Demonstrators say King Tut exhibit depicts wrong skin color

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

[Moonman62]

"Ancient Egyptians from Memphis (Egypt) would have had to go to the back of the bus in Memphis, Tennessee, during the days of segregation," the Wellesley, Mass.-based author said in a telephone interview. "The Egyptians were kind of copper-colored."

[MissouriConservative]

""We're visual people, so whatever they throw at us, we're going to take it as a fact, when in reality it's just a theory," said demonstrator Asante Waa. "We're afraid of the implications that this recreation is going to have on kids, especially on black kids.""

Doesn't this one sentence contain a contradiction? She states that "when in reality it's just a theory" and then go on to say that she's afraid of the implication on black kids? In other words, it's not a theory to her, but a fact that Tut was black. This would seem to contradict her words about it being a theory.

The left just seems to contradict itself whenever it opens its mouth these days.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They think they're Arabs.

[sgtbono2002]

Lets put this in the proper light. I am not suggesting that white is more evolved than black. What I was and am asking is what happened. The Egyptions built the Pyramids they had boats that sailed all over the known world at the time. If they were black what happened in a thousand years that they stopped progressing and regressed?

[freedumb2003]

That is astounding.

Great catch parrot!

[VOA]

Demonstrators say King Tut exhibit depicts wrong skin color

Oh for the good old days...
...when a US tour by King Tut spawned a ladies T-shirt with two profiles
of King Tut and the caption:
"Keep Your Hands Off My Tuts"

But now we have the hyper-civility of political correctness.
And a lot less humor.

[FreedomCalls]

Ramses II had red hair.

[freedumb2003]

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

Wasn't thee a big flack a while ago when a white person born in South Africa insisted on being identified as African-American?

[RJS1950]

Tut, like most Egyptians today is mediteranean descent. The black color of the skin is due to the oils and spices applied during mummification. There were black rulers of ancient Egypt -- the Nubians. The Nubian empire conquered Egypt and ruled it for about 200 years and there are certainly people of black descent in Egypt today. For all of their politically correct wishful thinking Tut is not black and black Egyptians did not have wings and fly around the pyramids. Get a grip you twits out there. A large part of indigenous africans are white/olive skinned mediteraneans like the Egyptians, Moroccans, Algerians, Lybians whose ancestors have ALWAYS lived there.

[toddlintown]

Didn't we go through this nonsense a year or two ago?

[sweetliberty]

"Who the heck (except them) cares what color Tut's skin was?"

Well, I for one like things to be historically accurate to the greatest extent possible. Of course, if the racist PC elitists have their way, any access the population has to truth will purely accidental.

[sweetliberty]

Stunning likeness.

[Prime Choice]

Wasn't thee a big flack a while ago when a white person born in South Africa insisted on being identified as African-American?

Yup. And if memory serves, the final response on the matter was that they weren't "African" because their ancestry was Dutch.

[rlmorel]

Ask and ye shall receive...(sorry!)

Actually, ol' Tuttie is much cuter than Babs...dontcha think???

(make note to save barf animation for later...:)

[rwfromkansas]

He was from Egypt.

He wasn't black you stupid idiots.

He was brown.

[festus]

"Ancient Egyptians from Memphis (Egypt) would have had to go to the back of the bus in Memphis, Tennessee, during the days of segregation,"

Well sure. They'd have to do that today too though I'd wager you'd ship em underneath in baggage. I mean you rarely, even today, ride dead passengers on the bus especially with the living customers.

[GOPPachyderm]

Oh. Sorry for misunderstanding your post.

[operation clinton cleanup]

OK, KT was black. The Sphinx was obviously a white guy of European origin.

[BigCinBigD]

Those people are idiots.

[American in Israel]

The Copts were fair skinned. This is silly.