Joel Kontinen
In 1904, the African pigmy Ota Benga (1883-1916) was put in a in Bronx Zoo, to show his affinity to monkeys .
Here’s what Darwin said racism in his book The Descent of Man;
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes. . . will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.” (vol. 1, p. 201).
Here's what the BBC says about Ota Benga:
Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited. Journalist Pamela Newkirk, who has written extensively about the subject, looks at the attempts over the decades to cover up what happened to him.
The zoo’s apology comes in the wake of global protests prompted by the videotaped police killing of George Floyd that again shone a bright light on racism in the United States.
Why did not the angry protesters take of the statue of Darwin, who seems to be the case of all racism in the USA.
In 1904, the African pigmy Ota Benga (1883-1916) was put in a in Bronx Zoo, to show his affinity to monkeys,
Outrage from Christian ministers ended his incarceration, that was ended after 20 days. The zoo’s apology comes in the wake of global protests prompted by the videotaped police killing of George Floyd that again shone a bright light on racism in the United States.
Why did not the angry protesters take of the statue of Darwin, who seems to be the case of all racism in the USA?.
Source:
BBC News. Caged Congolese man: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise BBC News 27 OCTOBER
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