Spectacle: The Astonishing life of Ota Benga was written by Pamela Newkirk, which talks about a quarter of a million New Yorkers who gathered around the Bronx Zoo to observe a young African named Ota Benga who was exhibited in a monkey house cage.Protesters such as William Sheppard, a Presbyterian missionary, Reverend MacArthur, a pastor in Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, and Wilford H. Smith all fought to free a 103-pound and 4-foot-11 Ota Benga. While 500 people at a time came to the monkey house and to mock Ota Benga. A way successful way for the Bronx Zoo to honor Ota Benga is to build a memorial for him to show their sincere apology and to join the “Black Lives Matter” movement because after more than a century later, the continuation of incarceration on these young black males for petty crimes and the mass of police shootings on these men has been an alarming issue lately. By doing this they can show empathy towards the black minorities in New York.
The Bronx Zoo in New York needs to have a remembrance of Benga by creating a memorial to show that they are sincerely apologetic for the way they Benga. “Benga became the object of pointing …show more content…
“But Grant’s leading role as a cofounder of the zoo would be overshadowed by his influential book The Passing of the Great Race which advocated cleansing America of “inferior races” through birth control. antimiscegenation and racial segregation laws and mass sterilization”(Newkirk,43). This shows that the zoo believed in racism because one of their cofounders wrote a prejudiced book on white supremacy and the elimination of “inferior races”. This gives a bad image on the Bronx Zoo, by joining the “Black Lives Matter” movement they can show that they don't believe in being
The Bronx Zoo in New York needs to have a remembrance of Benga by creating a memorial to show that they are sincerely apologetic for the way they Benga. “Benga became the object of pointing …show more content…
“But Grant’s leading role as a cofounder of the zoo would be overshadowed by his influential book The Passing of the Great Race which advocated cleansing America of “inferior races” through birth control. antimiscegenation and racial segregation laws and mass sterilization”(Newkirk,43). This shows that the zoo believed in racism because one of their cofounders wrote a prejudiced book on white supremacy and the elimination of “inferior races”. This gives a bad image on the Bronx Zoo, by joining the “Black Lives Matter” movement they can show that they don't believe in being