https://medium.com/@DavidDWrites/you-probably-shouldnt-go-see-ridley-scotts-pretty-racist-exodus-movie-37471c4d7628 … 1) he’s right 2) there’s a whole history of white scholars insisting Egyptians aren’t black
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En réponse à @sarahjeong
See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_race_controversy#Historical_hypotheses … for just a few of the bizarre imaginings of racists who can’t imagine black people built cool shit
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And yes I know “black” is a social construct but take a gander at Egyptian art, you have to be fucking delusional to think they were white
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Got to walk around the Egyptian wing of the Met earlier this week, spent most of the time ranting about how nutty racist historians were
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there are so many paintings of darker-skinned Egyptians brutally slaying lighter-skinned Hittites
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it’s not some mysterious artistic choice to portray themselves with darker skin
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Then there was part of the exhibit where they “reconstructed” a wig using hair ornaments that were excavated (wig was long gone, duh)
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THEY USED A WIG WITH LIGHT BROWN STRAIGHT HAIR. I CALL BULLSHIT, MET.
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they had a photo next to it of the sculpture / model they based the “reconstruction” off of. granted, it was not in great shape.
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but that hair looked very black and very curly to me. almost like… natural black hair? for fuck’s sake, Met. for fuck’s sake.
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