[echoBoomer]

Talk about whining over ANYTHING.

[MikefromOhio]

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

There is CERTAINLY no evidence that Tut was black either. Look at Egypt today. He was probably more Arab looking than anything else.

[Puppage]

You have the right to pursue happiness. You do NOT have the right NOT to be offended or, in this case.....outraged

[Conspiracy Guy]

What a bunch of loons.

[numberonepal]

Egypt is on the continent of Africa.

Yes, and does that make everyone there black? No, I don't think so. The "caucasoid North African" designation is most likely the correct one. He was most likely dark skinned with caucasoid features.

[shuckmaster]

ping

[GladesGuru]

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. ;-)

[IronJack]

It's pretty pathetic when even an Egyptian mummy arouses controversy. But in an age when there is nothing to unite a society, there is always plenty to fragment it.

[Brilliant]

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.

They are basically waging this fight so that they can add a one liner to a textbook for a college black history class.

[Rodney King]

Ugh. He was North African, which is not white, but neither is it black. All one has to do is look at any egyptian hyroglyphics (sp?) and see that the figures depicted are not a deep black.

[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".

[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?

[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?

[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.