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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by sportbilly: [qb] One more thing, if you ever get in contact with these shoddy propagandists. Ask her why she refuses to use the skin tone the Egyptians used when they made his sculptures and paintings? Instead of playing this retarded game of, "But we don't know what color he might have been." We know, and so does she.[/qb][/QUOTE]That is a big question I want to ask Jablonski or someone else ask! What reason do we have to "guess" about his color when we have several painted depictions including his painted bust! Which leads me to another thing that upsets me greatly-- Why the hell is the Nefertiti bust so prized over that it is over-shown and displayed and now even [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=005625]fought over[/URL], yet you hardly hear a peep let alone even see the painted bust of the most famous ancient Egyptian of them all, Tut?!! :mad: Or maybe I am just asking questions that I already know the answer too, but I am just to angry to admit it! :( [QUOTE][qb]People like her use all kinds of BS rationalizations like, "Well, the pale-skinned depiction of Tut is accurate, because he was royalty, so he would have spent most of his time in the royal palace, out of the sun." Funny, the Egyptians sure didn't seem to think that about him. They thought he was dark brown under all circumstances. So why the continuance of the denial then?[/qb][/QUOTE]The funny thing is that Jablonski's works were cited on numerous occasions on this thread mainly in that since the first humans were sub-saharan Africans they were of course black and the same is true for the first humans to leave Africa and colonize Eurasia and the rest of the world. Now, what is so hard about admitting that Tut and the Egyptian people, as a population who [i]never left Africa[/i] were also black?! The whole "they were somewhere between ebony black and lily white" is a huge and hilarious (if not frustrating) cop-out. [QUOTE][qb]After so many years of claiming the world is flat the Flat Earth Society now has to admit they were wrong. Worse, that they'd been lying. I know the peolpe on these boarsd have been fighting the good fight awhile but I hope you'll continue to be patient. Until recently I was one of those folks in the, "Maybe the Egyptians were a "blended" ethnicity." But unlike me these people were supposed to have based their scultpure off of exhaustive "research." To me that research seems to consisted entirely of watching The Ten Commandments.[/qb][/QUOTE]Yes, flat-earth society is a perfect label. [b]LOL[/b] What you have are people who are desperate to keep the 'old ways' or traditions of Eurocentrism. [QUOTE][qb]Most laypersons haven't seen Egyptian scultpures or wall-paintings. They haven't seen the Egyptian tomb paintings showing egyptians next to Caucasians and the way the Egytians clearly distringuished their skin tone from the whites. Most people still think the Egyptians were showing themselves as having really, REALLY dark tans. I'm a pretty smart guy (okay, I like to think I am!) but almost all of what I knew (thought I knew) of ancient egypt came from movies and novels written by the very people who ardently pretend that the earth is flat. It wasn't until VERY recently that I began to look into it with anything approaching more than a casual glance. Guess what I found, the depictions the Egytians left of themselves didn't look like some "blended" ethnic group (the new term many whites who still resist saying "black" are trying to use as a "compromise" term in the hopes critics like me will get off the "Tut was black" assertion) the depictions were defninitive, and the inescapable conclusion is that the Egytians were Africans of Ethiopian origin. Granted my "research"came almost entirely from pictures and sculptures they did, but what else do I need? When I took the ton of evidence the Egyptians left of themselves, how excrutiatingly throrough they were in documenting themeselves and everyone around them, I had to throw out the white, Cecil B Demille version of AE. BTW there's a scene in the Ten Commandments when Nefertiti is being carried by presumably Egyptians on a litter, and the guy out front of blonde! :D [/qb][/QUOTE]Eurocentrism is perpetuated through propaganda, see [URL=http://www.egyptsearch.com/forums/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=005624]here[/URL]. [QUOTE][qb]Pressure MUST be applied to National Geographic, Time, whomever, that the dabate is over, was over the moment the first European looked at all those dark skinned people. Playing the game of, "If their skin is obsidian-black then they're just whites with a tan," is through. The naysayers who have tried to put forward the sham of Egypt not being black are ginally realizing the jig is up.[/qb][/QUOTE]Unfortunately National Geographic actually started out as a racist publication of a Eurocentric view of the world and its cultures. Although it has gotten alot better over time, they still have some ways to go. A perfect example of this would be their genographic project where they labeled the E3b paternal lineage as "Near Eastern" in origin even though it originated in Africa! [QUOTE][qb]I'm convinced beyond all measure the Egytians were mroe than "dark," they were black. I just can't square the hair of a nubmer of them. Where's they get that stringy hair from? [/qb][/QUOTE]What do you mean by "stringy" hair, and to what specific individuals did you come to this idea? Most Egyptians had curly to wavy hair. And many shaved their heads and wore wigs sometimes from plant fibers. I hope you don't use mummy hair as an example since, the hair form, texture, and sometimes color can be altered from the embalming chemicals used in mummification let alone thousands of years of corrosion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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