Posted on 06/08/2005 4:49:47 AM PDT by echoBoomer
King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists. Critics Want Busts Depicting Tut As White Removed.
LOS ANGELES -- African-American activists criticized the Board of Supervisors Tuesday for allowing a King Tut exhibition at the county Museum of Art, saying that renderings of the boy king as white are inaccurate.
The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs" exhibit opens a four-city, nationwide tour at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on June 16. Among the installations are three busts of Tut II reconstructed from the boy king's mummified corpse.
All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers, show Tut as a caucasoid North African. That representation led to Tuesday's protest by about a dozen speakers, who asked that the busts be removed from the exhibit.
"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa."
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Africans south of the Sahara and West of Ethiopia are Negroids, quite distinct from both the noorth Africans (a mix of Semitics, Phoenicians, Berbers, Moors, Latins, Vandals, etc.) and Ethiopian-Somalis
yeah but does that look even remotely black or white?
nope...its a shade of brown.
Honestly I dont care about it. The guy has been dead for 4000 years....
yeah, I knew.........
well Jesus wasn't black, or white (Indo-European), but Semitic (brown)
This report doesn't explain very much. Is the objection that the busts were in white plaster and unpainted? Were the busts painted to look white skinned? Is it a matter of the features? What exactly is the objection? In Egyptian paintings on tomb walls and monuments, the ancient Egyptians seemed to make a clear color and feature distinction between themselves and black skinned "negroid" Africans, and other groups they enslaved.
What you see in that headshot on the National Geographic is about as close to the living thing you are going to see...a very realistic representation in my humble opinion.
Alkhin
a former anthropology student who spent a bit of time on forensics.
from http://muhammadfarms.com/Works_contents.htm
Amen: The Secret Waters of The Great Pyramid. (1988) 200 pages, 29 illustrations, 2 appendices, bibliography and index.
The pyramids were not tombs and the "pharaohs" were not "fat cats". They were black and very concerned about the lives of their people and not their egos.
This book solves some of the greatest mysteries of all times;
1. Who built the pyramids and sphinx?
2. Why did they build them?
3. How did they build them?
4. Why have these facts been kept a secret until today?
We wrote this book in 1988 and then went to Egypt in 1989 to verify and document its validity. In 1988 many Black people did not even know what a pyramid was and those so-called experts among us told people that Dr. Ridgely Mu'min was crazy. Well, "crazy" or not, truth in this case is indeed stranger than fiction. The everyday truths and understanding of the Kemetic people would place them in the categories of "gods" as compared to the mind of so-called modern man. No brag, just fact. Read it for yourself, then think.
I recently, Nov. 15, 2001, did a lecture at N.C.A&T in Greensboro, "A Systems Approach for Determining Your Future", which is highlighted below. One of the students in the audience e-mailed me this link, http://www.guardians.net/hawass/osiris1.htm, where they show pictures of underground tunnels filled with water in what they call "The Osiris Shaft". It seems that some of the students at that lecture took my advice and began to study things not required by their university teachers (smile).
These tunnels were once a part of a vast underground water system connecting the pyramids to cities throughout ancient Egypt. The Romans were not the first to build aqueducts, but to attribute this type of technology to Black Africans would destroy some of the basic tenants of "white supremacy". Truth about our past has tremendous political implications.
They are whiter than my typical German/English/Choctaw American butt.
LOL
here is a question, what is, exactly, white?
I personally hold the belief that the only real "white" people are Albinos :)
Yup. Pretty 'delicate' looking. I think I read that the portrait that I posted shows him at about age 18. He died very young...even for that period.
Basic black for day wear, shiny for tripping the light fantastic.
(Jack H. Clement)
Well, he's not very handsome to look at
Aw! he's shaggy and eats like a hog
And he's always killin' my chickens
That dirty Egg-Suckin' Dog.
Egg-Suckin' Dog
I'm gonna stomp your head in the ground
If you don't stay out of my hen house
You dirty Egg-Suckin' hound.
Now if he don't stop eatin' my eggs up
Though I'm not a real bad guy
I'm goin' to get my rifle and send him
To that great chicken house in the sky.
Egg-Suckin' Dog
You're always a-hangin around
But you'd better stay out of my hen house
You dirty Egg-Suckin' Dog hound.
Recorded by Johnny Cash
Copyright Jack H. Clement
It's a light brown. Not black at all. Not white either.
And one can unwrap a mummy and see one directly:
Here's Ramses II. He's the Pharaoh Moses stood before and said "Let my people go." He's also a light brown (where's he's not moldy) with reddish brown straight hair.
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