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The Cleopatra Corns Group, aka Cleopatra DC, is a powerful financial conglomerate controlling most of the United States economy, almost as powerful as the US government itself. At the top of the organization is the beautiful, smart and brave Ms. Cleo, the Group's young, talented Chairman, a blonde African-American who fought her way out of the slums.
Good thing she manages her company so well--it means she can handle the repair bill from that airplane crashing into her bedroom. With stolen artifacts, corporate kidnappings, and top-secret cyborg projects gone awry, her luck only gets worse from there. |
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The cover does seem to misrepresent her a bit, she's a bit darker in the manga chapters. She's also pretty entertaining. It would be interesting to see who's the killer.
Only 2 chapters of this manga have been english translated.
Well, on the flip-side, Egypt is in Africa, and the emigration you speak of happened many hundreds of years ago.
Which is to say, she's at least as African as she is American. After all, the "Americans" we're talking about have only been in America for 500 years at most. Unless she's part Cherokee or something.
But when we say "Africa" we usually exclude Egypt and treat it as the middle-east instead. And when one says "African-American", one usually just means "black" (which is evidenced in the number of times people in the U.S. of A. have slipped and called normal Africans "African Americans").
So really, what I want to say is, we have so many double-standards and the whole heap of terminology that we're using here is just a ridiculous pile of bull***t anyway. The ideas of race in this manga are maybe a bit ridiculous, but so are our own.
If anything, it looks hard to even pin her as Latino.
The last rulers of Egypt before its annexation by the Roman Empire, the Ptolemy Dynasty (which was Cleopatra's family), were of Greek ancestry, not native Egyptian, so they were whites. Cleopatra could have been of her darker complexion if a memeber of her family had married a native Egyptian...but the Ptolemy tended to, er, marry with their own blood (kinda like the Targaryen of ASOIAF), and her parents were both cousins and uncle-niece. Yeah.
Ok... wait a minute... if that is supposed to be Cleo on the cover... she does not look African-American at all... Blond yes, but she is a bit on the light side....