Candace the Magnificent

Like, why is it better for Cleopatra to be a light-skinned woman than a dark-skinned woman, right?

And not even light-skinned, like, in a light-skinned black person kind of way, but light-skinned, like, white.

Like, they usually make her, like, very, very fair or, like, slightly Middle Eastern looking, right?

But it's, like, why... I don't think that people understand that that's, like...

low-key anti-black you know i'm saying yeah like it feels like it feels like they're just like well no it's just different it's not wrong that you know it's not wrong blackness isn't wrong it's just different and it's like right but you hear cleopatra was supposed to be really beautiful these egyptians were gorgeous and you don't associate that with them being black right what are you saying about being black

Like, I don't think that people really understand that like dichotomy.

So like you're reading all of this.

I remember when I was younger and I was reading this, like all these people were instantly black.

I'm like, Marius is black.

Fucking everybody here is black.

Like, I don't care.

Right.

But there are so many people who read this and then interpret it as just Middle Eastern.

And it's like, why?

Why are you so upset about blackness?

Right.

Like, why are you doing this?

So I'm curious to see how.

how Anne Rice is going to kind of move through the rest of this narrative because I don't really remember like obviously I was reading it through the glasses of somebody who was marginalized for being black among other things when I was younger so now that I'm older I'm like man I don't remember how I like netted out with this like where my brain kind of went so I'm very interested to kind of see how it unfolds um one of the things I wrote down though is I was like maybe they're going to make Marius Swanna right like uh which is um

which is Southwest Asian and North African, right?