Posted on 05/21/2007 12:35:05 PM PDT by bedolido
Philadelphia - A travelling exhibition on King Tutankhamun drew about 50 protesters in Philadelphia who denounced the popular display as racist.
Molefi Asante, a professor of African-American studies at Temple University, led the demonstration on Sunday outside the Franklin Institute, claiming the exhibit has no mention of Africa and that it suggests the ancient Egyptian king was white.
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MOST blacks who are Egyptian in todays Egypt will tell you the same thing. King Tut was a black boy. Plus there is still an Upper and Lower Egypt. Upper is Sudan and lower is the Macedonian/Arabic Egypt. The Bible says Mizraim is the son of Ham. Mizraim in Hebrew means two nations.
I realize all that Black Athena business is plumes of Osiris -— i.e., bullfeathers.
Nevertheless, most scholars are satisfied that the great royal wife of Amenhotep III, Tiyi, was the grandmother of Tut.
And if you search for her image you will find she was obviously of Nubian, or Negro, or African, ancestry.
Wow, you mean these idiots do not understand that Egypt is part of AFRICA?
This is college?
King Tut was pre-Alexander
Yes, but Cleopatra wasn’t.........
Good catch... however, he may have called it that after one of Noah's sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth).
If I remember my Bible, Ham was the one whose decendants build the tower of babel... and was cursed with some sort of sign by God for building it)
King Tut looked like (a very young) Barbra Streisand?..........
No wonder they had to get out of Egypt! It wasn't kosher!......
His nose is too small (someone had to say it... might as well be me).
Well, he was only 19 or 20 years old. Hadn't had time to fully ripen yet.........
Now I have to clean my monitor... coffee all over it!!! Great line... wished I'd thought of it (I'm sure I'll use it in the future)
Believe me - there is nothing on earth like a fat white Italian communist telling you what it truly means to be black. Nothing.
P.S.: I saw this Philadelphia show. It’s fabulous and I recommend it to everyone. Not as good as the Met’s show back in the 1970’s (the “mask” that the event is using in its publicity is not in the exhibition, but it’s very good, anyway.)
That's as likely a possibility as the other. After all, there are pyramids in Mexico. ;-)
any chance it'll come to Boise, Idaho? or anything will come to Boise, Idaho...
well teh Boise State Broncos beat the Oklahoma Sooners in the Fiesta Bowl... one of the best college bowl games ever... according to John Madden.
Sorry got sidetracked... what is the show you saw and where can a person see it?
Protest marching is their job. The question is who pays them?
Why not? Teh-ray-zah is African.
Thinking the same thing here. Most likely, like many countries on the continent of Africa and in the Middle East, natives came in every color from pale to blue-black.
And if there is no mention of Africa, that’s a little odd but not terribly significant, IMO. Guess they figured everyone already knew that..? I saw an exhibition at the Smithsonian years ago on Indian/Mayan/Aztec civilization and the Spanish conquest. They didn’t *SAY* the soldiers were from Spain..lol.
Come to think of it, they didn’t tell me the Mayans or Spaniard were black or brown or red either....
I guess facts just irritate some people.
An Egyptian display with *no mention of Africa*? Where’d this guy get his education?
Look closely at the Tut mask.Are you telling me that by modern defintion that that looks like a WHITE man.Tut’s mom,Tiy,was very defintely Negroid.Look at any busts of her.
The problem with the Afrocentrists is that they get the Egyptians often mixed up with”pure”Negroid types such as Nigerians or Liberians.By this defintion,Egypt can not be called”Black”.
Yet it certainly was not a “white”nation either but a polyglot of Caucasina,Negroid and Asiatic peoples who mingled for thousands of years.
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