMIDZ N SHEEEET

Egypt is black. Period

How many cancel culture books can someone have on one bookshelf? lmao just wow

Egypt was ruled by different rulers at different time the original inhabitants were called kemet they are black

Cleopatra is neither black or Egyptians

Netflix: Cleoblacktra

Bravo Baseeem! Much love from greece🇬🇷🇪🇬

I totally agree with bassem Youssef his knowledge and understanding should be respected it is true the Americans are so arrogant they don!t know how to respect other countries history. Leave documentaries to the countries concerned and the people their own people, they know better. Cleapatra was not black she was Greek.

imma be real it's not his culture modern egyptians are arabic... else he's right

Schooling in America depends on parents' wallets. In the rest of the world, at least in Europe, an excellent education is free. You can see the effects in some of the comments here. Egyptian history is taught to children in Europe for several years and not just 2 days as apparently in America.

Your Arab. What are you talking about? North Africa belong to us Berbers. You arabs stole Africa.

Yea... cleopera from the HOOD ...ridiculous

ASTAGHFIRULLAH....
How is it possible that the Arabs on the African continent and Muslims do DISCRIMINATION????
This is pure IGNORANCE...
Don't forget that the prophet Moses was black and was chosen by Allah to save the people of Egypt from slavery....
Be afraid of Allah.👆🏾

Cleopatra was of Greek descent, i.e. European. The rulers are usually brighter than average. Cleopatra was, of course, white.

cleopatra had Armenian roots- read and learn

ahahah! YEah!
It's just like black Vikings))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Stupid Hollywood

In Hollywood Unless the history is about african american they see no problem with debunking other race's cultural rights. They are so keen in oppression,racism and mistake appreciation to appropriation. How long would they play the black and white war .

How can you admit that Kusjites took the throne but then say they don't look like people who lived in Egypt?

This Ernest Owens type is just awful. Not just because of his awkward faces and mannerisms: Egypt was ruled by a white elite during the time of Cleopatra and she was Greek as well.

😂 This guy Bassem Youssef needs a history course

she was greek u dumb people

This so called Egyptian isnt even a real Egyptian im a descendant of Ramsey the 3rd please try to call me out cos ill be ready to show all of you proof

Me:Welcome to 2023, were we have people rewritting history, so it maches their ideology. Also, if you don't like another country's history, you only need to shut them down

Someone: I don't care what they tell you, Cleopatra was black!

Actual egyptologists (including *Zahi Hawass): WTF???

*: For those who don't know who Zahi Hawass, he's Egypt's ex-tourism minister and one of the most famous egyptologists in the world.

I don't care who plays a role in a movie i care about the fact that they claim to be historical documentary but they are totally fictional and people believe that crap

Cleopatra came from the Ptolemaic Dynasty which came from Greece and Macedonia, you know the same culture of Alexander the Great.

This black dude is simply ignorant, arrogant and stupid all rolled into one.

Discusting do not change history. cleopatra was Greek. No African.

How many mummies have Europeans disrespectfully removed out of their tombs? Hundreds! You have DNA testing its very simple to solve. Europeans will never do that. They are much happier doing what they have always done. History speaks for itself. Enjoy the climate change 🌞.

Egypt is in Africa. Say no more.

call it a movie/series not documetary

Why was he so offended when doctor Bassam Yusuf said that western Africans didn't build the pyramids "which are in eastern Africa" ? like is he legit sick in the head 😂😂

Why are African Americans so sensitive about race and culture?

This guy on the right side Looks nervous and disgusted 😂

No one knows what so-called race Cleopatra was, her ancestry was complicated.

I do agree with the Egyptian, but back then their were no Arabs in Egypt, only Greeks/Romans and Nubians so it’s hard to say. I do know Cleopatra wasn’t black though, she was greek.

To be honest this is not about racism, but if it's the time of Cleopatra and an african really made it there, they will be just slaves.

Obama is Russian and putin was born in america

Cleopatra was not an arab, she was half Macedonia and egytapin .the Egyptians now , have no link to her on the culture of ancient Egypt. His forefathers did build the pyrymds .facts
Who wants to argue

i stand with logic, i stand with history, i stand with Bassem Youssef.

True she was black

Point made clear, historical documentaries must be accurate, "if a lie is told so many times it will be believed", that's what Bassem is saying. The more distorted movies of historical figures are being made regardless if they are fiction or not people subconsciously assume they are the truth, so it's good to put a stop to it now before it becomes normalized

The black guy/woman/nonbinary looks not very intelligent

The guy on the right purposefully set up that background to look educated but still came out looking like a clown . 😂

"youre focusing on cleopatra and not the other cast members." Yeah, its about her, so they made sure to blackwash her as a sort of brownie(pun intended) point. To say a black person CAN be the mighty cleopatra. So I'm not focusing, they are.

It's about passing as that racial group. The guy on the right is on crack or copium saying she looks more like cleopatra than if they casted someone more caucasian, insinuating that he does in fact, without a shadow of a doubt, believe she was west african.

he tells them "be proud of YOUR heritage" I e, ghana and ect
no need to steal egypts
"shouldnt an actor play any part" it helps to cast roles that pass for the era, i e if i make a series about king arthur, im going to cast a majority of anglo saxons
not throw a random japanese in there.
and if i do try to diverse my cast, say, put a negro, then im going to put a native american, im going to throw in an eskimo, and a hindu.

Cleopatra is not and will never be an Egyptian culture the fact that piers morgan listen to this bullshit and agreed with it show me that when it comes to the truth the entire world will go to great strength to falsified it, she was a Greek woman and egyptian have no business calling her their history, its a solid proof there,that they are not indegenous of this land they don’t know the history of Egypt they know what the Arabs government of Egypt tell them to believe, he said black Americans come from west Africa which is not true. African Americans come from all parts of Africa the nerve he had to come boldly said a lie like that, and millions of people agree with it, what kind of racist ideology is this? And a lot of descendants of invaders on lower Egypt believe that blacks people come from west Africa and have very black charcoal skin with big noise big lips and afro hair, this is pure racism against black peoples and it comes from the descendants of people who is documented and proven that they are not indegenous of the land, that so called lawer even said that who are the Arabs in the cast? When we know for sure that Arab la are not indegenous of Africa they came through invasions, what kind of foolishness is this?

Yeah.. I am with Bassem on this one!