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Re: Eyes on Mesopotamian Glory
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Eyes on Mesopotamian Glory
By STEPHEN KINZER

Published: January 6, 2004


HICAGO, Jan. 5 — Until last year, few Americans felt drawn to museum shows featuring Mesopotamian antiquities. But the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in April focused new attention on this ancient civilization, and its glories are now the subject of two lavish shows.

The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, which has one of the world's richest collections of these antiquities, has opened a new hall to display them. At the same time, museums are clamoring to mount a traveling show about Mesopotamia that has been assembled by the University of Pennsylvania.

"I've been amazed at the response," said Richard Zettler, a curator of the University of Pennsylvania show, "Treasures From the Royal Tombs of Ur," which has extended its run in Philadelphia and will go on the road again later this year. "The pictures you see on television these days don't present the most positive image of Iraq, and this presents the other side. People get a sense that something happened there that is very important for the history of humanity."

...I have to point out again that the Oriental Institute was the site chosen for installing our Shumirum by the Arts Council of Chicago and it was the site rejected by Nimrod as having too many Blacks around it. This is what ouir leaders have always done...keep us weak and snivelling and crawling to them or running away, screaming in the night. ZOWAA is a passle of unemployables and others who seek resume enhancement...these people come to the Heritage looking for what will benefit them personally...they come to give nothing...including Narsai David. That last name added to their list makes me saddest of all. Sad because I believed he was different...and I still believe he was...he just got devoured by his own need for recognition...recognition...recognition...and that left him open and vulnerable to be used by them. Had I been as interested in using Narsai I could have gotten anything I wanted out of him...instead I told him his ugly truths and he turned to those who flattered him.

...Itīs odd...we all want reasons to be proud of being who we are, but donīt see how we undermine any possibility to have REASONS in the modern era to be proud. My one consolation is that people will come to see Nimrod and the rest of them for just what they are...even after they die...and this will be their one real legacy and it will be a most fitting end to their inglorious careers "serving" us.

...shame on us. Shame on us all.



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