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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] Okay this is one winding road you guys took me through. The topic went from Didyme a black Egyptian to Cleopatra's white titties. Again, I'm not saying Cleopatra was necessarily of mixed indigenous ancestry but the possibility exists because her sister Arsinoe [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic;f=8;t=006303;go=newer]was[/URL]. This fact along with the passage that Brandon cites is about their ancestor Ptolemy II having Didyme as a lover shows that the Alexandrians were not as segregated from the native populace as many historians would have us think. We know that after Alexander's conquest and founding of the colonial city of Alexandria, the Makedon-Hellenist elites who ruled the city enforced a law that no natives may enter except as servile peoples to the court (either slaves, servants, or employees). This has lead many Western scholars to suspect the same type of Apartheid policies as practiced by colonial Brits under their empire. However, the 'mixed-race' Princess Arsinoe who was rival to Cleopatra for the throne, as well as Dr. Ben-Jochannan's reference to the founding Ptolemy I having a native wife and his son Ptolemy II married to a native woman by the name of Hadra, shows they were not the anti-miscegenistic white supremacists that Euros were in recent centuries. In fact it was customary in those days to establish ties to a foreign land via intermarriage with natives. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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