What was the original country of Ota Benga?

Never heard of him, what a sad and tragic life

Our capacity for cruelty, hate, and intolerance of anyone or anything different from our own is truly inhumane and without justification!!

fergiethefrog, If he was “exhibited “ in this way at St. Louis in 1906 following capture by slave traders it pretty much make a mockery of American abolition of the slave trade 40 years earlier

When I learn of atrocities Iike this I am ashamed to be Caucasian! Where did white men get the notion that they are superior to anyone else. Advancement? Surely people who are content with their status quo are superior at an entirely different level.