wow i learnd something new! heard about him, but never knew much! good post!

first! sorry couldnt help it lol

wow.good post

I just LOVE Concrete Loop! Black History usually consists of the same people everywhere it is acknowledged. Althought everyone that we are traditionally educated about did phenominal acts to contribute to the freedoms and liberties we take for granted, it is really good to learn about other aspects of our history as well. I learned something new. Keep up the great job CL!

I meant “Although”.

Would a black person ever do this?

The answer is no, because whites are evil, and we’re not. I hope that whites understand that blacks are not the ones who have to prove that they’re great people. But whites have to prove that they’re great people. Because they’re still doing a great deal of evil. And I’m wary of them, they have to prove that they’re not like that.

Be proud black people, don’t ever feel ashamed to be black. For you have no continuing legacy of bringing evil and hatred into the world, the whites do. It’s time that we start understanding what a great people we are.

OMG! Those images alone are striking. Thanks J. Dakar. I think your coverage is amazing! And kudos to Angel.La for recognizing that.

Uh…you sound a bit hostile there #4. Lol.

Very enlightening post J.Dakar. Man, i love being black. I love our skin, its tone and texture. i love how we look. The feel of our hair, I feel that blacks are the most soulful, most spiritual, and most artistic race that exists. There’s just something different about us compared to other racial groups. Being black is a blessing from God. I believe that to the fullest. Mos def.

We have so much history, a legacy! We should be inspired by our past and use it as motivation to excel beyond the stereotypes society places us in. If you’re angry about it, turn into positive energy and use it to your advantage.

Im sorry but if i was white i don’t know what I’d do. Probably shoot myself. (Statistically speaking.)

I’ve been coming to concreteloop for about a year now. I like to look at the site ,but I never comment; these Black History post are just phenomenal. I would never find out about these people while going to a predominately white school. Black History Month is a bunch of BS. If schools and other scholarly institutions wrote about this stuff it would be so meaningful and beneficial to young black people (and anybody else, for that matter). Keep up the good work man.

finally taking in some real education…

class dismissed!!

CONGRATS CL! You are uplifting your people…..remember knowledge is power once one is ignorant he or she will always be in the dark.

CONGRATS CL! Uplifting your people…..knowledge is power and ignorance leads to darkness.

Apart from learning something even I - from South Africa - didn’t know, I’m taking away Dr. R. MacArthur’s word: “The person responsible for this exhibition degrades himself as much as he does the African.”

Great post, welll done CL.

keep it up.

I have learned something new today. Thanx CL !!!!

@4 that was a extremely racist comment. OH BY THE WAY BLACKS ARE CAPBLE OF EVIL. Have you forgotten about The D.C. Snipers(black) The Genocide that has happened in Rwanda.The Genocide that’s happening in Darfur right now. Evil has no skin tone. any race is capable of evil acts. now i think about it race shouldn’t be in the equation, people are capable of evil. I have no shame at all at being black but i think it foolish to say it’s not within us to do bad things….am i wrong for feeling that way?

Thanks! I never knew this story. It’s so sad.

Go CL!

i think it should be a school requirement to seriously about other peoples history other than white and black. other races have rich and beautiful culture as well

*i meant to seriously learn about

Good Post, I never knew about him, its good to learn about someone different in Black History.

Beautiful, beautiful post concreteloop.
We all have to learn about our history, whether it’s good, bad, black, white, yellow…
But don’t selfsegregate using the excuse that ‘you were forced to do so in the past’.
No, our ancestors were forced to do so.
See, there’s nothing wrong with being proud of being black. I am.
But there’s EVERYTHING wrong with calling every white man evil.

PS, that was for #4.

I love this post, and I admire that this site is teaching us things that we may never get from a text book.

Thanks for this post. Wow my heart breaks when I read stuff like this. I appreciate it though things like this keeps my mind fresh of the cruelties we have overcome but at the same time endure.

Not that EVERY white man is evil, but ANY person who(white or black), makes a person feel ashamed for being born who they were, a HUMAN with the African blood running through them.

I have never heard this story, and it was very interesting. Keep this up!

It is so encouraging to so that someone is really dedicated to spreading the
word about our WORLD history. Thanks for this and past history posts—
keep it up and I’ll keep on reading.

#17 post

Again, stories and the real life situations of African persons such as Ota Benga or Hot-n-Tot Venus are extremely sad. Especially considering that both performers were our community’s early black superstars- performing and entertaining Europeans (for a little of nothing OR for free). Yet, after all of their entertaining both performers ended up in a cage. SMH.

Good look on this post

I LOVED THIS POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, wasn’t he basically an African-American after all that?

Wow I never knew about this either. this was a great post and I love the way you post about things that are not normally included in black history month. Great Job J.Dakar

Intriguing.Can’t get this kind of information everywhere.People need to know their history in order to know who they are.

Good CL!

Very Crazy, Love this Black History Spotlight!

iI DEFINITELY GIVE CONCRETE LOOPS THEIR PROPS FOR FINDING BLACK HISTORY INFO LIKE THIS…..I THINK I MAY HAVE HEARD ABOUT HIM BEFORE…THIS IS GREAT INFO….WE NEED MORE BLACK EDUCATION LIKE THIS…KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!

Keep bringing this history to light. Thanks CL. You guys are really do it big.

Very good information! Something that I have never heard before! That’ s a good look CL!

AMAZING!!!! I love learning new stuff. That was so interesting. He was so tiny. Someone should do a movie about him. Wow, I’m speechless.

I LOVE CL. I usually come here and read, but never feel obliged to comment. This story however, and the many others that you tell in this section are more than enlightening. There are so many people, myself included, who just have no idea and this forum really does provide a supplement to what is currently out there. Thank you CL, for not only providing us with the usual celebrity fodder, but for actually seeing the need out there for to educate us all. we cannot know ourselves truly, till we know and understand our history.

Keep up the EXCELLENT work. This right here is responsible journalism!!!

I agree with #32, this really does need to be made into a movie.

very glad J Dakar is writing for this site, the education of the history of black people as well as current news and affairs is so important and he does it so well. the sad reality is even though things look better to the human eye in terms of now compared to then, shit is still the same. we are all oppressed mentally (through manipulation of government and corporations) if not physically (those thrown in jail for absolute bullshit). education is really the only way to take your mind back from those who own it and hopefully then we can have a true revolution where people are manipulated into charity, education and loving one another instead of worshipping materialism which makes them rich and us trapped in their machine.

Concreteloop thanks for posting this!! I grew up in Lynchburg, VA and I NEVER heard this story until now….I guess it’s like E. Badu says ” They be tryin’ the history, but they know who we are..”

keep new black history facts coming CL!!! Very interesting

Wow, what a really good post. Thanks

Wow. Enlightening. I love your posts J. Dakar.

Very interesting indeed…
There’s a tribe in Namibia (Africa) who still crack their teeth like that. They are called himbas. I used to be very afraid of them when I was growing up. But apparently there’s a reason why they do that.

Please do a black history post about something better than this…i really don’t want to know about a midget that played in monkey cages…what’s uplifting about that shit.

Excellent post!

Keep up with these post PLEASE. I love reading them and pass them on to the my co-workers.

What a captivating story that was,it makes me very thankful for the little everyday things i take for granted. We have such a rich deep history,and i love tha CL is exploring it.

Amazing post. Keep up the good work.

love it! thank you! i love to learn new things about my history. CL is the best!

Very interesting!!! I so love the fact that CL is posting information such as the black history facts other than what in the hell some celebrity is wearing or doing!! Not that there is anything wrong with that because you know “we” meaning black folks would have never learned who was playing Lil’ Kim in the movie about Biggie’s life on TMZ, or the “other” folks websites, blogs, whathaveyou!! Our people need to know our history and interesting facts such as this instead when the latest jordans are coming out on what Saturday!!! Knowledge is power and it is one thing that no one can take from you!!! Be informed People!!!

i dont understand why he killed hisself

This story is great!!! Keep ‘em coming

I wish I wish I wish I wish Angela and CL there were more people like you. In the midst of all the BS in the world and pop culture you continually expand our minds and feed us with information entertainment (unbiased and opinionated at times). But I just love that you guys even exist!!!!!!! So thank you….

Learning and being enterianted at one destination is so convenient and uplifting. I check on you through out the day.

even though the demographic is different Perez’ and all other pretenders to the crown better watch out for the LOOP we commin…………..

——————-HE GOT SHARK TEETH LOL

#43: I’m sorry you feel that way.
Ota Benga’s story is a shocking display of the inhumanity that exists in this world
and highlights Western pride and human exploitation.

Ota Benga did not “play” in monkey cages. He was put on display, housed with a gorilla, an orangutan, monkeys and chimpanzees.

Samuel Phillips Verner’s grandson, Phillips Verner Bradford, authored The Pygmy at the Zoo and described the scene: “Nearly every man, woman and child of (the) crowd made for the monkey house to see the star attraction in the park, the wild man from Africa. They chased him about the grounds all day, howling, jeering and yelling. Some of them poked him in the ribs, others tripped him up, all laughed at him.”

Again, I’m sorry you feel that way; in fact, I feel sorry for you.

Peace and blessings,
J. Dakar

Excellent. I love this segment. Keep it comining. We were in dying need of this type of information in this format. Excellent!

Thanks CL for this post. Thank you so much.

@#4,

Not just white people are capable of evil or evil period–anyone is capable of evil. Any race any gender. And i’m sorry, but if your not from Africa with African parents, no Black person here in America is 100% black. Massa was in your Ancestors slave quarters just like everybody else.

There’s a program that comes on PBS every year during Black History Month called “African American Lives”. It’s hosted by Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and he follows and finds out the famiilty trees of many celebrities and this year he picked a non-celebrity to trace thier family trees.

It’s very interesting because he found out that everyone of them had alot more percentage of European ancestry in them than they ever imagined. So before you start saying that all white people are evil, if you already haven’t,check your heritage and family tree to your great-great-great granparents and so forth to see if your 100% Black/African.

This gentlemen on this show is so bad, he can trace all the way back to what African tribe they decend from. He even found for some people the slave trade papers of their ancestors. For Tom Joyner, he found the name of the slave ship his great-great-great grandfather was on. Amazing!

Again, thanks CL for posting info like this. This stuff just is not taught in most schools.

TThats is so sad Thanks CL i didnt know about this.

Wow! Great post. I’m so glad that you all are putting Black History in your posts now. IDK if it’s the computer I’m on or what, but alot of times the comments and parts of the post gets cut off. Am I the only one having this problem on CL?

Thank you so much for bring this story to light! These are the stories that we need to hear.

@54 well said J, its ok hopefully she’ll get it

maybe she justs need a tutor

Very Interesting…Way to go CL, for educating us on our history.

NNever heard of this.. I care about stuff like this much more than how many times Beyonce wore the same dress. That picture with the teeth was extreamly sad. God bless him

there is no black history !

there is a African history, a Congolese history, a black-american history.
there is a human history.

Am guessing the gun was provided by a whte man, so sad and should have never happened. Its a shmae coz he just landed in the wrong hands. Lets not forget that some white pple did help black people and educate and look after them Not all white people are bad people as much as not all blck people are ghetto.

GREAT READ!! This is why CL is head and shoulders above other blogs

Angel…I absolutely ADORE u for this!

Well damn!

This story simply broke my heart…

Thanks for the post

i’ve never heard of this story. i love that you guys are taking these things to a new level. i’m a bit tired of hearing about the same ppl over and over again as if there were only 10 important ppl in black history.

1 question though. why did he shoot himself? was he just trying to “escape” his life?

Jesus this is sad and brings tears to my eyes. It hurts so much to know what are ancestors went through. Their lives were torturous and I can only pray that one day people of African descent will LIBERATE ourselves, as Bob said, from the mental chains of slavery. Even though this hurts me to the damn core, Thanks J. Dakar and Concrete Loop.

wow. I love CL. Yall make a point to educate as well as entertain. yall r great.

Fantastic post, Concreteloop. I love it when you all address REAL issues! Great work, Angel!!!

dang…he got dat lil wayne grill

These stories, while making me sick and sad, are necessary to know…