Ota Benga was literal "human zoo"

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I know what's it like being a human zoo. Having lived in Mexico, it is an unreal - and irritating - experience to be daily remarked at and literally pointed at in public. Look, a blacky! You'd think I was eight feet tall or an other worldly visitor to the deep primitive jungle. Maybe I was.


 But a 'walking zoo' that had it world's worse than me was the African "missing link" Ota Benga whose degradition, incidentally, also came in North America. And, yes, he actually lived at the Brooklyn Zoo! It is one thing to be awestruck by someone who looks different or novel; it is another thing - and rude - to be openly critical of that individual's normality. In the end he took his life with a bullet to the heart.