Yesterday’s article in the Black History Month series discussed the caging of the Mbuti Congolese man named Ota Benga. Today, I will discuss how the zeitgeist, or intellectual feel of the times, may have played a role in this atrocity against humanity. Often times, when one thinks of racism and inequality, a vision of “rednecks” [...]

Welcome to the Freak Show! Come one, come all see the man 8 inches and four feet tall! I imagine that the propaganda used to advertise the caged Ota Benga was similar to the text above. Ota Benga was a pygmy from the Mbuti tribe of Congo that was put on display in the 1904 St. [...]