King Tut exhibition 'racist' [no mention of Africa & suggests ancient Egyptian king was white]

new24 ^ | 5-21-2007 | Staff Writer

[bedolido]

Philadelphia - A travelling exhibition on King Tutankhamun drew about 50 protesters in Philadelphia who denounced the popular display as racist.

Molefi Asante, a professor of African-American studies at Temple University, led the demonstration on Sunday outside the Franklin Institute, claiming the exhibit has no mention of Africa and that it suggests the ancient Egyptian king was white.

[Disambiguator]

Steve Martin himself called the King his “favorite honkey”. If that doesn’t make him white, I don’t know what does.

You just used a racial slur. As someone of the "honkadelic" persuasion, I'm offended. Off to rehab with you!

:^)

[sergeantdave]

Let’s get every leftist mad - portray the ancient Egyptians as eating endangered scarabs while watching re-runs of Amos & Andy on their SUV ibises.

[HungarianGypsy]

Saw the model in the related article. He looked pretty brown to me. Oh. Was it that he wasn't black enough?

[aruanan]

King Tut exhibition 'racist' [no mention of Africa & suggests ancient Egyptian king was white]

Well, Molefi, Tut wasn't Negroid. Thanks for demonstrating to the world the worth of your "scholarship."

[ApplegateRanch]

jew meen entenshunul?...;^)

Sumtheeng lyk thatt.

Jew getta lion, n Ah’ll getta Pole, Hunny;
Jew getta lion, n Ah’ll getta Pole, baby;
Jew getta lion, n Ah’ll getta Pole,
N well go down tah de crahdad hole, hunny, baby mahn!

[teldon30]

The Egyptians always expressed the low opinions they had of their defeated enemies with little reticence, the Nubians were no exception
They are not valiant men, they are miserable, both tails and bodies [2]; my majesty saw it myself, it is no fable
From the Semna stela of Senusret III
W.M.Flinders Petrie A History of Egypt, Part One, p.189

[Clemenza]

LOL! And southern Illinois is known as “Little Egypt” and is also home to Alexandria and Thebes...

[X-Ecutioner]

Judging by the drawings, they look like dark brown blacks. The Bible rebukes the idea Mizraim is a white.

[jmcenanly]

Using CT scans and forensic modeling, one of the world’s leading anthropological sculptors, Elisabeth Daynes of Paris, was able to produce this sculpture of King Tutankhamun. The skin color was based on the tomb paintings and contemporary statues.

[SauronOfMordor]

My point was that, while not ‘white’ as some argue, or even what we call black African, Egyptians were also African, not matter what racial ‘shade’ people want to label them as.

There's a wide variation in Africa, just as there is in Asia. You have the Israelis, the Saudis, etc occupying southwest Asia, and the Vietnamese, Chinese, Koreans, etc occupying eastern Asia, and they look fairly different as humans go.

But realistically, the people who live on the shores of the Mediterranean have much more in common with each other, culturally and genetically, than they do with people far removed from the Mediterranean

[Zionist Conspirator]

In 1995 he was made a traditional king, Nana Okru Asante Peasah, Kyldomhene of Tafo, Akyem, Ghana.

So, does this mean he's a right wing monarchist?

[SauronOfMordor]

Judging by the drawings, they look like dark brown blacks. The Bible rebukes the idea Mizraim is a white.

If you look at the drawings of the Egyptian women, they are much lighter than the men. The men are tanned from being in the sun more than the women

American blacks are various shades of brown because most American blacks have various percentages of European ancestry in their genetic lines

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fiddlstix.

Molefi Asante, a professor of African-American studies at Temple University...

At least a couple of things wrong in that sentence...

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[Dustbunny]

Time to call for Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the ‘Justice Brothers”.

[John O]

Too funny. Well, it would be funnier if not for the fact that every fat white Italian communist not only thinks this but is regularly and worshipfully quoted by the New York Times, the newspaper of record. So it's burrowed into the liberal consciousness, sort of like chiggers.

I'm sorry you can't use that word. You have to call the chigroes now.

[Lee'sGhost]

“According to the drawings they made of themselves, they were White.”

Well, they must have been drawn by racist artists.

[albee]

RE: Picture of mummy on post #48

Geeee!

I don't know.

That mummy sure looks black to me!

[Little Ray]

Cleopatra was a Ptolemy - descended from Greek and Macedonian conquerers.

[X-Ecutioner]

Not all African blacks have extreme dark skin, flat broad noses and full lips. Anyway, didn’t King David call Egypt the land of Ham in Psalms?

[Drammach]

The dark red ochre for men and lighter red ochre for women only denoted that they were egyptian.
Nubians, Hittites, Desert tribes, the invading sea peoples, were all portrayed in standardized formats, not realistically representing what was probably a more diverse racial makeup of those groups.

Egyptian art wasn't concerned with accurate depiction of racial subtypes, they were meant to illustrate the glory and significant achievements of the pharaohs and their relationship to the gods.

Egyptian hierarchical art functions on the order /concept of group, not race or skin color.
In some cases, persons or gods / goddesses may be shown as green, blue, or yellow, indicating associations with the nile river, or the sun, respectively.
Likewise, gods and pharaohs were largest, goddesses and queens next in size, priests and warriors, commoners, slaves, etc...

Anyone that assumes skin color in egyptian art is an accurate representation of the figures or persons involved is greatly mistaken.