King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists

NBC 4 ^ | 4:03 pm PDT June 7, 2005

[Graybeard58]

So long as the "outraged" do not drool, let 'em rant and rage. That's their right. It is also my right to laugh at 'em

That's a good philosophy.

[Adder]

OMG...
Tell me again why stupid people are allowed to walk around?

What "color" was Nefertitti? We found her bust in the tomb....did some white devil rush in and switch the black bust for the white one?
What color are the people depicted in tomb paintings? If they are black they are so shown. But if they are Northern African, like modern Egyptians, they are so depicted.

I mean, jeez...what kind of idiots do we "listen" to?
At least the council wriggled out of it. Had it been taxpayer funded in anyway, I wonder if they would have?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Found among the treasures of King Tut was his foot stool. Carved on them were the enemies he constantly fought. There was the Asiatic and the Black African. Neither looked anything like Tut.
The Asiatics looked Semitic and had full beards, and the Africans had the large lips, the sloping foreheads, and "afros". You could tell which was which by simply looking at the engravings.
They were engraved on his foot stool to show he had his enemies under his feet.
Tut looked like Egyptians of today.

[pfony1]

I gather that it is now "correct" to say that the ancient tomb-painters, who used different hues to depict Egyptians and Nubians, were "racists".

[Puppage]

Actually, you have the right to be offended or outraged by anything you want; you just don't have the right to demand that the everybody else modify their behavior to cater to your pathological psychological need to whine be comfortable.

You're right, thanks for clarifying Sweet!

[Publius6961]

Ignorance and outrage trumps facts, now.
This, from the most productive and intellectual continent in the world to this day.

Right.

[SteveMcKing]

"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board.

This man defends gangsters for a living?

[anniegetyourgun]

"African-American activists...."

Do these people have real jobs? In fact, do they have real lives?

[MikefromOhio]

LOL...

[MinuteGal]

The man running our local gas station was pure Egyptian and muslim. He was born and raised in Egypt.

He was light-skinned in a bronze-ish way. His features were fine, not negroid in any way.

Leni

[Tempestuous]

And now, news from bizarre-o world.....


King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists. Critics Want Busts Depicting Tut As black Removed.

LOS ANGELES -- Anglo-Saxon-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 black are inaccurate.

The "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" 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 pitch black 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 black," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the Mediterranean basin of north Africa."

[AQGeiger]

"There is no evidence that King Tut was white," Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg told the board. "Egypt is on the continent of Africa."

This has got to be the worst, most laughable excuse for logic that I have ever heard or read.

[gridlock]

Oh, for crying out loud. If Ramses looked like this:

Then Tut was pretty darn white...

But it does not really matter, does it? Does the color of a slave-owning king of thousands of years ago reflect good or ill on Compton City Attorney Legrand Clegg or his constituents?

[redgolum]

Actually, look at the Coptic people. Tut probably looked more like them. The majority of people in Egypt now are descendants from the Malmuks (sp) that took over the area.

[Conspiracy Guy]

If this crap wasn't getting so old, it would be funnier..

[Publius6961]

"There is no evidence that King Tut was white,"

All of the busts, fashioned by three groups of researchers

Nothing personal, but when it deals with even a soft science, I'd rather go with the researchers.
In fact, I wish these clueless "protestors" would go to Egypt and make that silly assertion! Really. Literally.

[gov_bean_ counter]

It's pretty pathetic when even an Egyptian mummy arouses controversy.

Better this than the mummy that aroused Bill Clinton.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Move back to Germany. We don't need your kind here.

[MikefromOhio]

hmmm.....my Egyptian history is really rusty...

I love history...I am going to look into it....

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

NOOOO!!!

besides where I was born is now a golf course. I guess I could live in the trees....