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King Tut exhibition 'racist' [no mention of Africa & suggests ancient Egyptian king was white]
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| 5-21-2007
| Staff Writer
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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: africa; ancientegypt; blackathena; blackpharaoh; blackpharaohs; blacksparkwhitefire; egyptian; exhibition; godsgravesglyphs; king; molefiasante; museum; racist; tut
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To: mnehrling
The Egyptians didn't always use true colors when depicting a person, especially if that person was the subject of the painting. Usually, the Egyptians followed a simple stylistic convention of rendering a male in a reddish hue and a woman with a yellow skin tone. But if they wanted to, the Egyptian artist might color a mythic figure blue or black to show their connection with the sky or the night. Sometimes, as an example, you'll see pharaohs rendered in green, the color of lush crops, to show his life-giving attributes.
But so far as I've seen, when the Egyptians wanted to make a point about a subject's race, they knew what colors to use. Normally, you find this in paintings depicting the pharaoh or his troops crushing the Nubians or the Hittites, or some other race they warred with. In depicting blacks, the Egyptians were almost comical in exaggerating negroid features: rounded heads, curly hair, triangular faces. Follow the link below to a picture of Tut smiting the Nubians, taken from small box found in his tomb. Clearly the Egyptian artist knew how to distinguish King Tut from the Africans.
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/um/painting01.jpg
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:16:42 PM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: Duffboy
FR doesn’t have an Ebonics spellchecker, so I just used the misspelled (as it is mis-pronunciated*) version of the word “ask”.
*intentional misspelling, okay? Sheesh.
Comment #63 Removed by Moderator
To: bedolido
Uncanny resemblance to Angelina Jolie especially in the lips.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:25:38 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: GOPyouth
Can a blonde hair blue eyed South African select "African American?" My hubby had a South African co-worker over 10 years ago who actually did that and the interviewers got the shock of their lives when she walked in the door.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:26:05 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Every Thread a BYJ Thread (http://www.byj.co.kr/)!)
To: PUGACHEV
I think the issue here with some of these comments, and with the protest by Mr. Asante is the believe that Africa isn’t diverse in it’s racial make-up. Not all African’s are ‘black’ African. My point was that, while not ‘white’ as some argue, or even what we call black African, Egyptians were also African, not matter what racial ‘shade’ people want to label them as.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:27:47 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(Fred Thompson\Zell Miller '08 - Give the Dems and Terrorists Hell !!!!!!!!!!)
To: joviju
Bingo, that was what I was trying to say.. Africa is a very diverse continent.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:28:50 PM PDT
by
mnehring
(Fred Thompson\Zell Miller '08 - Give the Dems and Terrorists Hell !!!!!!!!!!)
To: bedolido
No, you're all wrong! He wasn't white or black. He was Korean! LOL!
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:29:27 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Every Thread a BYJ Thread (http://www.byj.co.kr/)!)
To: NativeNewYorker
69
posted on
05/21/2007 1:30:14 PM PDT
by
ishabibble
(ALL AMERICAN INFIDEL)
Comment #70 Removed by Moderator
To: bedolido; SunkenCiv
Good Grief! It sounds to me like a bunch of goons with way too much time on their hands.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:33:52 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: bedolido
it suggests the ancient Egyptian king was white. The guy who played the Egyptian Pharoah in "Night in the Museum" was white.
72
posted on
05/21/2007 1:35:45 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(It is reminiscent of the world-famous Jewish conspiracy, now extended to also include Jews.)
To: Tamar1973
Remember, during the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign, when the Kerry campaign tried (with her cooperation, I might add) to pass of Teresa Heinz Kerry as African because she had been born and raised in Mozambique (or was it Angola)? Certainly fooled U.S. African Americans, all right. NOT!
Yeah, that was another in a long series of self-inflicted wounds for the Kerry campaign. They deserved every one of them.
73
posted on
05/21/2007 1:36:17 PM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
To: Tamar1973
Remember, during the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign, when the Kerry campaign tried (with her cooperation, I might add) to pass of Teresa Heinz Kerry as African because she had been born and raised in Mozambique (or was it Angola)? Certainly fooled U.S. African Americans, all right. NOT!
Yeah, that was another in a long series of self-inflicted wounds for the Kerry campaign. They deserved every one of them.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:36:21 PM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
To: Captain Rhino
Sorry for the double post.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:36:52 PM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
To: jackspratnonfat
Unfortunately, the death mask isn’t in the exhibition. The Egyptians won’t let it out of the country.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:38:32 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
To: Captain Rhino
Remember, during the 2004 Presidential Election Campaign, when the Kerry campaign tried (with her cooperation, I might add) to pass of Teresa Heinz Kerry as African because she had been born and raised in Mozambique (or was it Angola)? The irony is that culturally, Mrs. Kerry probably was/is more African than most African-Americans because she actually born and raised there.
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:39:20 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(Every Thread a BYJ Thread (http://www.byj.co.kr/)!)
To: Disambiguator
*intentional misspelling, okay? Sheesh.
jew meen entenshunul?...;^)
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:40:13 PM PDT
by
litehaus
(A memory tooooo long)
To: mnehrling
If the colors have stayed true over the year, they seem very representative of most North African nations we see now. And other paintings plainly depict Black, sub-Saharran Africans (but as servants, not as part of the ruling class)
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posted on
05/21/2007 1:45:43 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI">Open Season</a> rocks)
To: Tamar1973; GOPyouth
A high school student (in KS, IIRC) applied for a school scholarship for African-Americans. He was born in Africa, and was a naturalized American citizen. His skin lacking the melanin content of most urban youth, he was suspended from school because a high-melanin-content girl was “offended”.
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