Scandalmakers

Tut v. Franklin

It’s the dog days of summer and things have clearly slowed down around here, with SD’ers in various foreign places enjoying themselves. Nothing jolts us up out of our slumber faster, though, than learning about the protest of the curators of the King Tut exhibit, currently on view at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

While any museum protest would be of interest to us, this one is particularly interesting as the organizers are claiming that curators of the exhibit have intentionally made King Tut whiter than he in fact was. Their demands are as follows:

Demand 1
The Franklin Institute must make a Public Apology for not properly representing King Tut as an African in the Golden Ages Exhibit and thus falsely representing KMT (Ancient Egypt) as non-African .

Demand 2
The Franklin Institute must develop and display a Historical, Factual, and Scientific Exhibit of the African foundation and identity of Dynastic KMT.

Demand 3
The Franklin Institute must Display the Pioneering Accomplishments of African Nile Valley Civilization in education, architecture, social organization, art, industry, etc.

Demand 4
The Franklin Institute must document and display
the great research and accomplishments of Cheikh Anta Diop in scientifically proving that KMT was indeed an African civilization.

As important a discussion as this is, we’re still more interested in proving, once and for all, that Black Bart is cooler than Bart.

Tags: postcolonialism, protests, theft