There are some things that I simply cannot understand. The current King Tut exhibition that is touring the US is catching flak from African-American groups because the portrayal of Tut is too white. Jesus jumped up in a sidecar Christ. Listen to the NPR story. You will hear a "scholar" of some sort saying that when school kids coming out of the exhibition were asked where Tut was from, they didn't say Africa. Imagine that.
Have you ever looked at reproductions of the tomb paintings in Egypt? Did you ever see the black servants and slaves? Notice that they are portrayed as having different skins tones from the Egyptians? Apparently there are Afrocentric "scholars" who have not and still think they are qualified to make arguments. These are the same "scholars" who a few years ago began to agitate for the position that Hannibal and the Carthaginians were black. Somehow, they are equating all of Africa with a black race. I'm stunned at the -- the -- sheer -- stupidity of it.
And why does NPR not rat these people out instead of giving them air time?
I sound like a 1960 reactionary in Mississippi, don't I? I just want people to stop using false scholarship to support a weak (or ludicrous) position.
Sigh.
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