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King Tut exhibition 'racist' [no mention of Africa & suggests ancient Egyptian king was white]
new24 ^ | 5-21-2007 | Staff Writer

Posted on 05/21/2007 12:35:05 PM PDT by 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.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: africa; ancientegypt; blackathena; blackpharaoh; blackpharaohs; blacksparkwhitefire; egyptian; exhibition; godsgravesglyphs; king; molefiasante; museum; racist; tut
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To: SauronOfMordor

MOST blacks who are Egyptian in todays Egypt will tell you the same thing. King Tut was a black boy. Plus there is still an Upper and Lower Egypt. Upper is Sudan and lower is the Macedonian/Arabic Egypt. The Bible says Mizraim is the son of Ham. Mizraim in Hebrew means two nations.


121 posted on 05/22/2007 5:52:59 AM PDT by X-Ecutioner
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To: bedolido

I realize all that Black Athena business is plumes of Osiris -— i.e., bullfeathers.
Nevertheless, most scholars are satisfied that the great royal wife of Amenhotep III, Tiyi, was the grandmother of Tut.
And if you search for her image you will find she was obviously of Nubian, or Negro, or African, ancestry.


122 posted on 05/22/2007 6:08:57 AM PDT by Graymatter (FREDeralist)
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To: bedolido

Wow, you mean these idiots do not understand that Egypt is part of AFRICA?

This is college?


123 posted on 05/22/2007 6:11:50 AM PDT by Porterville (illegal gay mexicans are sneaking over our border and unplugging our brain dead women)
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To: Red Badger

King Tut was pre-Alexander


124 posted on 05/22/2007 6:13:09 AM PDT by Porterville (illegal gay mexicans are sneaking over our border and unplugging our brain dead women)
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To: Porterville

Yes, but Cleopatra wasn’t.........


125 posted on 05/22/2007 6:28:49 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: X-Ecutioner
Anyway, didn’t King David call Egypt the land of Ham in Psalms?yes he did... (I googled it) The land of Ham: a synonym for Egypt.

Good catch... however, he may have called it that after one of Noah's sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth).

If I remember my Bible, Ham was the one whose decendants build the tower of babel... and was cursed with some sort of sign by God for building it)

126 posted on 05/22/2007 6:28:57 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: jmcenanly

King Tut looked like (a very young) Barbra Streisand?..........


127 posted on 05/22/2007 6:30:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: X-Ecutioner
...King David call Egypt the land of Ham in Psalms?

No wonder they had to get out of Egypt! It wasn't kosher!......

128 posted on 05/22/2007 6:31:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: Red Badger
King Tut looked like (a very young) Barbra Streisand?..........

His nose is too small (someone had to say it... might as well be me).

129 posted on 05/22/2007 6:31:56 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: bedolido
His nose is too small (someone had to say it... might as well be me).

Well, he was only 19 or 20 years old. Hadn't had time to fully ripen yet.........

130 posted on 05/22/2007 6:34:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: Disambiguator
FR doesn’t have an Ebonics spellchecker

Now I have to clean my monitor... coffee all over it!!! Great line... wished I'd thought of it (I'm sure I'll use it in the future)

131 posted on 05/22/2007 6:39:05 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: SteveMcKing

Believe me - there is nothing on earth like a fat white Italian communist telling you what it truly means to be black. Nothing.


Unless it’s a near-dead white liberal male who tells you that you are not a real woman because you vote Republican.

P.S.: I saw this Philadelphia show. It’s fabulous and I recommend it to everyone. Not as good as the Met’s show back in the 1970’s (the “mask” that the event is using in its publicity is not in the exhibition, but it’s very good, anyway.)


132 posted on 05/22/2007 6:40:31 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Gideon Reader
Tut be a brother?
NO! He was Hispanic.
And ALL of the land of the two crown belong to Azlatan!
Viva LaRaza!!!!

That's as likely a possibility as the other. After all, there are pyramids in Mexico. ;-)

133 posted on 05/22/2007 6:55:05 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: miss marmelstein
P.S.: I saw this Philadelphia show. It’s fabulous and I recommend it to everyone.

any chance it'll come to Boise, Idaho? or anything will come to Boise, Idaho...

well teh Boise State Broncos beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl... one of the best college bowl games ever... according to John Madden.

Sorry got sidetracked... what is the show you saw and where can a person see it?

134 posted on 05/22/2007 6:59:36 AM PDT by bedolido (I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
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To: lainie

Protest marching is their job. The question is who pays them?


135 posted on 05/22/2007 7:04:38 AM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: bedolido
As a matter of fact did not Ramses the Great(sp) have red hair?
136 posted on 05/22/2007 7:23:25 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the US Senate)
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To: GOPyouth

Why not? Teh-ray-zah is African.


137 posted on 05/22/2007 7:25:28 AM PDT by Jaded ("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
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To: mnehrling

Thinking the same thing here. Most likely, like many countries on the continent of Africa and in the Middle East, natives came in every color from pale to blue-black.

And if there is no mention of Africa, that’s a little odd but not terribly significant, IMO. Guess they figured everyone already knew that..? I saw an exhibition at the Smithsonian years ago on Indian/Mayan/Aztec civilization and the Spanish conquest. They didn’t *SAY* the soldiers were from Spain..lol.

Come to think of it, they didn’t tell me the Mayans or Spaniard were black or brown or red either....


138 posted on 05/22/2007 7:35:54 AM PDT by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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To: bedolido

I guess facts just irritate some people.

An Egyptian display with *no mention of Africa*? Where’d this guy get his education?


139 posted on 05/22/2007 7:41:55 AM PDT by ukie55
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To: massgopguy

Look closely at the Tut mask.Are you telling me that by modern defintion that that looks like a WHITE man.Tut’s mom,Tiy,was very defintely Negroid.Look at any busts of her.
The problem with the Afrocentrists is that they get the Egyptians often mixed up with”pure”Negroid types such as Nigerians or Liberians.By this defintion,Egypt can not be called”Black”.
Yet it certainly was not a “white”nation either but a polyglot of Caucasina,Negroid and Asiatic peoples who mingled for thousands of years.


140 posted on 05/22/2007 7:42:22 AM PDT by Riverman94610
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