The Black Cleopatra Documentary is Worse Than You Think

this isn’t mere “diversity in casting"

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The controversy over Netflix’s new four-part documentary Queen Cleopatra has been portrayed as a backlash to diversity in casting. “Diverse casting often attracts heated backlash online (like the ridiculous reaction to The Little Mermaid remake), but usually the controversy comes from reactionary spaces like ‘anti-woke’ YouTube,” wro…