Human Zoo
Debunking Racism — what fascism truly looks like
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This Short Novella is meant to unravel America’s rooted racism — though I can’t promise to fix systematic injustice nor can I depict precisely where America’s racism takes its root. I’ll try my best to put the microscope where needed most and maybe one of you may find the information you need to take my studies further.
Brian Allen
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White supremacy is rooted within the social class of American life with science footing the bill. In the 1860s following the published work by Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species ( or more completely On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection).
Many white folks began to believe William Henry Johnson (or Zip the Pin Head) was the missing link between man and monkey henceforth establishing and simultaneously solidifying the social class in America, by their justification and the now refutable claim that Johnson was evidence that negro people were of the lower order and proved by science. Promoted as living proof of Darwin’s’ theory of “the descent of man”.
The St. Louis World fair was the most visited location in the entire United States amassing 19 million visitors annually. Organizers gathered indigenous people from around the world to be put on display as a human zoo. The man behind the human experiment was anthropologist William McGee, one of the nations leading scientists and President of the American Advancement of Science at the time. He strongly believed Darwin’s’ theory of survival of the fittest and thus the social class of America should not be diluted with lower-order men that sit so close on the evolutionary ladder of species to that of apes and monkeys — one particular group of indigenous people that came to fame as the missing link between man and monkey were the Pygmies — a small nation tribe from the Congo (now the DRC — Democratic Republic of the Congo”).
Visitors at the world fair were told that the species were captured in Africa and described as a race of beings found swinging like apes from trees and branches. The museum staff went as far as telling visitors that the species has been pronounced by science as the missing link between African blacks and lower animals. The man displayed as such was an African American named William Henry Johnson who spent the majority of his life on public display as proof to Darwin’s’ evolutionary missing link, oftentimes in a cage.
“No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it seems you cant soar as you might otherwise.”
-Marian Anderson
In the 1880’s “KRAO” was promoted as living proof to Darwin’s’ theory of the descent of man, displayed as the link between monkey and man. Studies found that this young lady had a rare genetic disease called hypertrichosis a disease that over secretes hair follicles.
In 1903 McGee was asked to oversee the anthropology department for the worlds fair where he presented the story of human evolution in which he classified Negroes and many indigenous as lower stages of the Human race. This way of thinking reflected the popular mind state of the anthropology community and American society at the time. Darwin’s’ theory enabled this way of thinking because it proved to the mainstream audience at the time that black people were biologically inferior and white people were biologically superior. Africans were subjected to be treated as mere animals based on the authority of science.
Pygmies were considered to be the lowest form of life on the human evolution — a group of said pygmies was transferred from the Congo with no decree to the humanity of these people against the fact that they spoke a lick of English and were incapable of effectively communicating with their captors. They were taken by force by Samuel Phillips Verner with heavily armed men then after classified as sub-human types more closely to apes than any other variety of Homo-Sapiens (the lowest form of humans). In 1906 Ota Benga was kept at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, he was then moved to the New York Zoological park (or the Bronx Zoo), where he was placed on display with a Chimpanzee in a cage at the zoo’s monkey house (Sep.8 1906). The sign on the exhibit reads:
“ The African Pygmy, “ Ota Benga.”
Age, 23 years. Height, 4 feet 11 inches.
Weight, 103 pounds. Brought from the
Kasai River, Congo Free State, South Cen-
tral Africa, by Dr. Samuel P. Verner.
Exhibited each afternoon during September. “
Quarter million people came to see the exhibit that week, which also brought controversy at the dehumanized spectacle,
“ the person responsible for this exhibition degrades himself as much as he does the African — instead of making a beast out of this little fellow he should be put in school.” — Rev Robert Stuart MacArthur ( Pastor of the city Calvary Baptist church ).
The ministers demanded he is taken off display and are offered education and seek to convene with the higher-ups for help but the democratic mayor refused to meet with the ministers as he was an openly racist man who despised Negroes and refers to anyone born of a different race “Mongrels”. The mayor wrote a book titled The Passing of the Great Race, which was praised by Hitler and used as his bible. Ultimately Ota Benga was moved to an asylum where he shot himself to death 10 years later. Ota Benga expressed his desire to return to Africa but the African continent was being ravaged by European powers during world war I in 1916, therefore, making it impossible for him to return home. The loneliness pushed him to take his own life — confused and alone in an unfamiliar world he had fallen deep into depression. By 1921 there were even further social Darwinian practices throughout America. Eugenics the study of breeding better people. Created by Charles Darwin’s’ cousin as the self-direction of human evolution, embraced by the American science society and its elites which grew supporters from top research institutes in the US from Harvard, MIT, Yale, Ohio State, Smithsonian, University of Texas, and UC Berkeley. The American museum of natural history gave the eugenics society an exhibit which garnered support from many official and private entities including the American Red Cross, the exhibition pulled over 10,000 people that placed human groups under a microscope in an attempt to judge their worth in the overall cog in the wheel of society. Eugenics viewed people who weren’t white as lower races, it also deemed Blacks, Mexicans, Hispanics as lesser than and unworthy beings to modern society. This after-all was backed by Darwin’s’ theory of evolution, forced sterilization, and a Eugenics Record Office was formed that declared your decree to mate and marry was deemed by your family tree. In 1932 the third international congress of eugenics debuts its exhibit for public display, opposed by the religious groups in America they faced a backlash from groups such as the Christians, Catholics, Baptists, Protestants. In 1930 Pope Pius XI condemned eugenics for betraying the dignity of humanity as spiritual creatures made in the image of God rather than an economical vanity, yet the eugenics movement was responsible for over 60,000 forced sterilization throughout the US. In Nazi Germany more than 300,000 people were forcefully sterilized, then after in an enraged campaign against humanity, Nazi Germany gassed the disabled people of the state which led to the perfection of many execution styles which was later used to wipe out millions of Jewish people living under Nazi rule.
We cannot forget the past — we cannot say it louder, we must not sit idle, silent, we cannot forget the past of scientific racism and we cannot forget that Darwinism promoted a base for the scientific argument which led to the support of racism. Failure to remember the past means failure to prevent the past.
The abuse of science must be taken seriously and Darwin’s’ theory of the origin of species must be classified as an abuse of science and justification of racism that existed long before Darwin. Darwin’s’ work layered the foundation for Nazi Germany to justify their supremacy over all races which justified their execution of Jewish people in their minds they died holding on to a theory of white supremacy.
“To the future, we’re all souls living the human experience, love your brothers, love your sister, love your neighbors”
