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[QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [qb] Of course this therad is being reduced to another mindless picture spam war. Yet it still does not change the relevant point I made: [QUOTE]Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: [qb] ..I mean really how can one look at the tomb painting and not conclude it was depicting black people?? How? I wonder what was going on in their heads as they blatantly lied to the world??[/qb][/QUOTE]The psychology of white-wash was explained various times before, but I think it was best explained by Philip Emeagwali, the computer science genius from Nigeria. Emeagwali was one of the forefathers of high-speed internet processing. In an autobiography Emeagwali wrote: "[i]Twelve years ago, a magazine hired a white man to prepare an illustration of a supercomputer wizard riding an ox. I was supposed to be the supercomputer wizard. But the white illustrator, who knew that I am black, portrayed me as a white person in his published illustration.[/i]" [IMG]http://emeagwali.com/speeches/black-history-month/emeagwali-chicken-and-the-oxen-analogy-for-massively-parallel-supercomputers.jpg[/IMG] [i]The first draft of a portrait that depicted Emeagwali as a supercomputer wizard driving a carriage powered by thousands of chickens (a metaphor for his 65,000 weak processors that performed the world's fastest computation). The "Negro Emeagwali" (shown in this illustration) was rejected and replaced with a "Caucasian Emeagwali" (shown below).[/i] [/QUOTE]A small circulation University publication from 20 years ago The situation is not that simple. If the original illustation was accepted it could be construed by some as a racial competition, the figures as symbolic even though that might not be a correct interpretation of the intent of the illustator. It also gives a first impression of a white man coming up aggressively behind a black man with a whip and at first glance has a connotaion of a slave master even though that might not have been the intent of the illustator. The solution would be to change the illustration in some way. However they picked the wrong worst solution and made a black man into a white man [/QB][/QUOTE]
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