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Black men all over the world should be angered by that one. It does seem very racial to me.

Black men should be angered by being shown as having black skin?

Nice try. Black men should be angered for being portrayed is such a likeness as SO CALLED missing links. You have to admit, the imagined similarity between the artists imagined rendition is very telling of the mindset of the artist in question.

No, as being portrayed as the lowest form of human in the line of evolution. Darwin taught that species would evolve upward. By portraying blacks as low man on the totem pole (apparently consistent with Darwinism) they (evolutionary artists) are saying not as highly evolved as whites. Darwin, while he personally did not want them mistreated, provided an open door for racism against whomever even in very the titling of his book The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection , or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. While less racist that some of his followers, Darwin still seemed to believe in the superiority of white Europeans: ""I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit.... The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world."

Still, some of his followers took it even further. Thomas Huxley stated ""No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried out by thoughts and not by bites." Along those lines, justifying his actions upon evolutionary theory, the world was "blessed" with the likes of Adolf Hitler. Hitler believed that blacks were predominantly ape and Jews were close to full ape. Hitler believed the theory about blacks because of Darwin.

So, while Darwin may have not have been a rabid racist himself, his theory provided perfect soil in which the roots of the most hideous kinds of racism could grow. Before you say the Bible promoted slavery, I would say the Bible really didn't make a judgment call on slavery and certainly never said certain people should be slaves upon racist grounds. In the Jewish law, a certain arrangement was set up for slaves, but also an arrangement where they would be freed. Paul, recognizing the situation at the time in Rome in which slavery was widely practiced encouraged Philemon to free Onesimus, his slave, but did not demand he do so (he did do some serious arm twisting). You can't justify racism based on Scripture. But racist ideas have flourished in a Darwinian atmosphere, and drawings such as the ones we typically see of evolution, reinforce the idea.