[jocon307]

Where does this Egyptian=black thing come from? Modern day Egyptians aren’t black.

[Talisker]

Where does this Egyptian=black thing come from? Modern day Egyptians aren’t black.

Yeah, but they get to play blacks in the White House.

[PUGACHEV]

Except for a short year interregnum of Pharaohs from Nubia, the neither ancient Egyptians nor thier Pharaohs were black. For proof, look at some of the paintings found in King Tut's tomb. It was quite common for pharoahs to depict themselves as great conquerors of other tribes and nations, whether it was true or not. To establish the Pharaoh’s dominion over these other races, the artists were careful to depict ethnic traits in their renderings of the conquered people, even to the point of creating what today we would consider racial stereotypes. In King Tut's tomb are paintings of Tut with a rod in his hand and the warriors of many races tumbling before him, among them black warriors with curly hair and negroid features so exaggerated as to put a minstrel show to shame.