Sunny Hostin MELTDOWN Over BACKLASH Against WOKE Odyssey

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]Lupita Nyong'o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister. Wait, what? What?

[00:00:05]Is the most beautiful woman in the world. So, he did confirm it. Okay, there it is. Playing Helen of Troy, whose beauty was unparalleled, a woman who was definitely white, is going to be played by Lupita Nyong'o.

[00:00:19]And I've got nothing against Lupita, but I do have a problem with the complete rewriting of history.

[00:00:24]>> Racism rears its ugly head often on um and and [clears throat] more often now um than ever um I think in our country.

[00:00:33]But, if you are a student of history, you know that scholars have debated for decades the extent to which Greek mythology and civilization were influenced by ancient Egypt and North Africa. It is very clear um that Andromeda is described as an Ethiopian princess. We have Othello, the Moor. The Greeks um this idea was also explored in a book called Black Athena. I think people should read it, which argues that classical Greek culture is heavily indebted to Afro-Asiatic and Near Eastern roots. I actually taught Greek mythology to eighth graders.

[00:01:10]>> Uh-huh. And so, I covered this.

[00:01:12]>> Fun fact.

[00:01:13]>> So, people that are saying that Helen of Troy could not possibly be played by a black woman don't know history.

[00:01:20]>> is First of all, that book came out in 1987, and the reason there's so much argument between scholars is because this guy came up with a theory that was pretty much based on wishful thinking.

[00:01:30]It's pretty simple when it comes down to it. There has never been any art or anything like that that has ever been discovered that depicts Greeks specifically as black. And Greeks knew what black people were. And how do we know this? Because as much as she wants to talk about Greeks talking about an Ethiopian princess, she's leaving out a key point. They mainly referred to Ethiopians as burnt-faced people. So, they knew what black people were, and they never depicted their own people as black. So, case closed. Helen of Troy was not black.