Annnnnd, there it is. Someone whose information is clearly informed by the limits of what they think they do or don’t know. Never a question - just assertions.

Listen up, OhioGrown and all the rest of y’all pointing out that four the people in the above picture looked white. Ok. So what?

They weren’t western European…

GMistanking isn’t trying to spark conversation, though— he’s just trolling.

Egypt is in Africa, therefore it is African. She was trying to disconnect the two. Don't play dumb.

My point is simple. If it's in Africa, it's African.

Fuck the samurai. They're the Japanese equivalent of knights and should be kept in history books.

Please go away and troll elsewhere. You're acting like herpes.

Why, when you can cast people who actually resembled them? Also, LOL black/brownface LOL.

No idea. So you’re saying that because some people in Ancient Egypt were Mediterranean, everyone in the film should be as well?

WETA, ILM, I dunno. I mean, where did they find a Gollum?

So... wanting a movie about Egypt to actually reflect the diversity of Egypt in its Antiquity can’t be done because of a portion of the American moviegoing public?

I remember when I was in high school, my history teacher (Ancient Civ.) told us that ancient Egypt was part of the Mediterranean world. She went on to describe how Egypt had more in common with Rome and Greece than sub-Saharan Africa. I tuned out at that point. The attempt to erase the African from any historical…

Not going to defend them at all and this movie looks like it will be awful, but there is one black guy. Chadwick Boseman is playing Thoth. And his characters poster is this. Are they trying to make it seem more diverse by just adding in more pictures of him?

I saw the preview for this at the theater a couple of months ago and it was distracting, really distracting, how white the cast is. Like make me angry distracting. No black people, no Arab people, it is seriously white. This is not how Egyptian Gods look, damn it!

So my boss is a Trump supporter. And it’s really making me feel awkward. He hasn’t told me or anything, I just hear him talking on the phone to people and he mentions it all the time. Extra awkward because I’m a Hispanic immigrant :/