Demonstrators say King Tut exhibit depicts wrong skin color

http://www.centredaily.com ^ | Dec. 17, 2005 | MACOLLVIE JEAN-FRANCOIS

[CaptRon]

There was a thread here a couple of days ago that said the gene for skin color has been found.

Should be simple enough to settle this now to the satisfaction of anyone for whom this question is all that important.

[JohnBovenmyer]

IIRC some of the mummies of pharoahs have been found to have red hair.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sobering, but very, very persuasive.

But, of course, it is easier to claim racist politics NOW, rather than rely on the actual records of the people who were recording THEIR heritage at the time that history was (literally) being drawn.

[digger48]

Is that from National Geographic? I remember seeing that recreation somewhere.

[Bernard Marx]

I noticed this earlier but decided to pass. Now I have to respond. In case it comes up on your Jeopardy appearance, olivine is a volcanic mineral, generally yellowish-green. When it's transparent and of gem quality it's called peridot (pear-uh-doe) and was known to the ancients as chrysolite. Interestingly, the most famous source for it is St. John's Island in the Red Sea near the Egyptian coast. It's also found in meteorites called pallasites and is the only non-organic gemstone found in Hawaii.

[Prime Choice]

Isn't that odd. When the black people insist that they're "African-American," I ask them if Americans of Egyptian, Moroccan and Libyan descent should also be called "African-Americans" because their countries of origin are clearly in Africa.

"No! And you're a racist!" is their only reply.

I love it when race-baiting asshats react irrationally to reality.

[digger48]

I know, I know....read the caption, d48, read the caption before you post. geez

[sgtbono2002]

If Tut was black, and I sure dont know what color he was. What happened to blacks? How come they retro Darwin'ed? If black people ruled Egypt what happened to them? Now they cant even rule South Africa without starving half the population. Is there such a thing as reverse evolvement? Egypt was a powerful country , There is no such thing as a powerful black country today. What Happened?

[joesnuffy]

After a couple of hundred years or so ..time, that great equalizer,(and bacteria)...make everyone pretty much equal.

Basically in 50 yrs or so me and Arnold Swartzenegger are gonna look pretty much the same. :)

[Bernard Marx]

does the computer-generated likeness of Tut bear a striking resemblance to Babs Streisand?

Yes, and to Boy George.

[joesnuffy]

[SauronOfMordor]

Sometimes they did. Ancient Egypt was a multiracial society. There were many blacks from Nubia directly to the south.

And over a few thousand years, different groups were on top at different times

And regardless of what any afrocentric revisionist tells you, Cleopatra was not black. She was Greek/Macedonian

[Alouette]

GAY!!

[isrul]

Did some folks get mixed up and think this was a Tookie exhibit?

[Bon mots]

Hey, you know what the best part about that whole protest was?

Nobody missed work!

[Riverman94610]

Tut's lineage?Ahkanenton was his dad and Queen Tiy was his mom.
Tiy was a Nubian woman and most defintely"Negroid"in appearance.Tut more favors his father but if you want to get picky then there IS some crediblity to the claim that Tut was"black",although that term menat something totally different to the ancient Egyptians than it does in modern America.

[Revolting cat!]

One of the few remaining photographs of King Tut:

[GOPPachyderm]

I raised the point on an evolution debate that it is racist where it was thoroughly derided by pro-evolutionary posters. Your post referencing "retro Darwin'ed" demonstrates that the idea that white is more evolved than black is an outcome of the evolution theory.

I think evolution is racist and I reject it. Each of us, black and white and all the colors between, are created in the image of God.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The Left must certainly consider the African-descended peoples of the world too pathetic to act on these rightwing racial supremacist "we invented civilization" fantasies, or else it wouldn't give them its blessing.

The fascist movements of the last century did not arise among the leading nations but in nations long divided (Germany, Italy) or isolated from the rest of the world (Japan) and thus reacting against an inferiority complex. One can't help but wonder if the Left would continue to impute "honorary leftism" to such otherwise rightwing attitudes if a genuine fascist pan-African movement were to arise.