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YOU BE RAYCISS

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If you have a difference of opinion these days, you’re Rayciss?
WTF? My feelings are hurt!
I want my $1,200,000 to ease my pain,
and I want it now!
Sorry Charlie, you have the wrong skin color.
Can’t you see we’re fighting Raycism here?

Cleopatra “had light skin and Hellenistic (Greek) features,” per a statement from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
Cleopatra VII Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, "Cleopatra the father-beloved" 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.

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No, I mean it would be naive of me to say that I didn't expect anything at all, but I didn't expect the scale of it. And I think it's just dressing for anybody to receive any level of abuse, let alone the scale and the nature of what I've received, which is fundamentally racist, all of it. But you know, I think the thing here is people are talking about the wrong things. Yes, we don't know where her mother was from or her paternal grandmother, but also the show is about so much more than the question mark over her race. If you watch it, it's a very small part of the conversation. Really, this is about the fullness of who this woman was and she was a human being and she shouldn't be reduced to her race any more than I should or anybody should. You