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Wake up Black American, We Must
Stop the Theft of Our Black History
Subject: Wake Up Black America, We Must Stop
The Theft Of Our History
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Source:
http://www.blacknews.com/pr/clegg101.html
For the first time in nearly thirty years a major exhibition featuring a
prominent
Black African is touring the nation. "Tutankhamen and The Golden Age Of
The Pharaohs" opened in Los Angeles
in June of 2005. After remaining there for five months, it was on display
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from December
2005 through April 2006.
The exhibition opens at Chicago's Field Museum on May 26 of this year. Thus
far organizers have made millions
of dollars as throngs packed museums in California and Florida.
In Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale, scores of Black people, wearing
T-shirts exclaiming "King Tut Is Back And
Still Black," and carrying signs depicting the king as well as his Negroid
parents and siblings, picketed the
opening of the exhibit. They were protesting widely published renditions of
the pharaoh as White. National
Geographic went so far as to describe King Tut as "a North African
Caucasian."
Fred Shaw, president of the Compton, California branch of the NAACP,
stated: "Here we have an opportunity to
expose our children to a world renowned Black figure, who was not a rap
artist or athlete, and the mass media
depict him as white."
In a local exclusive, the Los Angeles Sentinel headline read: "First Jesus,
Now King Tut: Local Leaders Fight
Society's Efforts To Whiten Africa's King Tut."
The exhibit features over 130 artifacts from the tomb of King Tut. All of
them depict the King as Negroid. Nevertheless,
in the last room of the exhibit, officials have mounted three photographs
of white skinned busts of the boy pharaoh.
Outraged African Americans have referred to these photographs - based on
CT scans of the king's skull conducted
by scientists from Egypt, France and the United States in 2005 - as
"modern makeovers." A similar CT scan was
conducted in 2002 by a group of scientists from New Zealand and Britain.
They depicted the young king as decidedly
Negroid.
The current controversy surrounding the racial identity of King Tut is the
latest in an ongoing effort by Black scholars,
scientists, religious and political leaders to resurrect the true history
of Black people. In denying African Americans
our cultural heritage, White historians, anthropologists and archaeologists
have removed Black people from ancient
Egypt, Egypt from Africa and Africa from world history.
Yet, the truth is there for all to see. The language of the ancient
Egyptians was African, not Indo-European, Semitic
or "Afro-Asiatic." The hieroglyphic images and symbols employed by the
ancient Egyptians are native African in origin,
not Asian. Moreover, ancient Hebrew, Greek and Roman eyewitnesses
overwhelmingly described the ancient Egyptians
as Black Africans. In Genesis 10:6-7, the Bible categorizes the Egyptians
as Mizraim, one of the sons of Ham, the
father of the Black race.
King Tut was born into the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt. According to many
authorities, this was the greatest royal
family in human history. The dynasty included Queen Ahmose Nefertari, "the
most venerated figure of Egyptian
history;" Queen Hatshepsut, the first prominent woman of history; King
Thutmose III, the world's first great general;
King Akhenaton, "Father of monotheism" and many others. They ruled a great
nation that was the super power of its time.
According to William Flinders Petrie, the "Father of modern Egyptology,"
King Tut's extended family originated in Nubia,
the Black nation south of Egypt. Their mummies appear to confirm Petrie's
conclusion. Furthermore, sculptures and
drawings of King Tut's father, King Amenhotep III, his mother, Queen Tiye,
and his brothers, King Akhenaton and King
Smenkhare, have been described as decidedly Negroid by numerous
authorities.
It is time for the world to recognize that King Tutankhamen was a Black
pharaoh who ruled a Black nation during the zenith
of ancient African power and influence. As African Americans, we should not
tolerate the whitening of our history. It is an
insult to the memory of our ancestors, a deprivation of our children's
birthright and an indictment of our generation if we fail to act.
Source:
http://www.blacknews.com/pr/clegg101.html
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