Chicago teacher protests white-washing of Tutankhamun (And it don't stop, Naw it won't stop... It goes on and on....)
Kia Gregory writes, " For Mukasa Afrika , it’s another blow in a continuing assault. "In June 2005 National Geographic magazine featured the reconstructed imag e of King Tutankhamen on its cover. The headline read: 'THE NEW FACE OF KING TUT.' The young pharaoh had light eyes, a pointy nose, thin lips and a golden caramel hue.... “The mummy itself is evidence that King Tut is African,” he says. He adds that paintings found in king’s tom b show he had deep brown skin . Also the kin g’s 18th dynasty descends from Thebes , located in the southern part of Egypt , making his family lineage African. He also points to the famous golden mask in which the king has almond-shaped eyes, a rounded nose an d full lips.... "He questions why scientists didn’t use a melanin dosage test or a DNA test for a truer picture of King Tut’s African identity. 'It’s mo re about money than racism,' Afrika says of the museum’s 'Golden Age' exhibit. 'If they had ...