bartmann and racism

So i actually remembered to google sarah bartmann today. I couldn't really find a clear cut image that i felt portrayed her accurately. This leads me to believe that bartmann was completely normal looking. White european men were probably just fascinated by the physical anatomy of African women and labeled them as freaks simple because they couldn't explain the differences between European and African women. It's a shame really - how racism is so closely intertwined with world history. I've taken dozens of history classes throughout my life and every time we touched on the subject of racism in history, the same theme came up - man will fear what he does not know. Seems pretty ignorant huh?