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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Sorry to be so late responding.
Domestic goddess time.
You acerbic.
Your wit has a little bit of an edge.
Only a fellow smart a$$ would notice.
So is Libya. Is Muhamar Qadaffi black? Didn't think so.
the racists crawled out from under the rocks.
I'm acerbic and esoteric.
But if the races were reversed, you can bet the Lefties would call him "Legrand Leagle".
He was black, no doubt about it. Michael Jackson can probabaly trace his ancestry directly from King Tut, with a bit of help from his Black Muslim "security people". Yet, to look at him you may mistake him for white, also. Runs in the family, I guess.Bwaaahahahaha!
hat was SUPPOSED to be "Legrand Kleagle".
A cursory glance at hyroglyphics show distinctions between races.
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