Dr. Umar Calls Out Elon Musk For Criticizing Lupita Nyong’o Playing Helen of Troy in “The Odyssey”

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:06]Yeah, I don't believe it. I definitely don't believe it. But I do want to ask you about this movie, The Odyssey. You had an issue with it, right?

[00:00:14]>> Man, I remember we had to read The Odyssey back in high school. So, The Odyssey and the Iliad are two epic poems written by Homer. Homer is considered one of the fathers of Greek culture, Greek literature. He's considered the first real teacher of ancient Greece.

[00:00:33]He just like all of the Greco Roman philosophers before and after him, they were influenced by or studied in Egypt.

[00:00:43]Pythagoras studied in Egypt. The Pythagorean theorem, the Pythagorarian theory is not even his. It was stolen from Africa. Okay. Hypocrates the father of medicine said Imoteep taught him everything he knew. He considered Imoteep a god. Socrates was killed. He drank the himmck for him for for teaching ancient Egyptian gods in Greece. Although he never went to Egypt, he studied the information and studied under the scholars who came from Egypt.

[00:01:19]Aristotle never went to Egypt, but he was Alexander the Great's personal tutor who conquered Egypt. So, he had access to the books of Egypt. The entire Egyptian, excuse me, the entire Greek culture and civilization art was influenced, if not outright, borrowed, from ancient black Egypt. In fact, Homer in the Iliad in the Odyssey, he pays homage to the Egyptian who he called Ethiopians. Ethiopia in Greek means burnt face or blackface. So that's proof that not only were the Egyptians black, but he had tremendous respect for them.

[00:02:01]In fact, Homer said that the Egyptians were the preferred of God, the blessed of God. Remember the Greeks in the Romans art thought black skin was a sign of divinity.

[00:02:13]They thought black skin was a sign of divinity. And they believed that black Egyptians, black Ethiopians, black Sudin were blessed by God because of the great civilization that they built. The great sciences. Remember we gave Greece astrology. We gave Greece mathematics.

[00:02:34]We gave Greece art, architecture, spirituality, medicine through imoteep.

[00:02:39]We gave them everything. Art. We gave him everything. So for Elon Musk, because Elon Musk is one of the main people, and remember I debated his father last year at the Oxford Union University in London. Okay, excuse me, outside of London in Oxford, UK, which is considered the number one university in the world, by the way. But anyhow, Elon Musk has a problem with Leita playing Helen of Troy. But here's what I'm saying. art. If ancient Greece is indebted to Egypt for its culture and civilization, they said this themselves cuz remember, white supremacy don't exist yet. White supremacy don't exist yet. So the Greeks admitted they borrowed from the Egyptians. They admitted they went to Egypt and studied Thales and Pythagoras and Plato. They admitted they went to Egypt. So it was no secret that they borrowed heavily from Egyptian civilization. So why is Elon Musk upset if Lepita plays Helen of Troy? She got a right to play Helen of Troy cuz there would be no Troy without ancient Egypt art. They've done excavations in Greece where they found the skeletons and the skin and the hair of black Egyptians and Ethiopians in Greece 1,400 years ago. are 1,400 years, excuse me, 1,400 years before Christ.

[00:04:10]Before Christ. So if you go 2,000 plus 14, that's 3,400 years ago. Art, they found Africans, the skeletons and remains of Africans in ancient Greece. And let me give you this art.

[00:04:25]Do you know that there are some people who would argue that Greece was not even a white civilization? They didn't look like Europeans. They were not blondhaired, blue eyes. They had olive skin with dark hair, bro. Some would argue that the Greeks were a mixed race African people, not A- Kingdom, but they appeared to look like a mixed race African people, bro. So, how can Elon Musk be upset when there is clear evidence of African DNA within Greek society? Look, here's my thing.

[00:05:04]The white folks art. Here's my thing.

[00:05:07]They stole our god's art. Ammon Rob became Zeus. Hthor became Aphrodite.

[00:05:12]Horus became Apollo. Tahudi became Hermes or Thought. Deer became Isis.

[00:05:19]They stole all of our gods and changed their name. What is Elon Musk talking about? And here's my thing, Art.

[00:05:27]Every Jesus, every Jesus movie, he's white.

[00:05:31]Every Abraham movie, he's white. Every Noah movies, he's white. Every Moses movie, he's white. Every single prophet in the Bible is cast as a white man or an A-rap when they make these Bible movies are. So why is it okay for you to lie about what Jesus looked like?

[00:05:52]Everybody know Jesus was not a Caucasian. We also know he was African.

[00:05:57]You saw when the president of Russia opened up the Roman cathedral and showed you all them black images of Jesus and the 12 disciples. We know Jesus was black. But they make every movie of Jesus as a Neanderthal. But you going to get mad with Leita playing Helen of Troy as long as Jesus is white. And Mel Gibson is working on another Passion of the Christ movie art. Mel Gibson is working on another Passion of the Christ movie. As long as Jesus and all the prophets of the Bible are white in Hollywood, African people reserve the white to play any white character we want. Until you give us back our black Jesus, we are not going to give you back your possibly white Helen of Troy.