On november the 9th, the first of a daily series of broadcasts begins telling a story about the approaching white man and his generic slaves (known as Petes.) This year we have been told that not all the Pete's will be black. A spokesman described it as being more like 50 shades of grey (with a few blackface people). The white establishment feign cluelessness.: because it should be known that even one person in blackface is offensive and totally unacceptable. But in addition to this, there is an added pain. Anti-black racism includes the concept that the more whiter a person is, the more acceptable they are. It created division within black community because in the days of transatlantic slave ownership, it often meant the difference between preferential treatment from the slave owner (the difference between pure misery and SLIGHTLY better circumstances.) In some twisted way, making the slaves a collection of different shades (including making some Chinese, some Asian) as has happened in some television programmes in the Netherlands, adds another dimension to the racism (that the white man is lord over people of various colours.) And there is something really worrying about preserving the black Afro hairstyles on these slaves. Every year the cinema's show a blackface film- this year, the slaves have Afro hair and soot smears instead of complete blackface on their faces (which doesn't make sense because their clothes are completely clean. It reveals the insincerity behind the changes. Last year the Dutch Children's Ombudswoman declared that the blackface phenomenon is discriminatory: she did this after speakers at the 20th European Network of Children's Ombudspersons Conference (in Vilnius, Lithuania) openly criticised the racism in the Netherlands. The Dutch state still hasn't taken active steps to eliminate this racism- and are still subsidising it. Mayors are still publicly involved in blackface parades, and national television still televises these blackface parades. International pressure is needed to shame the government into doing the right thing.