King Tut Exhibit Outrages Activists

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

[SauronOfMordor]

Ask yourself why they are so outraged that he's not portrayed as black. You've really got to have a low self-image in order to think that you are somehow helping yourself by wasting your time trying to convince people that some long dead boy-king was black.

A big part of "Afro-centric" education is teaching that Egyptians were "black", thus making them "one of us".

I had a guy at work once who was going on about that. He was unhappy when I pointed out that, since there was no record of Egypt having contact with West Africa, it was unlikely there were Egyptians in his ancestry. OTOH, since I'm Italian, and there was a huge amount of commerce between Egypt and Rome, with Egyptian sailors having italian girlfriends, and Roman merchants bringing home Egyptian wives, I was much more likely to have Egyptian ancestry than he was.

[NRA1995]

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

Well, that just settles it then, Tut was black..../sarcasm

[Socratic]

I say, do a statue of him as a Ugangi with a Hottentot butt and THEN hear the reaction!

[OldEagle]

What evidence exists anywhere as to his hue? Does anybody really know how color "evolved"?

[squirt-gun]

No matter how much we all try in good faith, it is becoming increasingly obvious that a silk purse can't be produced from a sow's ear.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Pitch a tent in a sand trap near a water hazard and call it "lake front with beach". Sound more realtorish that way.

[MikefromOhio]

with scenic view :)

good idea!!

I am buying plane tickets right now!!

[Red Badger]

Thes demokratz will be the death of education in this country. Next they'll want them to show how the black africans had mastered flight 5000 years ago and should be shown flying around the pyramids in textbooks..........

[Strategerist]

Does anybody really know how color "evolved"?

Yep, it's directly correlated with the length of time a given group lived in an area with a lot of sunlight (the exceptions, such as Eskimos, etc. are because eskimos haven't lived in the artic all that long.

[mewzilla]

Maybe this is how Ward Churchill can call himself a Native American...

[NRA1995]

My favorite myth about the Egyptians of old is that they were peaceful blacks who had wings and flew around the pyramids like guardian angels until the white man came along, cut off their wings and enslaved them. Of course, the pyramids and sphinxes had sprung up all by themselves because the Egyptians would never enslave anyone.....

[gov_bean_ counter]

A big part of "Afro-centric" education is teaching that Egyptians were "black", thus making them "one of us".

Much like teaching that 90% of everything ever invented by white people was actually invented by black people who never got the credit for their work.

[theophilusscribe]

So is the man running Egypt . . .

[Publius6961]

Well, then, you just be careful and not read the version pushed by that nutcase a few years ago, who claimed not only a written language in sub-Saharan Africa, but a "University" in Timbuktu, complete with a library to rival Alexandria...

Both of which disappeared without the slightest trace or evidence. All based on a "speculative" book by a nutcase Frenchman. I have it, and I wish I could remember the title. A book right up there with The Hollow Earth.

Avoid that one.

[Red Badger]

Next they'll claim Cleopatra was black..........oops, already done that!.........

[MikefromOhio]

don't worry, even if I did run across it, I am pretty sure I would notice some irregularities :)

[R. Scott]

King Tutankhamun was the 12th King of the 18th dynasty – well before the Nubians of the 25th dynasty.

[DCPatriot]

Well, consider they failed in their attempts to make Jesus black...so why not try for King Tut? ;^)

[carumba]

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 is funny. We have the mummy. Its skin is preserved. Lets take a peek, shall we?

[skimbell]

...I mean, jeez...what kind of idiots do we "listen" to?

Does the 9-11 Fireman memorial sound familiar here? I wonder if the left was the driving force behind that fiasco too?