's Bronx Zoo is apologising for racism in the zoo's past, including putting Ota Benga, a central African man, on display in the Monkey House in 1906.
"In the name of equality, transparency, and accountability, we must confront our organisation's historic role in promoting racial injustice as we advance our mission to save wildlife and wild places," officials with the Wildlife Conservation Society said in aThe officials with the society cited two instances of "unconscionable racial intolerance," including the treatment of Mr Benga, a young man from the Mbuti people of what is now...
, who was put on display for several days in September 1906. They noted that outrage from Black ministers "brought the disgraceful incident to an end."Mr Benga went from the zoo to an orphanage in Brooklyn and then to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he worked in a tobacco factory. He died by suicide in 1916.
The conservation society officials also condemned the "eugenics-based, pseudoscientific racism" promoted by two of its founders, Madison Grant and Henry Fairfield Osborn Sr.Eugenics, a movement promoting selective human breeding to weed out characteristics seen as undesirable, had many adherents in the early decades of the 20th century and was influential in shaping Nazi policies.
Next we in Australia's will have to say sorry and feel bad about what happened in England in 1562.
Nice photo of a man holding a chimp. Nothing else to see here.
if they only have pictures of white men then they will call that racist
So if it was a white man holding a monkey it would be ok. You can almost make some association with everything that could be used as racist. The point is 99% of them are not. We react far to easily for no reason. Coon cheese is coon cheese nothing more
1906 🤦♂️
Just ridiculous
Your joking face reality
Y Y This is natural & just beautiful ? 9newsaus
Whats the apology for Cant a black man be in a photo now
He's holding a monkey though... The picture doesn't say 'this guy is a monkey', it says 'this monkey being held by this man is a monkey'. If it were a white man holding a monkey, would that be considered racist?
I,d be apologizing to the monkey..
Bit racist to apologize.. Its almost as if they think theres some connection between the animal and the man..
In 1906 geez
This?
Gross, how dare they.
Lol...are African tribes going to apologise for genociding other tribes in the most brutal ways possible ?
People apologising for what their ancestors did is ridiculous in the extreme. How far back is too far? Why is it based on skin colour alone? not actual lineage? Do all people of the same colour have to apologise when other people who have the same skin colour do bad things?
Apologies for what and why
Why? This is ridiculous. Must we now pretend that reality and fact and history cannot be accepted if it offends?
Everyone offended by this is dead.
It was 1906 jeez. Look forward
Apologize for what ? How ridiculous !
this has gone way to far ....
Sins of long dead people, this bullshit does not seem to end.
Why would they apologise for 'eugenics based, psudeo-scientific racism'? Does that imply that they approve of other types of racism? Anyway what is the matter with eugenics? That's the best way to approach life instead of dysgenics.
The one on the left or right ? 🤔
Lol were those Zoo officials alive in 1905 What a bunch of dickheads
ExSecular White crimes are beyond civilisational and no apologies can make up to what they have done to indigenous tribes and people of every country they colonised.
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