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[[File:Ota Benga at Bronx Zoo.jpg|thumb|Ota Bega in the Bronx Zoo]]
[[File:Ota Benga at Bronx Zoo.jpg|thumb|Ota Benga in the Bronx Zoo]]
'''Ota Benga''' was a [[Pygmy|pygmy]] man dehumanized by [[evolutionary racism|evolutionary racists]] and placed on display alongside an [[orangutan]] at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. This incident reveals the potential for [[racism]] under the [[theory of evolution]] propagated by [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name=CREATIONRESEARCH>{{cite web|url=http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/30/otabenga.html|title=Ota Benga: The Story of the Pygmy on Display in a Zoo|author=Jerry Bergman|format=HTML|accessdate=2008-07-07|publisher=Creationresearch.org}}</ref>
'''Ota Benga''' was a [[Pygmy|pygmy]] man dehumanized by [[evolutionary racism|evolutionary racists]] and placed on display alongside an [[orangutan]] at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. This incident reveals the potential for [[racism]] under the [[theory of evolution]] propagated by [[Charles Darwin]].<ref name=CREATIONRESEARCH>{{cite web|url=http://www.creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/30/otabenga.html|title=Ota Benga: The Story of the Pygmy on Display in a Zoo|author=Jerry Bergman|format=HTML|accessdate=2008-07-07|publisher=Creationresearch.org}}</ref>