Tutankhamun Conspiracy Of Color

I have one comment for Mr. Clegg, choose your battles wisely.


LOS ANGELES - US black activists demanded Wednesday that a bust of Tutankhamun be removed from a landmark exhibition of artefacts from the Egyptian boy king’s tomb because the statue portrays him as white.
The face of the legendary pharaoh, who died around 3,300 years ago at the age of just 19, was reconstructed earlier this year through images collected through Cat Scans of his mummy, found near Luxor in Egypt in 1922.
But Legrand Clegg, a historian and prosecutor of the Los Angeles area city of Compton, is demanding that the bust of King Tut be removed from the show because its rendition of his face is a ”distortion of reality.”
“They have depicted King Tut as white, but the ancient Egyptians were black people,” he told AFP.
We do not need modern scientists to reconstruct the bust and tell us what to see. Do not deprive black children of their heritage,” Legrand said in an appeal to organisers to remove the likeness from display.
“There is no evidence that King Tut was white,” Clegg told city officials at a public meeting last week. “Egypt is on the continent of Africa.”
Clegg maintains that the inhabitants of ancient Egypt were descended from the black Nubian people that inhabited that country and neighbouring Ethiopia.
He said his group would protest as long as there was a ”suppression of black history,” that he said was “conspiratorial” and “has to stop.”
Clegg said his drive was supported in his quest to have the bust removed by the Compton branch of the powerful National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

From the Khaleej Times.