A Black girl in the enclosure of a human zoo: Brussels, Belgium, 1958.

    by maazkazi

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    1. Parking-Track-7151 on

      At the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair (“Expo 58”), Belgium built a “Congo Village” where Congolese men, women, and children were displayed in a reconstructed “native” village behind bamboo fencing for white visitors to watch, photograph, and hand things to over the barrier. Historians widely describe this as a human zoo and call it the last major one in Europe.

    2. Imagine being that young, being taken away your family, being paraded like that, the confusion and the fear… oh to be black.

      To think we are still fighting to be treated human to this day!

    3. Fuck. I knew things were bad in the 50s but this is another level, this shit needs to be taught about more

    4. AWholeNewFattitude on

      What kills me, 1958, 58….not that long ago at all, a frikkin human zoo, that your grandparents could have attended

    5. Argentinotriste on

      Europe being Europe. They used to discriminate against Black people.

      Now they persecute Christians and patriots.

      They never learn.

    6. Emergency_Date_1153 on

      wow people are commenting ( humans are the problem f those people In pic) etc but If something as bad as this happens In a non white country people would be commenting that country Is a shit hole and they would say all kinds of racist stuff towards current generation of that country but since this Is about Belgium a European country humans are at fault not white people but humans hypocrites!

    7. The fact that human zoos still existed in Europe by 1958 is horrifying. Shockingly late.

    8. 13th amendment allows for legalization of human zoos for profit in the United States 🇺🇸

    9. The white supremacist loves to tell the lie that they “civilized the world”. The reality is that through their contact with the rest of the world, they ended up becoming civilized themselves

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