And another sexist cover that shows everything by showing nothing. This one even has charming racial undertones.

The black guy is bending forward, shoving his crotch in the girls direction. Notice the subtle bulge in his pants. He has a pure white (innocent) suit, golden cane (necklace and belt buckle), but his chest is naked and muscular. You can’t see his face - so he is just another faceless blackmen.

The girl: very white, blonde, skinny and just at the edge of womanhood. Her legs slightly spread, she wear high heels and lipstick.

The image story is a visual lineup starting at her opened mouth, going to the cigarette in her hands, to the lit match in the black guys hand and ends at his crotch bulge. It’s a very oral setup, implying a fiery blowjob, where there is none to be seen.

I wish graphic artists would use such brainpower for more interesting subjects.

Not everybody grows up with the perfect (grand)parents and in a perfect time. But that’s not important - what’s important that you want to change the presence for a better future.

We all have family members that have weird or simply terrible opinions and convictions. But we can’t be held responsible for that - only for our own actions.

“Keep it up Joe, one day you might even become President!”

BBC 4 / documentary / 3 episodes each ca. 1 hour

This is what I would consider basic knowledge or better say insight what happened in recent history.

I can recommend watching all parts - but number 2 is especially important, because it shows that Racism was one of the driving forces in America that swapped over to Europe (again) in a scientific disguise and supported the old idea of the Masterrace, which suited the Nazis perfectly.

Part 1: The Philosophy of Racism

Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.

Part 2: Scientific Racism

Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.

Part 3: Modern and colonial Racism

The third and final episode of Racism: A History examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century. By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa. Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation.

Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century’s greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule.

In modern mass media the number of positions and role models for black people is still very limited: you can dance, you can sing, you can be funny and you can fight. That’s about it. There are hardly any black characters out there with some depth or complexity.

At least blacks can play themselves these days - and no longer white guys in makeup. We still have to see more Hamlet or Sherlock Holmes in black characters - and less anger, music, sex play and violence …