I like to think that Billie is watching and is happy with some of the makeup colors that I chose for her
Billie - I apologize if you hate them
That reminds me of the story of when a guy approached her after she performed in a club, and said some racist sh*t. Apparently, she just punched him in the face several times and left graciously
There is also the story of when a man said something to her, and she responded by throwing a chair over his head.
This is my favorite.
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Ota Benga was a Mbuti (Congo pygmy) man, known for being featured in a human zoo exhibit in 1906 at the Bronx Zoo. Benga had been purchased from African slave traders. He tried to return to Africa, with no success.
Benga fell into depression and committed suicide in 1916.
When Benga, a teenager, returned from an elephant hunt in Congo, he found that his entire family and village had been slaughtered by Force Publique, the private army of King Leopold created to enforce rubber production quotas.
He was kidnapped by slave traders and put to work.
In 1904, Benga was "freed" by an American missionary and amateur anthropologist Samuel Phillips Verner who was under contract from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to bring back pygmies to be part of a human exhibition at the fair.
A Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout, WWI.
The trench soldier had to cope with millions of rats. They were attracted by the human waste of war – not simply sewage waste but also the bodies of men long forgotten who had been buried in the trenches.
It's possible that he used the skins to make patches for repairs to uniforms.