Nuts protest Tut

AP/Seattlepi:

A traveling exhibition on King Tutankhamun drew about 50 protesters who denounced the popular display as racist.

Molefi Asante, a professor of African-American studies at Temple University, led the demonstration Sunday outside the Franklin Institute, claiming the exhibit has no mention of Africa and that it suggests that the ancient Egyptian king was white.

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This is weird. Why would you have to mention that Egypt is in Africa, when no one disputes that fact? As for Tut's skin shade, it is highly probable that he was white. Most Egyptians are. This silly protest reminds me of the African-American studies professor who told his class that Cleopatra was African-American. Boy did he get that wrong since America had not even been discovered when she lived, but she was not even African-African. She descended from Greeks who had conquered Egypt at the time of Alexander the Great. I guess her hyphen designation should be Grecko-African.