Then Tut was pretty darn white...
But it does not really matter, does it? Does the color of a slave-owning king of thousands of years ago reflect good or ill on Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg or his constituents?
Posted on 06/08/2005 4:49:47 AM PDT by echoBoomer
King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists. Critics Want Busts Depicting Tut As White Removed.
LOS ANGELES -- African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate.
The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse.
All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a caucasoid North African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit.
"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa."
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What a bunch of loons.
Yes, and does that make everyone there black? No, I don't think so. The "caucasoid North African" designation is most likely the correct one. He was most likely dark skinned with caucasoid features.
Using that logic, then wouldn't any native-born U.S. citizen calling him or herself African-American be North American instead?
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So long as the "outraged" do not drool, let 'em rant and rage. That's their right. It is also my right to laugh at 'em. ;-)
It's pretty pathetic when even an Egyptian mummy arouses controversy. But in an age when there is nothing to unite a society, there is always plenty to fragment it.
Logic? What logic?
yeah or Native American, one or the two :)
that would make me German then, as I was born in Stuttgart when my dad was stationed over there....
Ask yourself why they are so outraged that he's not portrayed as black. You've really got to have a low self-image in order to think that you are somehow helping yourself by wasting your time trying to convince people that some long dead boy-king was black.
They are basically waging this fight so that they can add a one liner to a textbook for a college black history class.
hows it going?
LOL. Good point!
Nazi!
Actually, you have the right to be offended or outraged by anything you want; you just don't have the right to demand that the everybody else modify their behavior to cater to your pathological psychological need to whine be comfortable.
possibly.
When you blend the 2, its probably more in lines with what Arabs look like today......
Certainly their logic is failing. I hope the museum tells them to shove it.
Busy as heck but doing great. How about you?
Ugh. He was North African, which is not white, but neither is it black. All one has to do is look at any egyptian hyroglyphics (sp?) and see that the figures depicted are not a deep black.
That's a good philosophy.
OMG...
Tell me again why stupid people are allowed to walk around?
What "color" was Nefertitti? We found her bust in the tomb....did some white devil rush in and switch the black bust for the white one?
What color are the people depicted in tomb paintings? If they are black they are so shown. But if they are Northern African, like modern Egyptians, they are so depicted.
I mean, jeez...what kind of idiots do we "listen" to?
At least the council wriggled out of it. Had it been taxpayer funded in anyway, I wonder if they would have?
Found among the treasures of King Tut was his foot stool. Carved on them were the enemies he constantly fought. There was the Asiatic and the Black African. Neither looked anything like Tut.
The Asiatics looked Semitic and had full beards, and the Africans had the large lips, the sloping foreheads, and "afros". You could tell which was which by simply looking at the engravings.
They were engraved on his foot stool to show he had his enemies under his feet.
Tut looked like Egyptians of today.
I gather that it is now "correct" to say that the ancient tomb-painters, who used different hues to depict Egyptians and Nubians, were "racists".
You're right, thanks for clarifying Sweet!
Right.
This man defends gangsters for a living?
Do these people have real jobs? In fact, do they have real lives?
LOL...
He was light-skinned in a bronze-ish way. His features were fine, not negroid in any way.
Leni
And now, news from bizarre-o world.....
King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists. Critics Want Busts Depicting Tut As black Removed.
LOS ANGELES -- Anglo-Saxon-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as black are inaccurate.
The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse.
All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a pitch black African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit.
"There is no evidence that King Tut was black," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the Mediterranean basin of north Africa."
This has got to be the worst, most laughable excuse for logic that I have ever heard or read.
Then Tut was pretty darn white...
But it does not really matter, does it? Does the color of a slave-owning king of thousands of years ago reflect good or ill on Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg or his constituents?
If this crap wasn't getting so old, it would be funnier..
All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers
Nothing personal, but when it deals with even a soft science, I'd rather go with the researchers.
In fact, I wish these clueless "protestors" would go to Egypt and make that silly assertion! Really. Literally.
Better this than the mummy that aroused Bill Clinton.
Move back to Germany. We don't need your kind here.
hmmm.....my Egyptian history is really rusty...
I love history...I am going to look into it....
LOL
NOOOO!!!
besides where I was born is now a golf course. I guess I could live in the trees....
A big part of "Afro-centric" education is teaching that Egyptians were "black", thus making them "one of us".
I had a guy at work once who was going on about that. He was unhappy when I pointed out that, since there was no record of Egypt having contact with West Africa, it was unlikely there were Egyptians in his ancestry. OTOH, since I'm Italian, and there was a huge amount of commerce between Egypt and Rome, with Egyptian sailors having italian girlfriends, and Roman merchants bringing home Egyptian wives, I was much more likely to have Egyptian ancestry than he was.
Well, that just settles it then, Tut was black..../sarcasm
I say, do a statue of him as a Ugangi with a Hottentot butt and THEN hear the reaction!
What evidence exists anywhere as to his hue? Does anybody really know how color "evolved"?
No matter how much we all try in good faith, it is becoming increasingly obvious that a silk purse can't be produced from a sow's ear.
Pitch a tent in a sand trap near a water hazard and call it "lake front with beach". Sound more realtorish that way.
with scenic view :)
good idea!!
I am buying plane tickets right now!!
Thes demokratz will be the death of education in this country. Next they'll want them to show how the black africans had mastered flight 5000 years ago and should be shown flying around the pyramids in textbooks..........
Yep, it's directly correlated with the length of time a given group lived in an area with a lot of sunlight (the exceptions, such as Eskimos, etc. are because eskimos haven't lived in the artic all that long.
Maybe this is how Ward Churchill can call himself a Native American...
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