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I’m deeply annoyed with all the people pressed to debunk those she mentioned would be brown and those whom were African. And to add to say they “arent black” is telling of one’s ignorance. No one is “black” it is simply a descriptive language imposed on those of the African Diaspora by Euro-centric people. So everyone please relax. SMDH.

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All snowflakes in the audience peed and pooped their pants.

Finally a professor points out Caracalla, Geta and Macrinus (and Jugurtha, and countless others) would be brown people looking like your typical North African instead of white or black. What a shameless disregard for the people whose history hollywood pillages for profit. Anything remotely reminiscent of a middle-eastern man has to be a villain or a soulless, vaguely hostile backdrop prop either herding sheep or aggressively screaming prices in a dirty market place. Hollywood has been so pointedly dismissive and demonizing towards these groups that this practice isnt even pointed out by those who portray themselves are no-nonsense historical movie critics, so thank you

Jaclyn Neel we need more of you! PLEASE MAKE MORE MOVIE REVIEWS! Or anything honestly.

More fake revisionist woke nonsense. Macrinus was not black - he was white. Thank God we have visual proof of artwork to show this fact

It’s very curious to see how some folks of a lighter complexion (and system of reality) in the comments are telling on themselves by reinforcing the same white masculine identities and anxieties Dr. Neel alludes to 👀

Sorry, did I miss the part where you reacted to Gladiator 2 or was that short intro it?

Jugurtha and Macrinus portrayed as black men (which they aren't) but i guess having the great Denzel washington as one of the main characters, it's somehow an acceptable inaccuracy ... then also during the first scenes of the movie we clearly hear an old Numidian man speaking in Arabic (WTF) 😔

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Her association of Russell Crowe's Gladiator character identifying as a farmer with "white southern identity" (presumably the Southern US" is as about anachronistic and irrelevant as it gets. The association in the movie and the book upon which it was based is the "farmer/soldier" trope of ancient Roman military heroism, refering to an idealised type that Romans would very much have appreciated well into the Imperial era, despite farmer soliders being a thing of the past as early as the military reforms of Marius in the 2nd C BCE.

People in North Africa are Mediterranean peoples, they have the same skin tone as Spanish, Greek and Italian people's who are considered white. They certainly wouldn't be as black as the emperor is portrayed to be in this film as that is how sub Saharan Africans look, not north Africans.

She is only telling half truth blacks created Roman and Greek civilization they were the first rulers and they taught the Indo-European to be civilized really everything they know bc you had to go to Egyptian mystery schools first it wasn’t until the blacks left did they start to rule

Black Privilege and Judeo-Christian appropriation all in one video.. 😂

Macrinus was Berber, Caracalla and Geta were Punic and Arab. They would have definitely looked similar. But none of them would have been white or black!

Movies are not historical documentaries. They should be seen for what they are. When I watch documentaries, I am looking for information and knowledge, when watching movies, I am looking for entertainment.

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Just got back from watching the second film, it is wonderfully silly!

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Not one emperor of rome was black just like the zulus had no white leaders

Lmao OK lady 😂🤣. Atleast I know where not to send my kids for college

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Loved this - interesting and educational! More professor reacts pls :)

Very enjoyable. Greetings from Toronto.

Berbers are going no be annoyed by this. The America obsession with modern racial definition superimposed on the past is mystifying.

When I first saw the credits showing Caracalla and Geta as caucasians with red hair,I thought WTF! They were of African descent and the bust of a Caracalla clearly shows his African features.A cameo of his father Septimius Severus shows him as black. BUT,this is a Ridley Scott film so even the pretence of some level of historical accuracy isn't to be expected.

Syrians aren’t brown and neither are North Africans. They’re tan

Why is she using Chucky's voice😂

This is all Woke lies,.There were no black leaders in the Roman empire~

Damn professor… get lost in your words. You have a beautiful way with words. I could listen to you all day. And the “kickass” air quotes was cute 😊 Thank you for making this video.

Reviewed by someone who knows the topic.

As for the idea that Rome from "its first days" depended on slave labour - there was not even a specialist slave market in the Rome till the Punic Wars.

No there were not "multiple slaves for every free person" in the Roman Empire - even in Italy slaves were a minority.

Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla's father and Emperor, was of Italian descent as was his wife. He just happened to have been born in a northen Africa Roman province. The woke mob decided he was black because there is a mosaic of him, his wife and Caracalla where is skin is dark like he has been out in the sun. Totally Caucasian features.

That teacher is good.

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The most accurate thing about this movie is the depravity of human beings, and how we make entertainment out of depravity and lowliness.

I was hoping for a non woke analysis. I have been to northern Africa on numerous occasions from Morocco, to Lybia to Tunisia and Egypt. They are not BLACK. that is sub saharanpur Africa. Also the higher up the social class, the paler the people tend to be. In Roman times, the rulers of northern Africa were of Roman descent. DUH or Greek or Macedonian or Thracian, Illurian there were also for centuries Visigoth or Vandal rulers, who were white, not colored or brown. What a noncece professor. She should know this.

This is an interesting comparison of scenes from the film with historical accounts/sources. Additionally, Professor Neel apparently also nresearched the making of the film to understand some of the cinematic choices, which is commendable. However, her comments regarding the use of the Testudo at 6:17 make me wonder if she's actually watched the film! To anyone who has, it's obvious that they're using their shields to keep Commodus and Maximus hidden from view as they rise into the arena, so they can then be theatrically revealed to the crowd. Her criticism that they're using a military maneuver incorrectly is absurd.

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Any discussion of Canadian gov elections? More topical!