Everybody now seems to agree that yes indeed slavery and colonialism happened, yes indeed the white man has treated the black as subhuman and that now it’s time to forgive forget and move on, as Wangari Maathai rightly put it in regard to colonialism. I tend to accept that too. But every time I am almost forgetting, then I come across another story, either carried by the world media, or featured by Wikipedia, or even sometimes by accident in my usual Googling, that yet reminds me that back then it was as   horrible.  This time, it was a story carried by BBC reminding everybody about Ota Benga, the unfortunate boy from Congo of pygmy origin who was very unlucky to be captured by an American hobbyist and taken to America to show the rest of the white world his missing link between apes and them. He was also apparently mistaken for a cannibal because his teeth were filed sharp in a ritual ceremony, which was then very common in Africa. Because of that Ota Benga was caged with an Or