Why do Woke activists insist on Blackwashing (or POC-washing) succesful Whites (or White-coded people)? Why don´t they talk about actual Black/colored achievements? Instead of claiming Cleopatra, why not talk about the Kandake of Nubia who actually defeated Augustus? What about the West African empires of the Middle Ages? Or, if you really want to be a radical, what about the Haitian revolution, the slave rebellion in Demerara, or some such?
I see two possibilities. One: iconoclasm. It´s "blasphemy" to claim that succesful White or White-coded people are actually Black, Brown, Gypsy, or whatever. The whole thing can be compared to how Communists destroy religious shrines, Christians or Muslims destroy pagan shrines, and so on.
But there is another possibility: envy. If so, the oppressed colored masses have internalized their oppression. Their reactions are implicitly White. Why are they envious of the pastimes of their White oppressors? A bit like Blackwashing White slave-owners...
Oh, and another thing. How do we even know that the Woke activists are Black or POC in the first place?
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